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02-14-2009, 02:52 AM
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That amazes me. Gotta be a nice fee for American.
02-14-2009, 03:43 AM
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Wow, had no idea passenger airplanes could transport cars like that.
They didn't have someone to accompany it?
That's very cool, does that make you like part of the crew?
They didn't have someone to accompany it?
That's very cool, does that make you like part of the crew?
02-14-2009, 09:00 AM
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I don't know what the charge is, but American like all airlines makes a fair amount of money moving cargo around. The one thing the airlines can't move is hazardous cargo due to the fact we have passengers "upstairs". It is amazing sometimes to see what we move around. Another interesting load is money, actual cash. I've been there when we carried around 50 million dollars to Puerto Rico. The plane is met by an armored truck. I hoped one of the boxes of cash would fall off of the belt loader and no one would notice it, but it didn't happen.
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02-14-2009, 09:04 AM
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It is amazing sometimes to see what we move around. Another interesting load is money, actual cash. I've been there when we carried around 50 million dollars to Puerto Rico. The plane is met by an armored truck. I hoped one of the boxes of cash would fall off of the belt loader and no one would notice it, but it didn't happen.
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Did they put lots of GPS tracking devices on the plane so you don't accidentally fly to another airport. Say to a country without extradition treaties.
02-14-2009, 11:04 AM
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That is really cool, had no idea.
02-14-2009, 11:06 AM
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Good scoop Pete and thanks for sharing...fly safe!
02-14-2009, 11:35 AM
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The weight and balance calculations are done before every flight by the "load" house in our headquarters in Dallas. As the baggage is checked in by passengers it gets weighted and put into cargo bins. The load house knows the specifics of the cargo we are carrying. It all gets put into a computer and a load plan is produced that lets the baggage loaders know where each bin and piece of cargp needs to go in th belly. When I first saw the car they were loading it in the aft baggage door, but had to take it out and put it into the forward section, so there was probaly some change from the original plan. The 777 has a fairly wide CG envelope so loading can be flexible. In the old days on a 727 I remember a few times getting a message from loads just prior to pushback that we had to move some passengers around inside the plane to have the correct takeoff CG. Some people got free upgrades to first class out of that.
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