tinyclark

This has probably been said by many pilots before the said, "Oh s'''it".

Yep, just like with a woman with a fine body and a not-so-fine face.

The only problem I can see with being in the FL30s is that the IFF couldn't send out correct altitude in MODE C after 30,800', since the old E-models and early H's didn't have the D4 pulse hooked up to the altitude encoder. ATC would have shown you at 27,700' if you were at 33,800'.

Yea, sounds like it is just breaking lock to me. I'd really check those antenna connectors carefully. There may be corrosion on the center pin connection that you won't see unless you take them apart, especially if it was soldered. The newer stye connectors are crimp type pins for a reason. I can't see any of the associated equipment doing it, but I have been wrong about 3 or 4 times before.

I believe the numbers you gave were for the honey bucket. Why they call it a chemical toilet, I don't know. I guess you can have a gallon of pinesol of a few pounds of kitty litter in there if you wanted. If you are talking about the fancy toilets, attached is the IPB.

I couldn't find any info on any of those part numbers you listed. What book was that picture out of?? I checked the new -4, and it shows a 2076-100 and 2076-200A, which are both Navy part numbers. But the description section showed a MIL-T-25186, which crossed to NSN 4510-00-052-8828. There are plenty in supply, and we have changed out several here in ISO. They are just over $4K. There is no info in the spec on a repair parts kit. Sorry.

Our stuff was down this morning, and I had to leave early today. I'll run by tomorrow morning and see if i can't pull the info up.

I've never worked this RAD ALT or the FCS-105. I don't know what the "can do" is. I am assuming that there is a setting on the Altimeter Indicator, so that if you go below it, a flag pops up?? (MIN ALT?) Is that what you are referring to, or are you saying that once the altitude is above 300', it shuts off and then shuts everything else off? Or if it goes above 300', you get TCAS errors, GCAS squawking ALT. The A/P shouldn't even be engaged below 300' should it? I am just a bit confused at this point, since I've never worked on newer airplanes. I would swap the transmit antenna first (left one). Have you checked the RF connectors, especially on the antenna ends, for corrosion?

That guy needs a new crack pipe, I guess.

I can tell you about Pope and Keesler. Pope is located in Ft Bragg. I spent 6 years there, and there are a lot of grunts there, around 80,000 back in the 90's. Traffic can be bad at times. I lived in College Lakes, it wasn't bad, nice and quiet. Some folks live all the way out in Hope Mills, but that makes for a long drive. Mild winters, very hot and humid summers with little breeze. Keesler is on the ocean, but you can't swim there in Biloxi. The water quality sucks. Very hot and humid in the summer, but you are close to other places along the coast. Destin is about 3 hours away, and New Orleans is a few hours in the other direction. I am at Moody AFB myself. I'm surprised that wasn't a choice for you. It's OK, and I will retire here for the time being, anyway.

I'll see if i can find out what is in that kit tomorrow. Are these thing that expensive? I mean, and excuse the verb, but why not just sh!tcan it.

I don't think that would be the case here, since that act probably saved a lot of asses from being caned. I'm thinking there should have been a medal invovled.

Any foreign users out there have the old 618T HF vacuum tube radio still on the aircraft? I am under the assumption that all of those systems have been replaced. This would be on 78 and older models.

We didn't get our "tea and koolaid" rations on my rotation either. But, we had the Navy bar in one of the barracks that was always a good place to hang out and consume adult beverages.

Are you guys going to do the TCTO, or were your aircraft modified and you need some information from the TCTO?

I did that rotation for a month, of course, after they killed the $75 a day per diem. I didn't know it was called that, though. That was with our regular dumb and AWADS birds, from what I recall.

I still remember the nasty food and the milk residue on the glasses at Khorat.

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Laptop at McDonald's... Good luck on a smooth move.

And I thought they were called gust locks.

Someone asked me about Pictures of Bat-60 aircraft. I am clueless, can anyone fill me in?

I am probably wrong, but I don't think there is a T.O. that deals with that.

Thanks for all your hard years of service! 5 more months for me...

In that kind of situation, why would you worry about anyone riding the brakes?

Really isn't anything there besides the contactor, GCU and the light assy. You can pull the wire off the terminal board that goes to terminal 2 of the light assy, though I have no idea what aircraft you have, so I can't say what the TB or terminal # is. ESU-TB5A, terminal 9? See if the light goes out. If it doesn't, the light assy circuit is bad.