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An essential element of bloodstock transport is groom expertise and experience. Instoneair can provide highly experienced, professional, fully trained, flying grooms from a pool, although these are usually provided by the shipping agent. All grooms are certified by the AATA and registered with the UK Agriculture Department, DEFRA..
Instoneair loadmasters travel on every flight.
They are responsible for:
- Pre-flight load planning
- Assembling the horse stalls
- Ensuring the horse stalls are secured to the aircraft pallets
- Loading the horses into the stalls
- Offload of horses / stalls
- Monitoring temperature / humidity during flight
- Dismantling of the stalls
- Disinfection and stall cleaning
- The palletisation of the stalls or the re-installation of the stalls in the aircraft, whichever is required
- Reporting any stall damage to the UK maintenance base
- Liaison with the shipping agent / exporter
- Reporting to the Instoneair Operations Centre