Orion Obsession; giving it up for the mighty P-3C

[Alpha_Echo_606]

110714-N-SP676-394 OKINAWA, Japan (July 14, 2011) A P-3C Orion aircraft assigned to Patrol Squadron (VP) 40 takes off from Kadena Air Force Base, Okinawa, Japan. VP-40 is forward-deployed to Okinawa from its home base in Whidbey Island, Wash. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Brian A. Stone/Released)

 

[PropAddict]

Ah, a/c 610. I knew her well.

 

[Kilo-Charlie-83]

EP-3E departing Nellis AFB in support of Mission Employment Phase 10A -jun2010

 

[scoolbubba]

Question: is it ugly enough for MB to fly/marry it?

 

[PropAddict]

I pity the poor upgrader who has to memorize the names and locations of all those antennas!

 

[Jim123]

I pity the poor upgrader who has to memorize the names and locations of all those antennas!

And any mnemonic to help with that has to meet strict PC/inoffensiveness standards

 

[MasterBates]

Dude, I'm a CAPC and I have no idea what half the antennas on the E-2 are for. I know what a V/UHF and UHF antenna looks like, but don't ask me which one is UHF-1 through 6.. I don't know, I don't care, and it's not relevant to me flying or fighting the plane.

This is one of the things that I like about the VAW community versus HSL/M (and my experience by proxy with VP/VQ in the VTs) Far less sillyness with memorizing shit that don't matter.

 

[CommodoreMid]

Probably goes in the stupid questions thread, but why do the EP-3 bubbas retain the old school 500 lb paint scheme after we went to the all gray on P-3s?

 

[Flugelman]

Probably goes in the stupid questions thread, but why do the EP-3 bubbas retain the old school 500 lb paint scheme after we went to the all gray on P-3s?

More cost effective not having to mask off all those antennas.

 

[Alpha_Echo_606]

I pity the poor upgrader who has to memorize the names and locations of all those antennas!

It's not as hard as you think, I could name most of them and I haven't worked that platform in 9 years.

 

[PropAddict]

Random pic request:

Does anyone have a decent rez copy of the semi-famous shot of the P-3 flying overhead, taken from underwater? Someone told me it was done by someone snorkeling off the approach end of the runway at Rosey Roads, but that may not actually be correct.

 

[HAL Pilot]

I can't remember if it was taken off of Rosey or Bermuda. I got a print of it back in the early 1980s from a friend in a Jax squadron who was in the same crew as the guy who took it. I posted a scan of it in the constatnly changin picture thread once upon a time but here it is again.

 

[KilroyUSN]

I might have the picture of a P-3 I was allowed to take from a periscope after I was selected for NFO. It's not the best of pictures, but I think its kind of cool from the opposite point of view.

 

[Alpha_Echo_606]

I might have the picture of a P-3 I was allowed to take from a periscope after I was selected for NFO. It's not the best of pictures, but I think its kind of cool from the opposite point of view.

Post it, lets see!

 

[statesman]

I still want to see the picture of the pilots purse hanging off the E-handle.