Originally Posted by
MSPeconomist
Dumping fuel or flying around for a while to burn fuel before landing? there is a difference.....
Dumping reduces ful load much, much faster.
Circling is usually while they are running checklist to see if they can diagnose the problem or decide what course of action to take. Once the decision to return to TLV is taken, they then need to calculate how much fuel to dump to be under the maximum landing weight.