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  1. RobLyman

    The Great Cross-Country Thread: Rules, Regs, Destinations and Sea Stories

    Gotta love the last pickup and delivery mission we had. The mission was to pickup 2 new UH-60Ms at the factory in West Palm Beach, FL, fly one to Lakehurst, NJ and the other to Huntsville, AL. Then, pickup a new HH-60M at Lakehurst and fly it to Jacksonville, FL. We took off from WPB as a flight...
  2. RobLyman

    FAA MCA - Military Competance Airplane

    I did this the day after the new rules went into effect. (Last October). It may be slightly different for you. I had my civilian CFI/CFII/MEI already. I called the Orlando FSDO and they told me all of the DPEs had been sent a package already prepping for the change. Duane Brown did mine in Jax...
  3. RobLyman

    FAA MCA - Military Competance Airplane

    You might try a Navy flying club to pickup the IA and do an FRS tour to get your CFI/CFII helicopter. I've done a few commercial instrument airplane add ons for Army guys, and it doesn't take that much time or money. Their biggest hurdle is the landing flare. For you all you would need to do is...
  4. RobLyman

    Freebie Sub to HeliOps Magazine - READ THIS

    Unaided landings on a small deck. Landing in an LZ and hearing "clear of the trees". White out/brown out landings. Playing $9 mil snow blower hovering up and down the runway at EAATS. Low level, terrain and NOE flight under NVGs. Autos under NGVs!!! Hudson River Corridor at or below 500'.
  5. RobLyman

    Unmanned Helicopters? Black Hawks, to be specific?

    The point was not to compare upgrades to the radar, acoustic processors, dipping sonar, ESM, etc...Despite having different mission sets, many things are similar across airframes. Many things are not. Mission set sometimes has less to do with what gets incorporated than do budget and procurement...
  6. RobLyman

    Unmanned Helicopters? Black Hawks, to be specific?

    I'm going on what I have heard and seen at the factory in WPB and my own experience with the Seahawk and the Blackhawk (A,B,F,H,L & M models). I have seen the fly-by-wire aircraft several times in WPB and in one case talked to the guys working on it. I am not sure how much I am allowed to say...
  7. RobLyman

    Unmanned Helicopters? Black Hawks, to be specific?

    OMG, I forgot about that! Thanks for bringing back memories. We used to sit down in the LSO shack and tell the OOD what course to steer to get the winds in the envelope. The CO told us to stop, because they had to learn to do it themselves. Soon after that the repeater in the LSO shack...
  8. RobLyman

    Transfer to another community (ie Rotary to Strike) after first assignment

    You better stay Navy, 'cuz you have 'HHC' stamped on your forehead. Guys like you never make it to the flight companies in the Army. You would never track. Perpetual 'Peter Pilot' is what you would be. Sorry guys....despite what you may have heard to the contrary, we actually have standards in...
  9. RobLyman

    Unmanned Helicopters? Black Hawks, to be specific?

    It'll take quite a feat to get a helicopter to safely land on the back of a frigate or in a confined LZ w/o a pilot. As I have mentioned in another post, our state of the art, right off the assembly line aircraft will not reliably shoot an approach to a hover when the system is working right. If...
  10. RobLyman

    New wings approved for AMDO/Aviation LDO/CWOs

    We have two MTP slots per company of 6 aircraft. There are also 4 more slots between our maintenance company and HHC. In reality, the slots are not always filled with qualified MTPs or even PCs (HACs). We fly with a minimum crew for a test flight. Unless a crew chief is required to evaluate...
  11. RobLyman

    New wings approved for AMDO/Aviation LDO/CWOs

    First, I must qualify my Navy experience by saying that the last time I did FCFs in the Navy was in the early 90s, so my experience might be different than how it is done today in the Navy. To become an FCP, my CO had to assign me to a job in maintenance. In my case, it was AV/ARMs division...
  12. RobLyman

    Add Wings to your profile: Pinning on new wings

    I joined Pilot and Army Pilot groups about two weeks ago and no wings yet. Is that still the process for updating my avatar? If possible, please add one each (Army & Navy). I have earned both.
  13. RobLyman

    New wings approved for AMDO/Aviation LDO/CWOs

    Really? Seriously, I am not try to be a smart a--, but you hold private, commercial and/or ATP & CFI/CFII ratings in multiple categories and classes? You are a DPE, an A&P and an AI? Glider, multi engine land & sea, lighter than air, powered lift, rotorcraft helicopter, rotorcraft autogyro? I...
  14. RobLyman

    The Great Cross-Country Thread: Rules, Regs, Destinations and Sea Stories

    CARC Green It's better than the mint ice cream color primer! That's for sure! I have flown Navy, civilian & Army. Its all good.
  15. RobLyman

    Navy Takes Delivery of TH-72A

    The civilian maintenance might have little or nothing to do with TPS. Our guard UH-72s require an A&P to sign off all maintenance. It is an FAA certified aircraft. This is one of the problems we are having...getting maintainers who have an A&P and that are not needed in other shops (like my QC...
  16. RobLyman

    Navy Takes Delivery of TH-72A

    I wouldn't quantify it as a "great success". FYI: We got a couple of the TPS pilots down in J'ville to get time in our guard UH-72s.
  17. RobLyman

    The Great Cross-Country Thread: Rules, Regs, Destinations and Sea Stories

    Just finished a UH-60M pickup from West Palm to Jacksonville this past week. It does't get much newer smelling than 10.4 hrs on the aircraft and primer paint still on it. I never got an aircraft delivery flight when I flew in the Navy, but I have picked up 6 brand new aircraft in the past 6...
  18. RobLyman

    Why it's good to be in Naval Aviation

    Back on my first underway period I was on a hoist transfer mission. We were to pickup someone off a Knox class frigate (yeah, I am that old). I was in the right seat, we were hovering with the nose off to the left. My aircrewman was giving the standard calls, when I heard this: "...Pax half way...
  19. RobLyman

    Scariest Day/Night Flying

    What is the CSAR freq? The Army National Guard has a bunch of helos ( Blackhawks, Chinooks, Lakotas and Kiowas) flying out of Cecil Field and I know they don't know about the CSAR common freq. Did you know there is also a discrete frequency JSO, Life Flight and Trauma One all use in downtown Jax?
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