Ah, got it. For us, it is the takeoff warning horn and for the same reason. It is loud as all get out, but we pilots are just conditioned from a young age to ignore it. Kind of funny, because it is one of our abort criteria on initial takeoff.
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First flight of the P-8A Poseidon and all things related to transition
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It is all in the name of keeping it off the shelf and saving money. We have all the same switches in the E-6, they are common to the display system and GPWS in the commercial 737.
You don't see too many 737s doing touch and goes. At least, you didn't used to.
You can get that in the Hornet too (same place), but it is normally just a good reminder to go baralt hold/ATC and stop being a dumb dumb and descending/decelerating in the bolter/WO pattern. IIRC it happens for us below 175 kts with some amount of descent rate present.
Lotta hate here. Is it because all the single anchor guys barfed and refused the non-flying acquisition jobs?
The P-8 has been a model acquisition program. It has come in ahead of schedule and has not exceeded any budget thresholds. It has also stayed neatly out of the public eye, in part due to the law of JO thermodynamics applying to the F-35 debacle.Lotta hate here. Is it because all the single anchor guys barfed and refused the non-flying acquisition jobs?
I understand that there are probably shortcomings in the airframe, but in the grand scope of things, this is the one that the Navy did right. They took a low risk approach to modifying an off the shelf product and it has worked extremely well.
For all you F-35 fans, I understand that they had to invent a new airplane, etc, but those Super Hornets are looking better and better the longer this thing gets drawn out.
Our guys saw what happened to the Nimrod MKIVs and the Brits MPRA community (ie the A in MRPA now means Merlin helicopters...only) and went hmm....maybe don't fuck this up...
Lotta hate here. Is it because all the single anchor guys barfed and refused the non-flying acquisition jobs?
The double anchors did it right in the back. The systems can do some pretty incredible things on station, but you also have to consider that a P-3/8 NFO knows a great deal less about actually flying the plane than say a Hornet/Growler FO.
My favorite thing to do to a new NAV was to tell them we had a Prop pump 1 light on number 1 after we had shut it down for loiter. The terror on their faces... Oh I'll never get tired of that.
Not exactly true. BAMS-D is the five currently flying Navy Global Hawks.
The "D" is for Developmental.
Saying BAMS is like saying JSF, it's the program, not the actual air vehicle.
Triton is the follow on program to the BAMS-D.
Think F-17 and F-18 except we are actually deploying the F-17's (the BAMS-D) we had before we actually got an F-18.
I learned all this when I heard there is a move afoot to bring a BAMS-D to the Master ASW Base (as. Proof of concept) in the near future.
is it really that bad?
Hence the adage: "Never fly the A model of anything."
Some P-8 shots I thought I'd share, taken above Boeing Field:
US NAVY P-8 Poseidon, Georgetown playfield, Seattle by longbachnguyen, on Flickr
US NAVY P-8 Poseidon, Boeing Field, KBFI, Seattle by longbachnguyen, on Flickr
US NAVY P-8 Poseidon, Boeing Field, KBFI, Seattle by longbachnguyen, on Flickr
US NAVY P-8 Poseidon, Boeing Field, KBFI, Seattle by longbachnguyen, on Flickr
US NAVY P-8 Poseidon, Georgetown playfield, Seattle by longbachnguyen, on Flickr
US NAVY P-8 Poseidon, Boeing Field, KBFI, Seattle by longbachnguyen, on Flickr
US NAVY P-8 Poseidon, Boeing Field, KBFI, Seattle by longbachnguyen, on Flickr
US NAVY P-8 Poseidon, Boeing Field, KBFI, Seattle by longbachnguyen, on Flickr