tinyclark

I sent you a pvt message

Both lizards are of the gecko family. I believe the house lizards were called chinchooks, and the FU lizards Tokays.

WOW, I am dumbstruck. Thanks to everyone for rocking your wings for my son. http://valdostadailytimes.com/obituaries/x657341187/Justin-Paul-Clark

My heart goes out to you Dan. I lost a dog & my prostate last year, and my son was diagnosed with oral cancer. Never drank, smoked or dipped. He is lying in bed at home right now with we don't know how many weeks to live. It was bad year all right. Cancer sucks. http://www.cafepress.com/+cancer-sucks+bumper-stickers

They are slowly going away. The big thing with C130 T.O.s is IETM, Integrated Electronic Tech Manual. It helps you troubleshoot and highlights wires to check in the diagrams. Still ain't working tho. I submitted an AFTO22 to explain how the 26VAC is used by the anti-skid system during self test. I was told by the "subject matter expert" that the technicians didn't need all that information. I am so glad I am retiring in 5 months. It's not so bad that being in maintenance means you are knee deep in crap all the time, it's when you have to stand on your head in it is when it really hurts.

I dunno, I didn't get here until 2007.

I've never has any luck trying to get any info out of anyone. A basic block diagram sure would be nice. Of course, we don't need all that useless information any more, or an avionics backshop either. All you need to fix probems are the job guides and F.I.s. This is the kinder and gentler AF. I will re-engage the issue and see what I can come up with. They had a 241 backshop up at Marrietta years ago, and an old comm/nav gal from Rhein Main worked there, but I can't remember her married name so can't get in touch. Attached it the very basic diagram out of the (H)H-2-11

I'm just busting your chops. Back in the day, SSgts didn't make that much, and my dad would find any way he could to save money, which he usually spent on us kids. Those cross-country trips were murder though. 3 kids in the back seat, with a dog, driving through the mojave desert with no A/C. Wake up at 6 to get going, drive until it was dark. But, even with all that, there are some good and lasting memories.

Am sure the Moody outfit will miss Tiny's expertise when he retires. Do they have Stop Loss for AFETS?

I know they are getting ready to hire a few, maybe in October, for the J models that D-M is getting, though that isn't cut in stone. We will be having our ACC lead conference next month, so I will try to pinpoint what is going to be going on for hiring. Do keep in mind that there aren't that many of us ACC AFETS around the USAF. AFSOC has their own program.

There is an arrow on the knob, showing that the knob is turned in the clockwise direction.

Put it in a hangar for avionics work? HAH! I started crimping center pins on coax lines on the AWADS RADAR system during one winter at Ramstein, circa 1979. It was so cold in the radome the solder iron wouldn't work. I think I've said on here before that it was always a break to have to work an enroute C141 when all the radar toads in the 435OMS were on leave or whatever. The crew chief usually had the APU running with the heat on.

You musta been a rich kid. Or... my dad was bull$h!tting us.

The radio was better on a C141, as there was a speaker in the fligth deck. We used to listen to AFN sports in Germany. The tuner of the DFA-73 was a bit better than the ARN-6, it had transistors. I still can't believe we have systems with vacuum tubes on our aircraft. It's a frikkin' travesty. But hey, we do have blue force tracker, SADL, Whizbang-the-crap-out-of-it-to display-it-on-the-RADAR-screen and do a temp install. If we could buy a frikkin vowel, or a war, it would be nice.

Eggsactly, it's the second harmonic of 121, the first is 242, the second is 363, the third is 484. Each harmonic is much weaker than the original frequency. The harmonics also work in reverse, Half of UHF 263 would be 131.5. The next time you are out on an airplane, try this. transmit on HF at 10 MHZ with the VOR on. If I remember correctly, all the marker beacon lights will come on. 10 MHZ is the IF freq of the MB receiver. Oh yea, HF 27.185 is channel 19 on the CB.

The already got the Nav's SCNS control panel out of it. It went to one of the refurbed birds. They sure did go all out on the old AWADS airframe that they just got. Dual INUs, APN241 RADAR, TAWS, etc. I wonder who paid that bill? And we can't get dual INUs. Oh wait, AMP!!

Yes, it's called a harmonic. That's just the way it is, there's no magic to it. That's why the ELT transmits at 121.5 only. It's also picked up on 243, the first harmonic. If you transmit on say 121.000, you can pick it up on UHF 363.000, the second harmonic.

I don't ever remember my dad buying us lunch here, or really anywhere else, on our long cross country PCS trips. My mom would always make sandwiches for us, after a stop at the grocery store. ..

Sorry, no luck with the T.O.s I must have deleted mine many years ago, and they are Ok City books, and I can't get to them. They are all on CD now, no printed material except for flight manuals. I'll send you a private messaeg with the T.O. manager's e-mail address. Maybe they can help you, or have your TODO order the CD. 1C-9A-2CD-1, 01T05558600000R.

Are the C12 Amps and Gyros compatible? Again, just more proof that installing a 2nd INU would have been a money saver. They could have done it during the autopilot mod.

This goes back to the mid 90's. Let's put dual INUs in all of the aircraft that don't have it, and get rid of the C12 compass. Ohhhh noooo, AMP is going to take care of that. Rrrrrrriiiiggghhht!

I may have most of the C9 T.O.s at work. Won't be back in until next week. I could have deleted them after we lost the Nightingales at Ramstein, I don't know. I can run it through the NATEC system too.

Too bad we didn't know you were looking for a specific piece on a line. With that info, we could have helped you out too. An AFETS Brethren

Welcome aboard, Jeff.

We aren't experiencing any cracks on the HC-130P, but then again, I don't think we pressurize that high on a continued basis. Square angles are not good, grasshopper.