Why they wearing US style growbags then? Do they come with the aeroplane if you buy one?
I believe it's a 'warranty' condition, along with the need for the ALM to be there for the loading, which reduces the whole crews duty day. Don't know if there are plans to change SOP now we've bought them, but the danger of that re: flying suits is Boscombe will want one for 'what bits of a C17 does
our flying suit snag on'-type trials, which we really can't afford, despite our
official position of 'stretch, not overstretch'.