herkyjerky

Thanks! Now I just have to figure out the equivilent readings from those POTS and I should be in buisness. (After they are calibrated)

Anyone have any idea what kind of signal feeds the fuel totalizer on legacy fuel quantity systems? (Not the BF-Goodrich digital type systems) The individual tank gauges do the work reading the capacitence probes, but they send a single wire signal to the totalizer. My first guess was DC linear voltage since that is popular for those types of applications, but I can't find anything on haystack or the TO/specs that says what it is. Thanks in advance! (Trying to debug and read the signal for an international customer I'm working with at the moment)

At 14 mil a pop AMP is double what Boeing said it would cost (7 Mil) Most H-Model modernizations cost anywhere from 3-8 million based on the complexity. The US (and other gov) are not dumb, they know what other cockpits cost and that 14 mil is kind of a rip off. (Which is why you don't see alot of people lining up to get this mod) Nat. Guard programs especially do not like the risk/cost of going to AMP. On top of all that, the J-Model is not fully CNS-ATM compliant, late, and completely owned by Lockheed. (So upgrades come in blocks and 100 mil price tags) Right now the users of the H-models are kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place as "other" options would involve deviating from the congress spending on AMP and J. Oh what fun politics are :-D

EDIT: Whoops! Need to look closer... Sorry that was confusing for a second. That's one of the older models, that panel appears to be a radar control of some kind. This bird still had a boob tube monitor and joystick :-) I'll find a higher rez pic and see if I can find that sucker.

That is a Canadian Herk :-) And those toys are older then i am haha. As for the FE panel, it's hard to beat it's design, functionally it is one of the better laid out things I've ever seen in any aircraft. (Just my personal opinion.)

This bird has since retired, need to look at my other pics I forget which tail number this was. :-) EDIT: Found it!