OptaLoad is a stand-alone application based on OptaPlan’s Weight & Balance. One of its many features is the necessary pre-flight calculation of the Load&Trim as well as Shear&Bending sheets as a function of aircraft configuration and loading. Administrators have the ability to define aircraft configurations starting from a clean A/C by instantiating load items and store aircraft configurations in the database. Based on these preconfigured configurations, Load Masters are then able to set-up mission-specific load scenarios.