T-45 Ejection Seat

[gte544j]

Anybody else have a problem with the ejection seat poking the crap out of your lower back? Specifically, that vertical ridge in the lumbar portion of the seat that stops abruptly about 8 inches up your back. Any tips/tricks?

 

[Banjo33]

I'm pretty sure that seat back is adjustable. I remember getting in after a shorter person and it would push against the bottom half of my back. I would say check that. It's a small slide-type adjustment on the left portion of the seat as you're sitting in it (but only adjustable from outside the cockpit). It moves up and down from what I remember.

 

[ChuckMK23]

OK so which of you perverts stuck your girlfriends 8" toy in the back of get544j's ejection seat? I mean that has to be a clear violation of NATOPS.

Can you imagine the gripe on the MAF? "Pilot complains of 8 inch long object poking him in the back"

"Remove and replace ejection seat. Found 8" FOD in backrest cushion. Removed object"

 

[gaijin6423]

Not as bad as "Radio INOP with switch in 'On-For-Flight' position." That's the "OFF" position. (That was a hornet pilot that initiated that gripe, btw.)

Not to be unfair, the other day I was reading through a TH-57 ADB and saw, "GPS displays 'UNKNOWN ERROR; RECYCLE POWER' on startup. Recycled power several times with no results." The corrective action? "User-inputed message deleted."

 

[Gatordev]

Not to be unfair, the other day I was reading through a TH-57 ADB and saw, "GPS displays 'UNKNOWN ERROR; RECYCLE POWER' on startup. Recycled power several times with no results." The corrective action? "User-inputed message deleted."

That is awesome. I'll have to remember that one. Much better than the ghey "FSU RULES, GATORS SUCK" that someone put in....while I was flying over Tallahassee.

 

[Fly Navy]

Check the back postition lever. You can reach it if you're unstrapped, but it do it before you enter the cockpit.

 

[Pags]

Not as bad as "Radio INOP with switch in 'On-For-Flight' position." That's the "OFF" position. (That was a hornet pilot that initiated that gripe, btw.)

Not to be unfair, the other day I was reading through a TH-57 ADB and saw, "GPS displays 'UNKNOWN ERROR; RECYCLE POWER' on startup. Recycled power several times with no results." The corrective action? "User-inputed message deleted."

I was in a/c issue and an IP was writing up a gripe for a "more cowbell" startup message and another IP brought up the "cycle power" error message.

also enjoyed my training on a MAF that read: "UHF radio inop. suspect water in the unit." My IP says, "don't write in stuff like that....unless you spilled water in it"

 

[gaijin6423]

That is awesome. I'll have to remember that one. Much better than the ghey "FSU RULES, GATORS SUCK" that someone put in....while I was flying over Tallahassee.

Not really MAF (or ejection seat, for that matter) related, but I've got a Gators story. My onwing in primary was a Gator, and I used to date a girl who when to school there. We were planning a XC to West Palm Beach area, and I told him that I predicted I would have to use the relief tube over Gainesville. Yeah, we went to Fort Worth instead.

 

[Brett327]

That is awesome. I'll have to remember that one. Much better than the ghey "FSU RULES, GATORS SUCK" that someone put in....while I was flying over Tallahassee.

PCLoadLetter - a perennial nav system interface favorite for the hot-seat crew.

Brett

 

[Fly Navy]

PCLoadLetter - a perennial nav system interface favorite for the hot-seat crew.

Brett

"PC Load Letter... what the **** does that mean?!"

 

[ChuckMK23]

This thread has reached way too high velocity. I mean it's Tuesday night - shouldn't most of you be at a ladies night somewhere?

 

[Brett327]

Best Mal Code ever:

For those of you who are fleet-bound, remember this hallmark of shame: A 799

I know Crowbar understands. BTW, were you around for the old WUC books (pre-NALCOMIS) that had a listing of all the weird and obscure MAF related stuff?

Brett

 

[Brett327]

Ah yes, the old A-799/Y code battles.

WUC books. You mean the big pub-style ones or the blue-brains style ones? We used both. WUCs. That's something I hadn't thought about in a long time. Blechhh. We've had NALCOMIS (aka NALCOMMUNIST) since I hit the fleet (albeit on the boat we had those ass-kicking Honeywell Bull abacus with a keyboard terminals with the start screen seared into the monitor) but we still used those old WUC books for 'quick reference'. The fleet ever get up to speed on NALCOMIS optimized?

I mean the old blue brains version. I cut my teeth on the old green paper MAF system, so whenever the AZs pull those out on det or if NACOMIS goes down, everyone (including the junior maintainers) cock their heads like a dog who has just been told that it's going to the vet. "Out of the way, mortals," I say, as I snatch them out of their hands. Ahh, the simple pleasures.

Brett

 

[Schnugg]

Yes, yes my friend.....the old A 799.

The gripe: "Radar unable to get a PSTT lock"

Best write off ever..."R&R the R 10 unit checks 4.0 on deck."

Signed off: A 799
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for the newbs....R 10 unit is slang for the GIB, you know the guy in back, the RIO

 

[Brett327]

Green MAFs. Next you'll be talking about MAF boards! Stop it already! What version of the 4790 did you cut your teeth on? The "2A"?
Yes we still had some of the blue WUC books floating around. It became a contest to see who could find the oddest and/or most appropriate mal code. How else would we find 437? Seems like the CDIs I 'grew up' around had this aversion to using anything other than 070 "broken".

Yeah, I'm sure the Robert Macnamera clones at DoD who came up with the idea of tracking all that data and other minutiae are sitting on warehouses of information that nobody cares about, or has ever used other than to justify their own existance.

Brett