C-130J Loadmaster Application
weight and balance app Works for Android and Apple phones. Will work on your electronic flight bag (IPAD) if you have access to the APP store.
Application is easy to use and performs the following functions:
1. Weight and Balance, load planning. Ability to shift cargo and see new CG/CB just like you would on the CNI-MU or MFCD. Gives you a CNI-MU in your pocket so you can validate weight and balance, load plans, or pre-plan your cargo.
2. Load restraint calculator. Simply provide the weight of the cargo being restrained and input the chain measurements into the app. No need to memorize or write anything down. Provide the app with the data as you measure it will tell you your restraint.
3. Center of Gravity of Vehicles. Drive the vehicle on the scales, input weight of each tire and provide axle length. App provides the calculated CGFA, axle weights, and total weight.
4. PSF calculator. Calculates PSF for airdrops for paratroop door, ramp/door and platform minimum weights.
5. PSI calculator. Calculates PSI of objects. Just provide dimensions and weights.
Application will be built personally for each person. Login information to the application will be provided a few days after application has been purchased to ensure it is properly configured and tested with the purchaser's login information.
If you have features you want or need in an application, please reach out. It is possible that the application can be built to your needs.
Application is meant for reference or planning use only. It is not intended nor designed to replace technical data, flight manuals, policy, or publications.
C-130 Loadmaster Ramp Trainer
The Loadmaster ramp trainer is:
1. Easy to ship or transport (approximately 1500 lbs empty, not much larger than a standard 463L pallet)
2. Low cost
3. Simulates the ramp of a C-130 (same size and height from ground level at ADS)
4. Allows for forklift and K-loader load training (bare tine, palletized onload, practice with alignment of loader to ramp, etc).
5. Allows for container ramp load airdrop training (ramp bundles, LCLA, CDS CRL procedures, etc)
6. Allows for mistakes on a training device and lower utilization on actual aircraft
7. Is small and doesn't require climate controlled storage or hangar space like a fuselage trainers does
8. Easy to maintain and repair
9. Can be drained and transported via forklift and even by C-130 to a new location
The C-130 ramp trainer is simple and low cost but provides a low risk space for loadmasters to get repetitions with dangerous activities such as NVG baretine loading of an ISU-90 at night.
How does it work?
1. The base layer is a 463L pallet
2. On top of that are 16 55-gallon drums
3. The top layer is sheet metal that simulates the floor, tie down ring pattern, and rail locations for the C-130 ramp
4. Put it in location and fill the drums with water to add 7500 pounds of ballast weight to the base of the system.
C-130 Aerial Refueling Pod (Sneaky Pod)
The C-130 is capable of flying aerial refueling pods on the outer wing stations. A good bit of C-130 already have aerial refueling pods on these stations. The hydraulic reel and hose that is housed and operated inside of this aerial refueling pod weighs approximately 500 pounds and can be removed from the pod. What does this mean? Why does this matter? Removing the hose and reel system leaves a large, open, aerodynamic, and strong structure to mount equipment in it's place.
AESA radars, jammers, antenna, and other electronic equipment can easily be adapted to the refueling pod structure to provide an easily configurable location for electronic equipment that is:
1. Behind an aerodynamic shell (the refueling pod)
2. Outside of the aircraft cabin and away from avionics systems (if there are interference or radiation hazards)
3. Adaptable to the aerial refueling reel mounting structure (does not require aircraft modification or structural changes).
Are you looking to pick up a new capability for your C-130?
OR
Gain capabilities that do not change the external appearance of your C-130?
C-130 Cargo Loading
Everyone around the US Military is trying to create "innovative" cargo handling systems, replace forklifts with robots, and re-create the shape of the wheel.
If you want to learn how to upload and download pallets from a C-130 using only the equipment that you have on board the C-130, contact us.
The owner of 82 Innovations has created a simple, effective, and repeatable system that ANY C-130 unit can utilize.
Do you need to on-load or off-load palletized cargo in a location that does not have forklifts or handling equipment?
Looking to gain capabilities through training alone? No modifications, no specialized equipment, no maintenance of new equipment that serves one purpose.
We can help
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