Originally Posted by
METO Guido
Not being judgmental, a job's a job. Just curious, how long does it take two dudes to roller jack, position & strap down a load of steering columns on something the size of MD80?
The majority of the time the customer provides laborers. You can often just tell them where to put the cargo and how to strap it. I have never had an occasion where only the flightcrew was available to load. Although we didn't have to load them there was a time when we arrived at the destination one hour early. In that case we could have waited for the load crew to arrive but chose to unload the 132 loose loaded semi tires ourselves so we could head to the hotel.
As I said in an earlier post we are planning on adding a loadmaster to all turbojet flights to free up the flightcrews time.
Jim