Dan Wilson

The crash your talking about was the opening day of their ORI as well, great way to start eh LOL

So do us old fart retirees have to get a new card or not? I have done a search and have only found "new paperwork required for an ID card", nothing about everybody needing a new card. I guess if I need a new one it will be a good reason to check out the awesome looking air-park at Griffis.

Yep, thats a Finnish Lahti, its a nice little 20mm just right for squirrel hunting and the like Unfortunately you have to dump 200 clams to the gubbermint for a tax stamp since its bigger than 50 cal. Yes, its on my "I Want" list, you can get them for around 5 or 6 grand

Like I said, damage or not really depends on two things. Gross Weight and Runway condition, a wet runway you could lock and skid pretty easy and same with a heavy gross weight. But with a fairly light gross weight, like under a 100K the brakes tend to just stop the plane pretty damn quick before the brakes really have a chance to lock up. Made FCF's hell, and almost every FCF I preformed I would have to annotate "unable to get anti skid action due to light gross weight"

Thinking back now, when I was with the 7th ACCS, all the birds still had the armor around the LOX converter. For some reason when they pulled the rest of the armor they never removed it from around the converter.

Yep, as soon as the pilot hits the start button he states "turning" to give the loadmaster a start time for his five second countdown. This way the load has a reference for how long the start button has been pushed in.

I Know, it takes forever to get paid when I file for travel from my clinic at South Bend but at least when i go to Ft. Wayne they pay right there at a cashiers window. I will say that I was really spoiled with the VA down in the panhandle of FL, always "thank you for your service, what can we do for you?" When I moved up here to IN, it was like, "why are you wasting my time, aint you dead yet you parasite?" it takes forever to get anything done and its a friggin joke - Its just like the the nightmare VA I have always heard of!!! Danke Gott that I have Medicare/Tricare for life and dont have to deal with the VA except for meds. I made the mistake of trying to get Pain Management through the VA up here (I currently take 60mg of Percocet and 30mg of morphine a day for pain), went to Indy and they said they dont do pain meds (this is pain management) they think it counterproductive to a comprehensive pain management regime - what friggin idiots.

Assault qual. comes in under the standard trash hauler "Tactical Qual" and no Special Ops kinda qual. involved. NVG's may be a different story, I am not sure if that is now a standard Tac Qual. or not nowadays. Dan

But honestly, by the time I retired in 04 the 08/09 crowd honestly disgusted me, out of all that I knew in my career there were only two chiefs and the rest were only E9's!! Nothing was about helping the troops or looking out for the troops, it was all about power and position. If I Offended you as a retired Chief, sorry, but if you were a good one you were standing out in the crowd for sure. The last three years I declined to test for E8 (that's how disgusted I was), nobody could believe it though, I kept getting no show notices even though my paperwork was marked "I Decline....." Oh well that's all in my past, now my life is all about lots of pain meds and a whole lot of work on my termite heap, errr Victorian house that is.

HAH HAH Man thats a good one, seeing as how I found the house in the "This old House" magazine in their "save this old house" feature,

Real heavy gross weights are a huge player in the anti skid cycling as well. During FCF's your supposed to honk on the brakes until the anti skid cycles, BUT with the weight restrictions for a FCF you are never heavy enough to get the damn stuff to cycle. I have had Pilots put all their weight on the binders and all you do is stop, no anti skid function So I would say that if you have a normal bird, competent pilot and good runway you would only have to really worry about lacking anti skid on the heavier weight ops, normal to low weights I would give you a 10% risk factor operating without it. I am sure the old single disk brakes were hugely different but that's a guess. BUT the -1 and command guidance requires the anti skid as a safety measure so you still have to have it operational regardless

Donwon, The deductible has been there for a long time, what it sounds like to me is your VA there was screwing up and not taking the deductible and just now caught up to the system.

AAAAA BAT 60, the money run!!! d I remember the first 600 or so times I seen the Bat 60 bird; I was a nose pickin tire kicker (or so the pointy heads always said) on AWACS (you know, Hellen Keller) doing rotes to Riyahd in the early 80's. For four years they brought me the mail and jet parts, then in the late 80's, I was delivering the mail and parts to those same sorry guy's stuck in that crappy assignment. We had the "Bat Plaque" that we would put into the window of the bird, yellow with a batman symbol on it; also the "Batmobile"; it was like a 79 impalia station wagon with no brakes, no shocks and "some stearing capabilitys". Man the batmobile was fun, it was sooooooo dangerous we were not supposed to take it off the base but hell we drove that POS to Bahrain one night, even had the yellow light on top spinning the whole way Every missed meal was 75 clams and since we wernt allowed in the USMTM chow line all meals were missed, that was one fun money making trip. If you wanted to get a drink you just went across the compound to the GUTs Club. About a third of the cargo was "Tea", and in the compound the Saudi govt paid for anything you wanted to do. They had a broadcast station down in the basement and if you didnt like what was on the tube you called the little guy up down stairs and yelled at him to put on something else. They had a full ceramics shop, with instructor, a full photo development shop (I used that one a lot), a leather shop and they all had instructors, whaterver you did was free, supplies and all. Man lety me tell you, BAT 60 was the best deal going until the gulf war, not its a sh*t deal with no money or goodies involved

Naa dont need the Kanuk, I am planning on building laminated 2x12's and 3/4 inch plywood to replace the beams.

Check to make sure your oil cooler flap isn't opening too far, believe it or not if it opens too far it creates an airflow that will cause a air stall inside the cooler. If your running it with full open and it overheats, try closing the cooler to 90 or 95% and see if that cures the problem. Seen this a few times over the years.

Still here, had to do some major computer repairs, plus this ol possessed house is kicking my ass and finally had to have casey reappove me to post on the board. But here I are, my presense is going to be really spotty for a while, I just found out my entire house is basically structualy failed!!!! The house sits on top of a field stone foundation with a 10X10 hand hewn oak beam for the bottom plate/mud sill, and I found out they are ALL HOLLOW, completely eaten out by termites in the past. I found this out by accident when jacking one to level a room and the beam actually started collapsing on itself (ouch). Its not such a horrible thing to change but the enginnering of the repair will take me a while. The outer walls will be easy to change out (relativly) but the ones that are going to kick my butt are the two cross beams that support both the upstairs interior walls AND share the load for the Living Room, Parlor, Dining Room and stair case (OUCH). A little later on I will upload my pics so I can show you what I am talking about. Up until now I thought the cracks in the beams were simply shrinkage cracks, but once I found one beam with the termite damage I started sticking a screwdriver into all the other beams with cracks and damn it all, Hollow as hell. But thanks for the concern, I appreciate it :)

When I was hauling trash with the 37th in West Germany, the word green was a serious no no and could result in major financial damage at the bar!! So it wasnt really restricted to 141's. Most places had a special qual and training for LAPES, for me in the 37th my "training, and special qual" consisted of "Your doing Lapes tommorow, read chapter 37" (MACR 55-130). Boy that sucked, but once I got used to it, Lapes was fun as hell. The magnificent "Duke Bender" created a pretty good international incident there in Germany. They tried to do an actual with a triple heavy (36K) and had a "negative transfer, negative jettison" (or somthing like that) and they started the climb out from Geiblestat, and as soon as they cleared the airfield it was "Load Clear" - right into an Opel dealership!!!!!!!

Hey guys, I think I have some good stuff on this incident (we actually landed at Pease AFB as soon as they cleared the runway after this bird landed). But the info is on other computer in the house and I didnt share the drive on the network so I will have to wait until tommorow to get to the data. Got folks sleeping in the living room of the trailer and I am sitting here in the house. But in the meantime here is a link to all 35 pics I have of this mishap - enjoy and maybe tommorow I will have some printed material for you to read. http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v721/FTFFTW/Herk/Scratch%20and%20Dent%20Sale/73%201592%20EC%20H%20with%20thrown%20prop/?start=all

Sam Really bummed out hearing about the run around you are getting, they really sound like a bunch of clown acts for sure. When I first moved up here I tried to swtich from the Shalimar FL clinic to the the contract clinic in Southbend IN. Well it took a month to get the "authorization" for the clinic to treat me, then another two months for a "new patient" appointment. Big problem, I take 23 pills a day and the pain pills are the most important of the lot but will they write me a quicky script for my pain meds? Not a chance! They say "well you will have to go to the ER at Ft. Wayne", well thats only an hour and a half of driving in severe pain and then they will only give me a week or two of meds at a time!!! Its so bad here I finally said "screw it" and started going to town (Plymouth) and using my medicare and Tricare for all my stuff and just get scripts to take downtown to fill at wallgreens, paying the co-pay (it tends to get expensive with 23 differenty scripts - ouch) but I dont pull out that hair I dont have any more. The disability thing, let me tell you, when I submitted my packages and appeals and appeals and finally a court date at the appeals court, I would outline the physical/mental deficiency, give them the page and date in my medical records AND cross reference it with the CFR that covers the condition and they would reject it ever time like they didn't even bother to look at it because I lost the coin flip. Finally I wrote a letter for the wife and an old co-worker to sigh, sent them in and BANG, I am a 100% P&T !!!!What the hell is that all about???? oh well I got what I needed but understand it I dont. Sounds like you need a good heavy dose of Gabapentin, I take the max dose (3600mg a day) and it works like a dream for all the Neuopathy. I should still have a copy of the CFR giving all the tables and requirements if anybody should want a copy (it was hard as hell to find it, I think they tried to hide it) just email me and I will send it off to you, or I will put it up on my webserver, whatever is easier. My email is [email protected]`

Check the brush block, it may be getting ready to light off (brush block fires really look cool in-flight).

Is this a different system than that crap system they installed in all our HC's years ago, and you had to check out a 3000 dollar pair of bose headsets to use the damn thing.

The problem I find with this ideology is you are working with an "unknown" situation. Prop oil can leak on the far side of the nacelle where you can't see it OR if your rear lip seal blows it will dump into the pan under the gearbox and drain out back on the engine where you would'nt assosiate it with a prop leak. (you know that the rear lip seal is the PRESSURIZED sump, not the atmospheric sump. For some reason it seems logical to think of it the other way - atmospheric to the rear, but that's wrong. If you blow you pressurized sump seal its going to be a bad day. I have had low oil lights, pitchlocked props, low pitch stops fail to retract, underspeeds, overspeeds and just about every other bad day item in the book. That prop is very reliable but it can also munch your butt for dinner if it wants to. The main point of my rambling post here is you are honestly operating with an unknown condition, what if your problem. What would happen is just as the pilot is going into the landing flair and all of a sudden there isn't enough fluid to operate the piston and the prop goes to a really nice flat 23 degrees, that could very possibly cartwheel you down the runway. Thats why I would ALWAYS demand the pilot to shut it down before landing, you dont fool with props if you want to live to be old and crippled like me and thats why the operating manual recommends shutting it down before landing. If you pilot cant land on 3 engines in this plane he needs more sim time, the bird fly's great on three. Cruise is a different story, depending on the mission, whether its a critical "operation" or just hauling trash would help me in my decision to recommend the pilot to keep it running or shut it down.

Could a fault in the pressurization control panel cause this problem? There are (I think) two rubber diaphragms and rubber check valves in the box, its a good chance its 45 years old I know a lot of times low or no flow can be fixed with an adjustment, or R2 of the control panel. Those things are really really temperamental and its almost impossible to find someone who has the "magic fingers" to tune it golden. We used to get AWADS birds to pop the safety valve, then the magic tech rotated back to the states and we had to get used to 9 or 10 hg on the birds instead of 15.6 :(

From Personal Flight Test Experience - The individual light WILL flash when that wheel senses a skid during ground operations. This is a check for check flights from the 6CF-1 (your note or numbers are probably contained there, sorry I dont have a copy anymore) and I could be wrong but there are more than two circuit cards in the Anti-Skid control box, one card per wheel, the two you mentioned and I think there may be one or two more but not sure at this time. The hardest thing during a check flight was getting a pilot to actually mash down hard enough on the brakes to actually cycle them, also if you are light on dry runway it may even be almost impossible to get the anti skid to cycle, the heavier you are the more chance you have of cycling the system. I have all the Lockheed manuals in PDF on my laptop over in the house, when I go there in a bit I will open em up and look. Let us know what you find, interesting problem.