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Who gets the T-6 Texan II first?
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UInavy said:
Hey, what's the rationale behind shooting these long-winded full arcing TACAN approaches in the training command? Every do that in the real Navy?
Besides, learning how to use the GPS (even if it's for approaches) isn't a bad idea. You'll use it again in Advanced Intercepts if you go Strike/Fighter... or in Comps if you go Strike (or Fighter-Comps... guess they added those to the syllabus). Just good to be familiar with waypoint plotting and how the system works, et cetera
Fly Navy said:
Well, UINavy IS a salty veteran who has been fully brainwashed into Navy-speak
Pags,
The NSE TACAN is only certified as a TACAN for that exact reason. If it was a VORTAC, then PNS and whatever that field south of S. Field is would want to use it. It's not just that it doesn't show up on the charts, it's legally not....well, legal. But I think that's what you're saying.
EDIT...never mind, Fly beat me to it. I hate it when I'm stuck on another page.
@Chuck,
I think it depends on your community. We would use GPS tactically all the time, to the extent that some people freak out when the little "G" goes away (which is quite often). Personally, I think ASW is easier if you just leave GPS off once it fails. But if it does work while you're doing it, your solution is much tighter. Plus for OTH targetting, it's so much easier to pass reliable info to other assets with GPS. Things don't drift.
The NSE TACAN is only certified as a TACAN for that exact reason. If it was a VORTAC, then PNS and whatever that field south of S. Field is would want to use it. It's not just that it doesn't show up on the charts, it's legally not....well, legal. But I think that's what you're saying.
EDIT...never mind, Fly beat me to it. I hate it when I'm stuck on another page.
@Chuck,
I think it depends on your community. We would use GPS tactically all the time, to the extent that some people freak out when the little "G" goes away (which is quite often). Personally, I think ASW is easier if you just leave GPS off once it fails. But if it does work while you're doing it, your solution is much tighter. Plus for OTH targetting, it's so much easier to pass reliable info to other assets with GPS. Things don't drift.
Ohhhhh SNAP!!!!!!
and talking to an AF guy at Randolph - the AF sees no need for beta. He reminded me that the T-6 is primarily designed to teach a single seat jet candidate - just as with the auto trim on the rudders, the the behavior to move th PCL to beta is a uniquely turbo-prob behavior - and not one the AF wanted to teach. So not including Beta on the T-6 made perfect sense to our AF comrades.
ChuckMK23 said:
Yet they dumped a JET primary trainer and spent all this money making a PROP fly like a jet. Yeesh. Although on the whole "need for beta" issue, is there any other airfield in the world which does split-field ops other than Whiting?
HH-60H said:
It means that at North Whiting, departures are usually initiated from mid-field intersection, Landings made to approach end.
The AF, when joint UPT was in it's evolving stage, looked at the Navy's non centralized approach to course rules and about had a heart attack. They [AF]think we are nuts!
HH-60H said:
Actually Navs are third-class citizens... below WSOs...
And yes, it actually is an entirely different selection process. Like in the Navy where you can select pilot or NFO out of your commissioning source, in the AF you select pilot or WSO or Nav... three totally different pipelines for them...