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  1. On 5/8/2017 at 10:27 PM, US Herk said:

    That's because of that huge nose...below 110KCAS or so, airspeed becomes unreliable...they should've moved the pitot tubes out to the wings or something! ;)

    "It's a subsonic aircraft"

    Direct quote from then IBM when that was brought up at the CDR.

    But hey, the aircraft have the coffee can mods ...

     

  2. On 4/27/2017 at 1:25 PM, AMPTestFE said:

    Ok, so I'm out at base X flying our 4 '74 models and notice a trend.  After climbing up to our cruise ceiling, we can't true out until an hour or two later....so I started running some other charts.  I first would watch our TAS until we just hit 300, then took a snapshot of average torque, gross weight, OAT, alt, etc.  I would then run the IAS for 300TAS chart, which might have come out with something like 12,000 in lbs, before the drag correction.  On page 2 (drag correction), I would correct for our advertised ~+20 index, and would come up with a value much less than what it just took us to creep up to 300 TAS.  So then, I would come in backwards with my average actual torque on the left, then intersect with the charted value from the bottom.  For each of our 4 airplanes, the result varied from a +70 to +60 drag index.  On subsequent flights, I would calculate our cruise ceiling with this new value.  When we'd get to top of climb, guess what...we'd true out almost exactly at 300.  I know some will ask about engine performance, but this method takes that out of the equation.  Torque is torque, regardless of engine performance values.

    And no, we didn't forget the flaps....

    So....has anyone else noticed the H being too draggy like this?  I'm wondering if the engineers mis-calculated the drag value of LAIRCM or something.

    Having been part of DIRCM/LAIRCM flight test of at least 7 different C-130s, not to mention the wind tunnel testing of the original SOF DIRCM installation I'd say the drag estimate is reasonably close, certainly within the error bars of a sharp pencil

     

    FWIW the handling flights of the Talon II (85-0012) were the most "interesting"  - "Some approaches to stalls are closer than others"

  3. Yes, the AF is finally observing public law and using the allocated funding for it's intended purpose.

    The "new" AMP program will be implemented in two increments. The major items to be replaced in increment 1 will include new radios and transponder.  Increment 2 will include the glass panel displays, but for some unknown reason, retain the Navigator.

    Congress is questioning the AF's timeline & is requiring a reevaluation. They basically think the AF won't get all the Hs done in time for the airspace requirements.

    ​Not really, they are not.

     

    My bet is the primary operators of the legacy C-130 fleet will not get AMP, at least as it is defined by the current program of record.

  4. Speaking of the AC-130U, can any of you gunship guys tell me what those 2 tubes are for below the empennage?

    Don R.

     

    C-130GUNSHIPfromairliners.net1.jpg

    ​Those are the AAQ-24 DIRCM Missile Warning Sensor fairings (You can see the large DIRCM transmitter turret right above the 105 barrel)

    The original three aircraft the sensor fairings were designed by Scaled Composites and looked natural.  The U-boat fairings were designed by another firm and are UGLY.

    The Scaled fairings were used on the LAIRCM installations on MAF C-130s

  5. Ah yes, 1699 the white tail

    Spent a lot of time on 476 in Apr of 93 or 94 trying to get the forward flares to work correctly. Probably 93 as Scott was the DO then. I know that in Dec 94 Scott was CC and PR was DO (killed billions of brain cells at a Christmas party at the CC's house).

  6. The ICS on the T2 is fair on the best of days. There's far too much feedback in the system, it can't handle being loaded up with multiple crewmembers, it can't handle mixed headsets (some guys wearing Bose, some guys wearing DCs), the hum is directly relative to the pilots instrument lights, and it's almost impossible to get a good balance between the radios. They really need to update the system to a modern digital system with some sort of AGC and better filtering...not that it affects me anymore. ;)

    Welcome to the result of being tied to the H-60 Nighthawk. A lot of what is screwed up in the avionics is the result of that, especially the ICS.
  7. This is from the AFA. Fiscal 2013 Actions:

    Eliminate 19 C-130H2s from JB Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, along with an active association there; remove three -H2s from Niagara, N.Y., and end a Reserve association there; remove 10 -H2.5s from Rosecrans AGS, Mo., six -H2s from Youngstown-Warren, Ohio, one -H2.5 from Louisville, Ky., one -H3 from Charleston, W.V., one -H2.5 from Cheyenne, Wyo., four -H2s from Stratton AGS, N.Y., seven -H2s from Dobbins ARB, Ga., and seven -H2s from Pittsburgh, Pa., resulting in the closure of the associated Air Reserve Station there.

    Fiscal 2014 Actions:

    Remove seven C-130Hs from Maxwell AFB, Ala.; eight -H2s from NAS JRB Ft. Worth, Tex.; and eight -H3s from Minneapolis-St. Paul. Also remove 10 C-130Js from Keesler AFB, Miss.

    Fiscal 2016 Actions:

    Remove eight C-130H2s from Savannah, Ga., and eight -H3s from the active component at Little Rock, Ark.

    Fiscal 2017 Actions:

    Remove eight C-130H2s from Niagara, N.Y., three -H2s from the Reserve component and six H3s from the active component at Little Rock and two -H3s from Charlotte, N.C.

    Cheyenne gets rid of their lone 2.5 get a H3 in return so they will have 12 H3s.

  8. MSP has 92 year group H3's.

    Which they got from Niagara, when they swapped their H2s to be common with the ANG unit.

    Niagara got the MSP H2s plus four more from Nashville, which it looks like they are now losing ...

  9. Previously assigned to the 314th Airlift Wing at Little Rock AFB, Ark., this C-130E is the museum's second Hercules variant, joining an AC-130 gunship already on display. (See also Museum of Aviation release)
    That would probably news to 74-1686 YMC-130H (Remaining Credible Sport aircraft)
  10. "The 241 will TF...very nicely I might add. We were ready to take 0572 into the mountains at night for testing when AFSOC pulled the plug. It merges DTED with the active scan very well, not sure what your source is. TalonOneTF may or may not be able to validate one of us. "

    Try it in weather ...

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