tinyclark

Yea, sounds like it was probably the receiver antenna, especially with known good R/Ts from other aircraft installed.

LMAO, welcome back, Dan.

That is VERY scary. I heard I get a letter from the president if I have more than 30 years of service when I retire. Now I am not sure if I will retire in December, and should wait two more years. Well, OK, that is kinda extreme. I could always petition G.W. to sign it...

May they all rest in eternal peace.

For those that don't know about the history of political parties... Here is a condensed version: Humans originally existed as members of small bands of nomadic hunters/gatherers. They lived on deer in the mountains during the summer and would go to the coast and live on fish and lobster in the winter. The two most important events in all of history were the invention of beer and the invention of the wheel. The wheel was invented to get man to the beer. These were the foundation of modern civilization and together were the catalyst for the splitting of humanity into two distinct subgroups: 1. Liberals 2. Conservatives. Once beer was discovered, it required grain and that was the beginning of agriculture. Neither the glass bottle nor aluminum can were invented yet, so while our early humans were sitting around waiting for them to be invented, they just stayed close to the brewery. That's how villages were formed. Some men spent their days tracking and killing animals to BBQ at night while they were drinking beer. This was the beginning of what is known as the Conservative movement... Other men who were weaker and less skilled at hunting learned to live off the conservatives by showing up for the nightly BBQ's and doing the sewing, fetching, and hair dressing. This was the beginning of the Liberal movement. Some of these liberal men eventually evolved into women. They became known as girlie-men. Some noteworthy liberal achievements include the domestication of cats, the invention of group therapy, group hugs, and the concept of Democratic voting to decide how to divide the meat and beer that conservatives provided. Over the years conservatives came to be symbolized by the largest, most powerful land animal on earth, the elephant. Liberals are symbolized by the jackass for obvious reasons. Modern liberals like imported beer (with lime added), but most prefer white wine or imported bottled water. They eat raw fish but like their beef well done. Sushi, tofu, and French food are standard liberal fare.. Another interesting evolutionary side note: most of their women have higher testosterone levels than their men. Most social workers, personal injury attorneys, journalists, dreamers in Hollywood and group therapists are liberals. Liberals invented the designated hitter rule because it wasn't fair to make the pitcher also bat. Conservatives drink domestic beer, mostly Bud or Miller. They eat red meat and still provide for their women. Conservatives are big game hunters, rodeo cowboys, lumberjacks, construction workers, firemen, medical doctors, police officers, engineers, corporate executives, athletes, members of the military, airline pilots and generally anyone who works productively. Conservatives who own companies hire other conservatives who want to work for a living. Liberals produce little or nothing. They like to govern the producers and decide what to do with the production. Liberals believe Europeans are more enlightened than Americans. That is why most of the liberals remained in Europe when conservatives were coming to America. They crept in after the Wild West was tamed and created a business of trying to get more for nothing.

Thanks for the clarification.

From what I heard last week, they found no internal damage, so it will fly again. They wouldn't get my butt on it, voluntarily.

From Lars' book: Crashed dropping Sheridan tank at Ft Bragg. Load hung up, parachute deployed. I thought this was the one that came down too fast. I think this was it.

Hey, now yer crossing the line.

The Love Story of Ralph And Edna Ralph and Edna were good friends, and also patients in a mental hospital. One day while they were walking past the hospital swimming pool, Ralph suddenly jumped into the deep end. He sank to the bottom of the pool and stayed there. Edna promptly jumped in to save him. She swam to the bottom and pulled him out. When the Head Nurse Director became aware of Edna's heroic act she immediately ordered her to be discharged from the hospital, as she now considered her to be mentally stable. When she went to tell Edna the news she said, 'Edna, I have good news and bad news. The good news is you're being discharged, since you were able to rationally respond to a crisis by jumping in and saving the life of the person you love. I have concluded that your act displays sound mindedness. The bad news is, Ralph hung himself in the bathroom with his bathrobe belt right after you saved him. I am so sorry, but he's dead.' Edna replied, 'He didn't hang himself, I put him there to dry. How soon can I go home?

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?