Shouldn’t that be An Air Loadmaster ?
And it’s only the ones with a current DG rating that are true Gods.
But they can be the most important crew member – if only cause they can wake the pilots up.
For 4HP – no
cause it’s not a “snipe”
The last bit is scarily true – one of my previous lives was doing this and on at least one occasion I averted “disaster” cause when I got back to the pointy bit after a smoke I really woke the crew up.
For an idea how many hours WE had done - it was on a DC6 - not many can sleep on a cargo 6
