I have so much to say here but will keep it zipped for the good of the industry. 99.9% of the Atp's should have caught this before it was any factor at all with a simple check, which you can be sure UAL has now added to the manual. We can all just give a nod of the hat to Bill Boeing and happily go whistling down the street.
I still get a chuckle recalling a story told to me years ago by an A320 FO. He said he had worked his way up through the ranks the hard way. He was once a freight dog down in the Caribbean on a DC-3 outfit. His first day on the job the left seater informed him his job was to go back to the tail wheel shock and keep an eye on it. They would fork in freight until the rear shock compressed to the width of four fingers!........that was the weight and balance.......lol.........I miss the old days..........
