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I'd just be happy if some dip$hit at our unit would stop saving over our standard load and reverting to old maps that still have Lake City without a tower, NAS Jax tower frequency as 120.0, and no clearance deliver at Cecil. If I catch that F#$%er I'm going to embarrass them by making them wear...

What next? Combat patches, ribbons, awards for those not "fortunate enough" to have deployed? How about forbidding those who have deployed from wearing their awards/badges? Wait..that's been done.

I flew out of Marana (Pinal) for eight weeks a few years back. I had a Jeep as my rental car and drove up the dirt roads at Mt. Lemmon and explored the Saguaro National Park. I also had friends who lived out there. I HAD A BLAST! I did the buss tour at Pima Air Museum. It was neat, but I would...

I laugh every time I see my DA photo. To be honest, the badges and stuff are only part of the reason.

14 CFR 91.177 - Minimum altitudes for IFR operations. (ii) In any other case, an altitude of 1,000 feet above the highest obstacle within a horizontal distance of 4 nautical miles from the course to be flown... You can, and probably have, looked up the rest of the stipulations. When flying...

Does the Navy get one in Aquaflage? At least they didn't put that stuff on the inlets or the FM antenna/drive shaft cover. I wonder if that is a vinyl wrap. Opens up all kinds of potential for advertising. "Oh the humanity!"

That is what many Army IFEs will argue. But a radar vector is sorta OK, you just can't file for it.

The problem with any aviation unit larger than a company in the national guard is that it consists of sub units from different states. Heck, even our medevac company is split between three states. The whole battalion, and certainly any CAB never gets together as a whole until pre-mob. Also, CAB...

I'm A) Too lazy to look it up B) Finishing off a growler of beer C) Watching Monty Python and the Holy Grail D) All of the above. The gist of it is you can't "track" using TACAN point to point, ie don't have capability to determine cross track error, unless you have a TACAN RNAV system. The...

The instrumentation is almost an exact clone of the UH/HH-60M. In fact, an M qualified pilot needs no transition training, while an A/L pilot must go through a transition course. At least that's the proposal. The weird thing is, although the instrumentation looks the same, the source data is...

Maybe a 60V? The fairing looks the same.

Truth in advertising...I'm an Army IFE. But I'm not offended. However, having come from the Navy with more instrument time than anyone in our unit, AND being a CFII and MEI on the civilian side, I was not treated as being even equal to the IFEs in my unit. There was a lot of envy because I could...

The strict rules mostly come with the doctrine. If you aren't careful, people try to task you with missions that are a definite NO NO for aircraft with red crosses painted on the side. Add to that 77th CAB, and then 29th CAB weren't stellar (I'll get my pee pee wacked for saying that), but you...

Those are definitely wire strike protection. I was talking about above the MLG. Looks like maybe an APR-39 antenna blended into the strut fairing, with something angling forward and down. Looking at it closer and comparing it to our aircraft, it looks similar, but maybe the paint color as well...

Underslung FLIR that can see every antenna under the aircraft. Only blind spots are at he MLG. 6 degree nose up slope limit. I have pushed soft sand out of the way with it, not looking forward of course, with no damage. Our new Talon model is even smaller but still sees under the aircraft fine...

60L I would guess. Stabilator and rotor blades definitely aren't 60M. That's something odd going on at the MLG strut.

The reality of it is that HSC could and has done some of those missions, but as stated before, the Army and Air force do this ALL THE TIME! And they practice it ALL THE TIME. The training that Apache pilots go through to stay effective is WAY beyond what HSC could possibly do while also trying...

Found it in my logbook. 22.8 hours! That's about what I have in the new 60M simulator in the last three months.

Nice posts. All except the Army IFE comments, LOL.

Let's not forget malware.?

P E R F E C T!!! What better way to instill nostalgia than to have SNAs fly legacy simulators for BI and RI. I flew the UH-1 simulator back in the early 80s for BI. I figure it will be 10 years after the new training helo is online before they have a sim for it.

Thanks. I've got volume I. Volume II has the actual deck layouts and compatibility much like the NAEC-ENG-7576 Shipboard Aviation Facilities Resume, only for foreign (NATO) vessels. I'll be driving over to NAS Jax for a simulator period later this month. I'm sure someone there has the answer. It...

From nu-cu-lar aircraft carriers to butt spray machines in three pages!?

And now a note from our sponsors... Sikorsky's UTTAS proposal had a fixed stabilator even after winning the contract for a prototype. The "fly-by-wire" stabilator came in during testing of one of the YUH-60A prototypes. Rube Goldberg-ish as it may be, it solved several design issues. If you...

No matter how things change, they stay the same.

Yes, they have gained weight from ASE gear, but not as much as you might think. We tend to install A kits for most of the ASE gear, then rotate the B kits as we deploy. You won't see BAPS, EIBF, or AVR-2B until pre-mob or getting in country. A CONUS aircraft <> the same aircraft in country...

Someone needs to service the rear strut on the blue one. I'll bet it bucks like a bronco taxiing in with nearly empty fuel cells. FWIW, the Army 60Ls and 60As have had the drag beam upgraded, as well as an increase in the number of lugs for the MLG wheel.

Anti-Semitic much? You should probably leave.

I change my mind. Lock this thread down!

Not Skeeterman?

This was fun to wake up to. Before we get too critical and shut down this thread, consider that it just might be the beginning of something great. Take a look at this thread that went on over on an Army aviation related site. 133 pages worth! "If driving a postal truck was a challenge you may...

Challenge elevated to the next level..... Anyone got a linky thingy for the MPP-02, VOLUME II HOSTAC? You never know when you might be invited to land on the *HMS Penzance. I've gone through a ton of NATO pages, including the NATO Standardization Office site, but can't seem to find Volume II...

Agree. I see the problem getting worse, and the change to the LUH only masking the problem in the near future.

Marginally acceptable. Our new crop is worse at hand flying, operating the FMS and systems knowledge. And I don't think it is the LUH airframe or systems responsible for the deficiency. About half of the noobs reach for the flight director knobs as the aircraft is going through translational...

Actually, the guys coming out of flight school right now are terrible at systems, regardless of platform. Imagine walking through the preflight of a Blackhawk, asking the new pilot what they are looking at, and pausing on the left side of the intermediate gear box: Me: What are you looking at...

HMS Ocean, 3 Merlins and a visiting Chinook and Blackhawk.

Can't believe it took three pages before someone else thought of it..

https://www.airwarriors.com/community/threads/another-skipper-relieved.38645/page-127#post-928719 See the section on Group B.;)

Just for a point of reference, I looked at my logbook for 2010 and had 208 hours at home, followed by 199 hours in 2011 on deployment (medevac). We had just fielded brand new 60Ms in 2009, so none had even seen a PMI (phase) yet. Maintenance was obviously not an issue. On top of that, a lot of...

Wait, you mean as an officer you A C T U A L L Y got summers off at one point? As in O F F? I never saw that since I started high school, back in 1978!

Bought this two days ago. Took it to the range for the first time today. A few tweaks with the gas setting and it shoots REAL NIIICE! Oh yeah..sub $1k

You can do this same job in the national guard, with the S-92s cousin...tax free.

Yeah. I am away from home more now in the National Guard than I ever was on active duty.

https://www.ar15.com/forums/general/I_think_this_is_a_bad_rotor_blade_______/147-1693782/ https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2014/12/10/black-hawk-rotor-fails-more-than-a-mile-high-pilots-land-safely/ Army Times article is pretty bad. If I recall correctly, he said the aircraft felt like...

You're not going to believe it, but I know that guy too! LOL We just deployed with them. SC guard I believe.

Oil cooler spline failure. It was an HSL-40 60B in 1986/87ish. Aircraft drifted left at the bottom because MMU puts in left cyclic to counter the translating tendencies of the tail rotor thrust, which was zero in this case. Left drift on touchdown in soft dirt caused the left strut to break and...

FWIW...FLARNG has one of those (Firehawk) as well down in Brooksville. They have removed most of the fire gear as its hard to get parts.

The original hangar we used at HSL-44 before the "new" hangars were added at Mayport, is still there, but the McDonald's is now a Panda Express? The first ship I deployed on, commissioned in 1987, was a brand new ship. I last saw it in Philly, with one other Tico and what must be the majority of...

Are we doing...flown in...or flown? T-34B/C SH-3 (flew as a mid, does that count?) SH-60B SH-60F UH-60A (there may be a few franken-hawk 60A+ around, but nobody flies straight up 60As anymore) HH-60H (are they still around?) Flew in S-3B SH-2F CH-46 Plank owner on a ship that is now...

Amway?