ABSTRACT
Aircraft Load Planning and Control is the result of a diverse group of activities, involving many different areas of an airline's ground and flight operations with the end result being the aircraft loaded in a safe and efficient manner. Load planning is the action where, given certain requirements or constraints, the load controller plans exactly where each piece of load allocated for uplift on a flight will be positioned on the aircraft. In the airline operations, load planning and control was performed by dedicated individuals at each port using manual load-sheets to calculate aircraft weight, and manual balance charts to calculate aircraft centre of gravity. The culmination of the load control process is a safely loaded aircraft and the accurate determination of both the aircraft weight, and aircraft centre of gravity. Cargo, baggage, passengers, catering, cabin services and fuelling all provide essential information for the load control process.
