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I already responded to the Op via PM, but I saw this thread and had something else to add. When I got into the guard after an 8 year gap in service, I reverted to CW2. It was a very easy step and the Army/Guard knew what they were doing. Due to some delays, budget issues, blah blah blah I was...

Full time Guard jobs are not easy to just hop into from active duty or the civilian world. They are usually reserved for proven performers already in the Guard. I was in the Guard for 3 years part time (M Day) before a good job opened up. And then,if I hadn't been one of the only people...

The lack of academic experience makes sense, except that it does work in the Army. College grads go through flight school right next to guys right out of the "fleet", er..desert. The feeling out of place might be something. In the Army, the WO is the norm in flight school. Commissioned officers...

WO1s and 2LTs come out of Army flight school (including AQC, which is the Army's FRS) pretty much identical. Afterwards, both get assigned ground jobs. The simple difference is that the warrants get programs to manage and the commissioned officers get people to manage/lead. If the Navy isn't...

We had a former Army Cobra pilot in one of my HSL squadrons. He was loaded up with chest candy and a damn good pilot too (of course). Could have been the same guy, but the guy I knew looked a bit older than us young bucks. (Ha! He looked about as old as I am now!) From my experience, the...

RIP, my fellow Swampfox.

So...you are saying this? "I lied to the Navy, saying that I am willing to drive ships for a living. I let the Navy train me and waste 18 months on me and now I am saying I want to go somewhere else. My immediate supervisors is insulted by this and the fact that I consider the career he has...

We pretty much call everything we do on deployment MEDEVAC...By the way, remind me what that "protected symbol" does for us. Perhaps it should be a red crescent, or something like that.

The price I saw on the delivery documents for the HH-60Ms I delivered showed the cost tobe about $13 mil each. This included all of the gear except some of the ASE equipment. The HH-60M can carry six litter patients, two crew or medics,plus two ambulatory.

Ouch! Did it yesterday in an HH-60M. No extended fuel tanks or wings of course. 150+ kt track and balance. Auto was at 2000' PA, 16800 lbs gw, and 115% Nr. About 153 kts at 100% Q on 701D engines. Lose the stupid bubble windows and HONTEK blades and we could add a few kts. Something like 1100+...

Noooo, that's what you are saying.:icon_tong

True, Army folks aren't as well versed at flight over water. True, night over the water is "crazy talk" to them. Their meat & potatoes is NVG flying low over the land. That night over the water translates into hard instrument time for land lubber aviators. They do not have the extensive night...

Lawman..he he he..the 60M Blackhawk has a rotor brake.

I can confirm that Army guys tend to brief rolling the aircraft. I asked about this in the UH-60 AQC and again when the Army guys were teaching me to land on a ship (thats a whole 'nother post). Both times they said, "Thats what the -10 says. Don't you know your EPs?" In actuallity, step 9 in...

Are you serious? The Beret is g a y! During the week, I wear a facility ballcap. On drill weekends I try to get by with the patrol cap. The Beret? Only when I have to. It is such a pain to get to look right. Then, if you actually wear it everyday, you end up folding it or smooshing it in a way...

I saw it twice down in WPB. It is actually a good looking aircraft.

??? The H-60? Or specifically the H-60S? Seriously, I loved ASW...when I was actually doing it. Now that I fly for the Army, I love flying the 60M. I have not done a lot of VERTREP, but if it is like Bambi buckets on a fire, I could see how that would be fun too. But the "most fun in a helo?"...

It could be worse. There could be a sequel to Firebirds. At least Top Gun was good the first time it came out (for its time, not by today's standards).

The 60M does not have a CAAS cockpit. See attached image for an idea what our primary flight display (PFD) looks like. The photo is very busy and is not representative of what we see all of the time. Many notices and symbols are present in the photo that are not normally there. The thing I...

Rumor is that the HH-60M is getting a new FLIR. We got a call last week saying it was coming. The 'when' part was omitted. Also coming soon is a software upgrade for the FMS in the next couple of weeks. The two new aircraft we picked up today did not have it, but people are scheduled to come out...

Kind of where my opinion was based. When I saw the picture I noticed a lack of attention around the room. One could even argue the soldier shaking his hand appears unenthused. Immediately questions began formulating in my mind. I asked myself: Were the soldiers not briefed to act attentive...

I didn't have a specific argument. I merely thought it was an usual photo for the front page of AKO. So many of the photos are cherry picked for good content. Why not this one? I am leaning more toward poor choice of photos/photographer. I think it less likely there was a total lack of...

Brett327,zab1001...Did you read my post? Did I say the picture meant anything specific? Go look in a mirror if you want to see a moron. What I find interesting or unusual is that someone would post a picture like that...particularly on AKO. As a professional media person, would you pick the...

This was on the home page of AKO (Army Knowledge Online) with the following caption: U.S. President Barack Obama greets U.S. troops at a mess hall at Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan, March 28, 2010. White House Photo by Pete Souza (Photo by U.S. Army) Does anyone else think it seems a bit...

I miss the piss cutter. In the guard, at least on drill weekends, we have to wear the gay black beret. That thing promotes esprit de corp about as much as a powder blue leisure suit. Now they got rid of our green zoomie suits! At least during the week we can wear either an ACU patrol cap (ball...

I hear vehicles running on biofuel smell like french fries. My flight suits all small like jet fuel and hydraulic fluid. I can't wait to come home smelling like I worked at Micky D's all day. (yes...that was sarcasm, in case you didn't catch it) Oh, and I thought the Green Hornet comment was...

Wouldn't you hate if people formed an opinion of you based on Joe Sailor stationed on an oiler? Saying aviation in the Army National Guard is like an adult CAP based on your view of an infantry unit in Oklahoma isn't what I would call wise. So you 'might end up there?' You don't think someone...

I am sure with an attitude like that you would get along famously in our unit. You do know 60% of the units deployed are guard and reserve don't you? Seriously, if you think that is what the guard is like, you need to stop by a guard aviation unit getting ready to deploy or returning from...

The only guys who bounced their tailwheel on the MK-26 missle launcher on our ship (and they did it routinely) were the HS guys...and the 46s never landed on our ship at night....Just saying.:icon_smil

Spot on. We got rid of our last A model a couple of months ago. It was a 1984 with Kapton wiring. Noone wanted it up until the end. No torque placards in it. No placards in the Ls or the Firehawk modded L I flew last week. No placards in the UH or HH-60Ms either. No Q placards in any of the...

(701/701C/701D) Contingency na/1940/2000 Maximum na/1890/1994 Intermediate 1543/1800/1902 Maximum Continuous 1251/1661/1760 The transmission limits are another problem.

Fortunately or infortunately, depending on how you look at it, our buddy start checklist is only in the MTF manual.

All true, although the #2 is also DC powered. However, #2 is powered by the #2 DC Primary, whose power is supplied off of the converters, which require B phase AC power (ie a generator running). In the M model, we get to see engine instruments during a battery/huffer start through the #3 MFD...

I am not sure what is going on sometimes in the tower there at NIP. We did a run (north to south) about 2 months ago. Just north of the centerline at 300' we asked if we could fly over the west edge of the river at the Buckman bridge (for fam purposes). We got permission. About a mile south of...

What about the dragon lady at Cecil? You guys may not "experience" her as much as we do, but of you roll off pad 3 so much as an inch without contacting her on ground, she gets angry over the radio.

highside7r, You got to get a look at the M model. It has way better moving map capability than the Seahawk (except maybe the Romeo). The /G capability will be out soon with a software upgrade, probably within a year. BTW, if any of you are going to be at the Flagler airshow in Florida next...

We do have moving maps in the M. But, keeping with the theme of outdated technology, we do not have a /G capable GPS until a software upgrade comes that provides a noncorruptible DAFIF and more than 99 waypoints. "Features" include: You cannot reverse a route. You can currently store only two...

You poor saps...working with such old technology! Join the 90s. We have a fuel burn rate calculator in the M model that is almost as powerful as a pre-iPhone cell phone. We even have four PCMCIA slots for up to 8 gb of data and maps.:icon_wink

It will probably get the FLIR, the PLS and the hoist from the HH-60M and lose the medical interior...ie no moving litter pans and no AMOGS. It will probably retain the gunners doors that are present on the UH-60M but absent in the HH-60M. Also, the 701D engines of the M will allow it to hover...

Any way around that? I can't respond to one of the PMs I received. I guess I could re-post this 13 more times.

I know I'll catch some sh-- for this, but I am going to say that otto does have a semi-valid point. People do learn better when they are not put under severe stress. For some, being yelled at creates severe stress. For others, being yelled at creates just enough stress to get them in their...

Yes, 100% Nr in UH-60A/L = 100% Nr in UH/HH-60M.

Ha ha ha ha! They were talking about that back when I was in the Navy..as far back as 1987. Don't get me worng. I hope it happens. But being realistic...it has taken this long just to get that version with the Hellfires. I know...we had a few aircraft that could shoot Hellfires back in the 90s...

OK, so looking through the 60A/L and the 60M MTF manuals, I get the following predicted auto RPM at 80 kts/GW 17,000 lbs: UH-60A/L 1000' DA 111.2% 8000' DA 119% UH/HH-60M (wide chord blades) 1000' DA 108.5% 8000' DA 117% What does this mean? Since I have no rate of decent data, it is hard...

The wide chord blades have the following characteristics: Increased maneuverability in hot/high conditions Increased lift (535 lbs at sea level) Increased level flight performance >19k lbs, DA > 8000' Anhedral droop of 20 degrees Inboard & outboard trim tabs 24.25" chord vs 21.75" 16.3 degrees...

On the ground (WOW) the automatic feature of the B/U pump (3 ones and a two) is disabled except for the accumulator low light and hydraulic leak test. In the air, the B/U pump comes on automatically under the previous conditions regardless of switch position. In our through flight checklist...

The simple answer is that the backup pump comes on under the 5 following circumstances: #1 Hyd pump fail #1 Tail rotor servo fail #1 Hyd resevoir low #2 Hyd pump fail APU Accumulator low (3 ones, a two and a poo) Instructor pilots will tell you those are the five lights that bring on the...

We have storm scope, which picks up strikes or cells (convective action), but no wx radar. Great for thunderstorms, but not much use for picking up non-convective precip. The FLIR is great. I just don't understand why they didn't spring for a system that doesn't require us to hang on to a big...

Ahhh...some confusion here. The tail indexer is not the gust lock. It is a cam that lodges into the crown assembly on the tail rotor, moving it to the proper position and keeping it from spinning when the pylon is folded. The gust lock on the Seahawk is a geared motor that engages the teeth on...

They do make a slight difference in sound. You can usually tell the difference between an A/L and an M out on the flight line. The difference is not as dramatic as on the video/link. Oh, and YES, the M has a rotor brake. After flying the Seahawk, that is one the thing I think I missed the most...