P.S. What's the best route in to this kind of 'career'?! Asks Eddy. Now I see why you started the thread.
Military transports have loadmasters as flight crew, in the civilian world the express fright shippers do not and the long haul types increasingly rely on outsourced help - there will be a loadmaster supplied by the handling agent(s) at departure/arrival but not traveling with the aircraft. I would expect any flight crew loadmaster opportunities to be filled by those already employed by the airline who handle the cargo on the ground - paying their dues as it were to a flight crew position. A loadmaster will receive absolutely no training whatsoever in flying the aircraft and at times, as others have stated, basically has to live onboard the aircraft for numerous trips getting food and sleep between loadings. If interested in the job you're going to have to make inquires with various freight airlines to ask them about it.
Last edited by cvg2iln; 6th Mar 2006 at 21:04.