This question
cannot be answered properly without the DOM. It transpires the JAA were
thinking of DOM when they wrote BEM, it’s just a bad question. What was
intended was available payload = MTOM - TO fuel - DOM
and they meant the sum to read
available payload = 5200 - 600 - 3000 = 1600
We have drawn this to the CAA's attention. They agreed that the wrong weight
was given and that it should have read DOM.
They have
suggested to the JAA that this question should be amended.
We would
expect to see BEM already modified to DOM in UK exams but possibly not yet in
other European countries.