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From: mcgp1!flak@beaver.cs.washington.edu (Dan Flak)
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Subject: Re: Aircraft crewing requirements
Keywords: multicrew,aircraft
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Date: 20 Nov 89 00:50:25 GMT
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From: mcgp1!flak@beaver.cs.washington.edu (Dan Flak)

> Stephen Grant asked which aircraft currently held more than 2 crewmembers.

Let us not forget the "biggies":

   The C-130 typically carries a basic crew of 1 pilot, 1 co-pilot, 
      1 navigator, 1 flight engineer, and 1 loadmaster.

   The C-141 basic crew is 1 pilot, 1 co-pilot, 1 navigator, 2 flight
      engineers, and 2 loadmasters.

Basic crews can fly for 16 hours with autopilot operative and on a
non-tactical mission. Augmented (extra pilots on the C-130 and C-141,
and extra flight engineer and loadmaster on C-130), they can fly up to
24 hours during a crew duty day.

The C-5?? I've worked airlift out of Diego Garcia. We had a C-5 break
down there. Billeting was limited, so I asked the aircraft commander to
send all extra crewmembers back on a C-141, and keep only enough people
to preflight and taxi the aircraft. He sent home 16 and kept 12.

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