Dan Wilson

OUCH, do you need a cup of coffee this morning?

You sound like an FE, if so I would recommend getting ahold of a 6cf-1 TO for your particular aircraft. This will give you all the goodie numbers you need to know about power differences between the engines., Torque indicators are your PRIMARY power indicators, so when you line up engines you really need to either line up torque or line up TIT (most common) but not fuel flow. Back when we had to use them for fuel usage logs we had to go by them (FF indicator) but for some reason I never really trusted the FF indicator as much as the other indicators or accurate numbers. Some difference is normal, all four of your engines are going to have much different hours and cycles on them (sometimes tens of thousands of hours) giving you much different wear patterns and % efficiency on all four. In the end the 6CF-1 for your aircraft will give you all the specific numbers and notes. Dan

Sorry to disagree with you but if you believe that your either new to the bird or ignorant of the systems. Just like your family car, if you get a shimmy, shake, rattle and roll in a specific speed ranges then its either your tires or bearings 90% of the time. Same with the aircraft, most nose wheel shimmy's are cured by simply changing out the NLG tires and bearings, NOT the control valve.

For the same reason my brother, a qualified diesel truck mechanic, ended up as a crew chief on F-15's instead in motor pool where he belonged. Lets waste money and time instead!!! Since mid November we have now had 7 days that the ground was not completely covered in snow, anywhere from 1 foot to 4 foot of snow. Its nice but it will also be nice to work on my house in temps above the teens or twenty's (not to mention having to thaw frozen water pipes and a frozen washing machine several times a week).

According to MACR 55-130 (at the time) Anti-Hijacking weapons were to be loaded with three "short stop" rounds (frangables) and three hollow points, but in practice I never saw a "short stop" round, they were all six hollow points, man that caused a sh*t storm when we showed up for Gulf War 1, they were freaking about hollow points and the Geneva Convention - what a joke. Yep, drugs and considering the time-frame most likely heroin. Man do I second that one, late night flights and really crabby old men missing out on thier naps are not likely to have much sypathy with some terrorist moron, "damn you, you think you want to kill me for allah, hell man try sever sciatica for a real basis for snuffing your caveman ass." I found the same thing after a shuttle to Rafah, except it was an M-60 E whaterver, the load and I were cutting cards to see who got to keep it when they finally showed up to re-claim it - damn it!! later during the Sarajevo runs in 92, I always checked the gun box on my preflight and one day, lo and behold, there were seven pistols just sitting there in the unlocked box. The load or FE or whoever actually got his lock off but complely blew off getting the guns out. The base pigs kinda freaked when I came in to turn in my pistol after flight - I cleard mine, then pulled one out of each of my pockets to clear, kind of like a magic show when the magician pulls that fifity yard scarf out of his sleve. The didnt think I would ever stop pulling out pistols to clear LOL. HAH HAH, thats one reason I have the ol lady mail me my P 38 and a hundred rounds when I was in the desert for Gulf War! They can keep thier "combat load" of .38 pistol and twevle rounds!!!

Sounds like he was an E-Flight guy, not a clue what they did or if its still classified or not. Sorry I can't help you more than that, hopefully the classification has been downgraded and someone here can get with you online or offline and give you the info you would like to know. Good Luck Dan

Fortunately my hearing when I retired (after 5K hours in the herk) was better than when I joined 24 years earlier, (and I didnt wear earplugs under my david clarks you college yuppies) but now I did get 10% right off the bat for bi-lateral tinitus. You will usually be told that the max % you can get for hearing is 20 - 30 % BUT I have a buddy (ex SeeBee) who is now 100% Permanent and Total just for hearing and he didn't seem to have a big problem getting it (bastard, I had to fight for 4 years to get my 100% because the St. Pete admin jerks are morons), you may want to hit your local state VA rep, they are pretty much a straight line to the regional Admin klowns, just like the AL, and DAV. Good luck, it seems like disability packages are controlled by a flip of the coin, some get what they want and more right off and others have to fight for years?!?!? Dont forget your congressman, I am sure that Jeff Miller was glad to see me move out of Florida as I got a whole lot of mileage out of his office LOL It also depends on which region your in, I loved the VA healthcare in the Florida area, then when I get up here in yankeeland its totally FUBAR, just like all the horror stories I have head about the VA and had never seen until I got here.

I was under the impression that the J's had the standard CWB (not the beefed up beastie but standard trash hauler stuff) for the first several years of production before the incorporated the SOF style/type CWB. But I am in no way a J expert, that's just what I have read

Ahh I have fond memory's of the expediters truck. On cold Oklahoma nights we would all cram into the truck for our smoke breaks, imagine a bread truck with 8-10 dudes smoking and the single non-smoker gagging his head off!! Open the door and the smoke rolling out of the truck would put Cheech and Chong to shame LOL Had my turn at driving and running that damn grease board, was always glad to get back to the planes.

Well there's always drunken naked runs along the beach, good time would be about noon on a warm Sunday Another favorite of visitors is visiting the inside of the local pokey (see suggestion above). I really couldn't tell you even though I lived in the area from 93 until last July, I long ago stopped going down that way since if you even think about creeping over to the Destin side of the island you might as well walk. Seems like it was always damn bumper to bumper creep to get anywhere. The Boat House in Niceville is a pretty fun place, I dont know if Hogs Breath or any of the other popular watering holes are still open on the island or not. Just remember, if your going to buy booze, drugs, hookers, (insert other illicit activity here) your dealing with Cash Moore, call him boss hog (not joking, welcome to the South). If you get the chance to travel for a couple hours I highly recommend "Battleship Park" in Mobile, you will not be disappointed. On your way back go to Lamberts Cafe in Foley AL. " Home of the Throwed Roll", when you leave that place you feel like your gut is going to explode like a head in scanners!! Other non-drinking/whoring things in the area non to miss are the Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola and the outstanding Air-park at Hurlburt.

flushable toilet? Jeeez the worlds getting soft. Oh on the fleet guys not wanting to take the honey bucket bag with them, I had no sympathy for those klowns, I did four years of driving a turd hearse to dump them commercial jons on the E3A's (still had the commercial 707 toilets back and urinal up front). Sure as anything the fittings and hoses all leaked (more likely poured out on some of the hearse's). Play around in other peoples poop long enough and you dont pay much attention to it after awhile (I was an illegal plumber with my plumber uncle all through high school - lots of poop there and even more money)..

I guess I am the oddball as I have kept all my road treasures from over the years (except what has been stolen in robberies and PCS moves, damn thieving German movers) My place is usually decorated in early American MAC LOL Greek wall plates and jugs from Crete, puzzle rings, rugs, meerschaum pipes, brass crap from "Rip Off Alley" outside the "Lik" in Turkey African masks, ebony Gazelle bookends, malachite chess sets and figurines from several country's in "the Dark Continent" Tapestires and Rugs, brass crap, raghead clothes, gold and a really really nice counterfeit Brietling watch from Arabia as well as dozens of bottles of perfume essential oils from Bahrain. Mushroom hat from Afghanistan God I dont know what else, everything is either boxed up or still in FL and my memory is really really bad anymore.

How come all the really cool and fun flying things are also the really stupid and really dumb things to do? I always loved flying stupid :)

Nice video Koen, thanks. He may have been checking the fuel manifold accumulator located behind on of the air deflector doors.

As always, great work Bob!! Thanks

More than one time I would hang out in the Loads office after a flight taste testing a dozen 1868's only to realize later I was still packing heat. No problem, just went home with the damn thing and turned it in nice and sober like in the morning.

When I moved to W. Germany to the 37th TAS the load and FE had to get a .38 out of the armory for every flight!! Seems the regs said if you were landing at a an overseas base you had to pack heat, so that meant we had to be armed even for a Pilot Pro. In the first gulf war we went to war with a .38 each and 12 bullets -WOW they had better not mess with me huh? I had the wife mail me my P38 and a hundred rounds of ammo and left the .38 with my junk back at base. Just after the Gulf War, May 01, we got rid of the .38's and went to that wimpy little 9mm and one mag of ammo. When I came back to the states I move to AFSOC, they had just gotten rid of the shotguns but we still had GAU's and 9mm's for everyone. It always scared the snot out of me when a zero had a gun, I have seen those guys trying to qualify - EEEEK

Y'all dont want to hear what I think about the E9 community

I know what you mean there, I was eligible to get a DFC (as the Primary spotter and director on a SAM launch in the stan) but the pilot blew it off and PCS'd. Everybody told me to write the package myself but I just couldn't do it. Yeah its a pisser.

I used to dread landing with a CB pulled for either the pumps or the indicators. Almost invariably the crew cheif or pointy head would run up to the flight deck and reset the breakers even before I got out of my seat It got too where I would grab them and tell them to wait until I got off the plane to do it!!! (there was only about a thousand warnings in the -5 ((I think that was the fuels TO)) saying this was a really bad thing to do).

Don I talked to Kurt about a month ago and he said he was just swamped and didnt have much time to play on the computer, I will try to touch base again with him today or tomorrow and will let you know.

Just got back to town so I hope y'all had a Merry Christmas and looking forward to a happy New Year (which to me is defined as Revolution )

I would tend to agree with the "no refuel" idea;fueling with the LE off will definitely make it a bugger (if not impossible) to get the LE back on. Hell they suck trying to put them back on without drooping the wings with fuel. Kind of on the same level as "dont tow with floor plates removed" Let em do it if they promise to put the LE back on themselves:) Sorry I cant help you with written references as I dont have access to all the really cool information anymore since I've been retired six years now.

Yep, did it more than a few times, it didn't really pull the ramp up a whole bunch but when your pumping that sucker any little bit helps