By my last count there's about 20 or so. They take up the first 20 spots on A line (25 spots per line), and have started on the first 4 or 5 of B line.
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T-6B Texan II enters service at NAS Whiting
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By my last count there's about 20 or so. They take up the first 20 spots on A line (25 spots per line), and have started on the first 4 or 5 of B line.
First time I've ever heard that . . .
Doesn't the Army do it like that?
Any idea if the contract pilots would have some experience in faster, more maneuverable, fixed wing glass cockpit - ejection seat equipped aircraft?
Many of the contract jobs on the market require so many hours in type, and a certain number of NVG flying hours etc . . .Typically this means they catch people coming off of active duty, in the reserves, or recently retired.
True dat. Glass cockpits are so nice because they are easier, IMO. Once you get the pages and the buttonology down, it's so much nicer.
How much faster does the T-6 typically fly? Wikipedia says Vmo=316, with typical cruise speed around 220. Sure, it's fast for a trainer, but even the mighty Orion routinely does faster than that; no need for fast mover time, unless I'm missing something.
During instrument flights in FO-land we did 240, sometimes 270.
Van
The Shipmate formerly known as AT2.
Yep, first class started Apr. 19 and flew May 18.
Thinking the same thing. I just wonder how long it going to take before we know how many peices of wood are in the T-6 or if indeed the frame is filled with lint seed oil as well.
I wouldn't know about that of course but the Air Forces Monthly piece says that ..."the transition team and senior leadership are looking at ways to save money by possibly adding a Strike Top-off phase."
It directly quotes a Lt Cdr from TW-5's FITU as saying...
"We might be able to download some flights from the T-45 to T-6. We're looking at stuff like TACTURNS, a 4g manoeuvre. The T-34 can't do that . We can start doing these early training sorties and save cost per flight hours in the T-45 strike pipeline. If we do that, and we are looking into that right now, then we are talking some significant savings."
There's a strike top-off phase in the MPTS already. Tacform in primary would have been fun.
Tacform? Hell, I would have been happy with CRUISE Forms. Those along with the combo maneuver PA flights have been cut from the syllabus. I flew cruise for about 5 minutes during F4005, and that was it. Having even a modest intermediate syllabus for tacair seems to make some sense. T34 to T45 has to be a monster leap.
Does anybody know why TW-5 expects the transition to the T-6B to take 5 years to complete? They're on pace for receiving 100 planes a year.
All of these things could already have been yours, if you gents had just gone to Vance. Cruise forms, 6G's regularly, Over the top stuff in formation....just go to the dark place and it will all be available to you...I got halfway to my Tac-Form checkride when they told me "good job...that was your last flight. Enjoy corpus."