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Who gets the T-6 Texan II first?
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I dont know much about the plane, but I heard that the T6B will be better than the T6A by a longshot. I think the navy will start using them in 2 to 3 years.
Easy there youngster, I spent a small fortune buying one of those when they first came out for my BOQ room in P'cola right after AOCS. It was my first "big" purchase with my Ensign money.nfo2b said:Holy crap, Steve. I don't know what's sadder: The fact that you have what appear to be personal pictures of Betamax hardware, or the fact that I'm old enough to remember our family owning said hardware.
I've had a few conversations with other people here at Whiting about when we might see the first T-6's on base and who would get them first, us or Corpus. I don't remember any hard numbers as far as what year we could expect them or anything but I've been told that Corpus could expect them before us because apparently you guys already have side by side runways. To use them here we would have to build new runways to parallel those we already have. That or we would have to seriously increase the time it takes us now to launch and recover aircraft. Now if what I've heard on here about the development of a T-6 with beta is true, the above could be a moot point. In that case, I don't know which base could see them first. Hope that helps.
And to sum up the first few answers given to your question, if you want T-6's now, select Vance or Moody. Though I think I've heard that Moody can't be selected anymore. You should verify that with someone else.
And to sum up the first few answers given to your question, if you want T-6's now, select Vance or Moody. Though I think I've heard that Moody can't be selected anymore. You should verify that with someone else.
It's funny, kray, because I've been hearing this for several years. What kills me is when I was going through flight school, they were extending all the runways for the T-6 including the OLFs and South Field. It was like a slalom in the HTs trying to get through the hotpits w/ all the construction, and that was several years ago.
Not saying you're wrong, kray, just funny how the same things keep getting said.
Not saying you're wrong, kray, just funny how the same things keep getting said.
I think it all goes back to the fundementals of how the Navy vs. AF fly and operate aircraft.
The AF drives a structured combat mission kind of mindeset from the beginning - with each fllight having very specific phases - and airspace in allocated and managed per aircraft.
The Navy simply lets the IP do all the big picture planning, off to Area 1, see and avoid, etc.
T-6 is geared to the former - split field ops? The AF thinks we are the epitome of lax safety. Not preflighting with the PCL in hand? Herasey.
Ask an AF IP at VT-3 about how we train - they have that deer in the headlights look when they are in the FITU...
The AF drives a structured combat mission kind of mindeset from the beginning - with each fllight having very specific phases - and airspace in allocated and managed per aircraft.
The Navy simply lets the IP do all the big picture planning, off to Area 1, see and avoid, etc.
T-6 is geared to the former - split field ops? The AF thinks we are the epitome of lax safety. Not preflighting with the PCL in hand? Herasey.
Ask an AF IP at VT-3 about how we train - they have that deer in the headlights look when they are in the FITU...
