lyrix Posted July 26, 2013 Share Posted July 26, 2013 hello everyone,i have some question:confused::confused: when i saw the imgs,i found a tower on the top of the aircraft,like this [ATTACH=CONFIG]3522[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]3523[/ATTACH] does anybody knows what's this?radar or sth? and i saw the stuff on c-130E c-130H,is it the dedicated equipment of those two plane? hope someone explain to me,thank u very much :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrkaegi Posted July 26, 2013 Share Posted July 26, 2013 Ske radar............Almost like TCAS............ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbsoto Posted July 26, 2013 Share Posted July 26, 2013 If memory serves it is Station Keeping Equipment (SKE) Radar; used for flying in formation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Railrunner130 Posted July 26, 2013 Share Posted July 26, 2013 Yep. There's one on the underside as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donwon Posted July 26, 2013 Share Posted July 26, 2013 I thought it was a building in the background. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEFEGeorge Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 From a foggy old memory, back in the day, as said it's the Station Keeping Equipment radome. On top of the instrument panel there's a mount where we usually kept the APN 59 radar repeater scope for the pilots. For SKE missions we swapped it out for the SKE scope. Each aircraft in the mission had specific info to input into the SKE system - offsets, distances, unique aircraft IDs, etc. It was intended for formation flying in less than VFR weather conditions. Not sure if many people actually trusted it much but it was a tool to train with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polcat Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 We still use it. However, even numbered aircraft (wingmen) are offset 500 ft to the right of their element leaders while odd aircraft (element leads) have 0 cross track. Gone are the days of the 3-ship element. Now it's the 2-ship element. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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