Ht-28???

[Flying Low]

I have some files of the new patch. I will post them tomorrow on this thread.

 

[Pags]

By joint do you mean Air Force? If so then no. I will be going into 28 and have been to most of the stand-up meetings. There has been no talk of this at all.

Smoke

Yeah, sorry for the confusion...by joint I meant Air Force. I had heard rumors of the AF sending their helo drivers to Whiting, but guess that was bad gouge.

 

[Flying Low]

Here is the patch. The one on the right is still subject to change.

 

[ChuckMK23]

OK so this is not an April fool's spoof? Is this no sh!t for real?

What building would they be based from?

How can TW-5 accommodate another HT with no additional TH-57's? How does THAT work?

re: Air Force - once in a while the AF does send us a stud. I onwinged the first AF stud in '1994. But there is little reason. The AF is getting a new fleet of refurbed TH-1H's with EFIS cockpits and the works, overhauled to the Huey II standard (N tail, M/R, nose). These are up at Cairns AAF.

 

[Flying Low]

28 will be in the AMO building on the 3rd floor. It is the building right next to CTW-5. As far as more A/C, I don't know. Right now the guys going into 28 are coming from 8/18. I will look into the A/C issue and let you know what I find out. They might just order new ones with glass cockpits instead of refurbing all the old ones.

Smoke

 

[e6bflyer]

I HEARD (read: rumor) that this is based on a graduate project that was done by an IP and proposed to the wing. The basis is that the Navy has been ramping up helo training and continues to do so but the infrastructure of the 2 squadrons is having difficulty keeping up. I don't know about training aircraft, they seem to be doing a good job of keeping the instructors flying over there right now, as many of them will tell you, and I don't suspect that will change when they add a new squadron.
I think (read: really don't know sh!t) that the idea is to have 3 leaner, more efficient squadrons rather than the two bloated squadrons they have right now.

 

[Squid]

does it or does it not look like trogdor, the BURNINATOR.

http://www.homestarrunner.com/trogdor.html

and why the 3 color background? 8's got it, 18's got it......

 

[Afterburner76]

also kinda resembles

 

[Rubiks06]

What we were told is along those same lines. That HT-8 and HT-18 are "two of the largest helo squadrons if not the largest helo squadrons in the navy" and that they are trying to decrease squadron size.

 

[MasterBates]

Look at it this way, something around 50% of SNAs go thru the HTs.

There are 4 Jet VTs, 2 Prop VTs, and 2 HTs. (right now)

I always wondered why there were not more when I was a student.

Getting a 3rd squaron makes sense.

 

[Squid]

well look at the length of the ht's vs jet vt's. 1 year + vs a couple of months? turnover says there can be more in and out.

so if they are using the same aircraft wouldn't the bottleneck be in turning so many aircraft so many times per day?

 

[MasterBates]

HTs are more than a couple months. Given normal pools and wx, you are looking at at least 6-7 months.

 

[ArkhamAsylum]

The sim instructors claim that TH-57D's are on the horizon. Glass cockpit and all.

 

[phrogdriver]

well look at the length of the ht's vs jet vt's. 1 year + vs a couple of months? turnover says there can be more in and out.

I hear they're also going to have a correspondence course on MCI where you can learn to fly helos in about a month via the mail.

 

[Gatordev]

well look at the length of the ht's vs jet vt's. 1 year + vs a couple of months? turnover says there can be more in and out.

so if they are using the same aircraft wouldn't the bottleneck be in turning so many aircraft so many times per day?

It's not so much a bottleneck as just the limit of IPs. HT IPs are doing 2 bags easy and often 3 bags a day. That's on top of their ground jobs (they don't have the civilians that the VTs do). Having the load spread across sounds like a reasonable idea. Also, helo selection is increasing this year (> 50%...saw that on a slide at some point), along w/ VT(p) production. Oh yeah, all w/out increased in funding/IPs.