Trapped Fuel and Oil Weight as a Fraction of Take-off Weight

The trapped fuel and oil is considered unusable to the aircraft . In the program, the weight of trapped fuel and oil is expressed as a fraction of the take-off weight in the following fashion:

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For most aircraft :

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0.5%

Note that for electric powered aircraft this fraction is the trapped oil weight as fraction of take-off weight