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It sounds like you have a torching fuel nozzle. If your fuel nozzles are the duplex type, once the secondary nozzle kicks in, the spray pattern will change and voila! the problem goes away. It feels like a coking problem from here. I know you have no way to do a spread check on individual thermocouples, but I would pull and them look. I think you have may also a failed T/C, remember a failed T/C will drop the average across (what is it 16?) the harness assembly giving you a lower temperature. But, is this temp issue only during start?If so, a torching nozzle could direct the flame pattern within the combustion chamber away from the T/C also giving you a lower temp.

I wonder if a more direct comparsion might be with the C-17? The big thing will be field length and fuel burn. I guess I have to do some research.

I would highly suggest speaking directly to LMCO about these upgrades.

Ouch! We calibrated that unit for you at no charge. BTW, a good trim might drop fuel a few PPH.

Great to read a quote from Boyd. He is one of my all time heroes. Sometimes I believe we are incapable of producing anyone like him when they\'re needed. I highly recommend that folks here read up on him.

I highly suggest that folks here go back and read the readers comments about the article. I for one am proud to served a country that enabled us to produce some of the extremely profound thinkers that posted on the article. :P

Hey, Don\'t forget you have that JA-36 jetcal down there. You should be able to get a good trim using the basic accessories. That should help you keep the engine on wing a little longer.

\"I\'m 17, taking lessons in a C172R and working at a local FBO.\" That got me thinking, when I was his age I had to work at the FBO for about 9 hours for one hour in the 172. ($4.50 an hour, minimum wage was $2.25(?)) At the current rates for a 172 in my area, a kid would have to be making $14.00 an hour. I doubt he\'s making anything like that at 17. Thats dedication. If anybody here is in the DFW area would like to support kids in aviation there is a new school for city youth in Dallas. The program is designed to give a kid an A & P and upto a commercial license. The Claude R. Platte Future Pilots School can be found at www.crpfuturepilots.com I am getting into the cycle to perform maintenance and inspections for the school aircraft as a volunteer.

This guy is for real. He writes for Squadron Signal and I have his P2V book from Schiffer.

I can understand why intel might be concerned. But,if you follow that logic, no active duty military should be blogging or sending email. In fact, this forum could also be shut down. (In no way am I suggesting that!) It still boils down to watching what you say or how you say it. I

There is also a sister page for Navy folks. I have been a member for about a year and amazed by the number of people I have reestablished contact with.

here is another link http://www.airforce.dnd.ca/1wing/news/releases_e.asp?cat=12&id=6029

Casey: Thank you for the time an effort to do this. I am enjoying the reading just as a \"this where we\'ve been\". Thanks and regards!!

Try the this link to tbrooks art. http://www.brooksart.com/ASX-Miltrans.html They have a couple of nice prints in different price ranges. Dru Blair is good for an open addition. The Robert Taylor will probably appreciate in value on the secondary mark. I have always like Cohen, and his view from the cockpit is pretty good.

HerkPFE wrote: Don\'t ever mess with the rice bowls of our glorious civil servants. If a program crossed over into their branch, they would be out of a job!

Along the same vein. Like you might be an airplane mechanic if... There is alot of truth HOW TO SIMULATE LIFE IN THE NAVY 1. Buy a dumpster, paint it gray and live in it for 6 months straight. 2. Run all of the piping and wires inside your house on the outside of the walls. 3. Pump 10 inches of nasty, crappy water into your basement, then pump it out, clean up, and paint the basement \"deck gray.\" 4. Every couple of weeks, dress up in your best clothes and go the scummiest part of town, find the most run down, trashy bar you can, pay $10 per beer until you\'re hammered, then walk home in the freezing cold. 5. Perform a weekly disassembly and inspection of your lawnmower. 6. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays turn your water temperature up to 200 degrees, then on Tuesday and Thursday turn it down to 10 degrees. On Saturdays, and Sundays declare to your entire family that they used too much water during the week, so all showering is secured. 7. Raise your bed to within 6 inches of the ceiling. 8. Have your next-door neighbor come over each day at 5am, and blow a whistle so loud that Helen Keller could hear it and shout \"Reveille, Reveille, all hands heave out and trice up\". 9. Have your mother-in-law write down everything she\'s going to do the following day, then have her make you stand in the back yard at 6am and read it to you. 10. Eat the raunchiest Mexican food you can find for three days straight, then lock yourself out of the bathroom for 12 hours, and hang a sign on the door that reads \"Secured-contact OA division at X-3053.\" 11. Submit a request form to your father-in-law, asking if it\'s ok for you to leave your house before 3pm. 12. Invite 200 of your not-so-closest friends to come over, then board up all the windows and doors to your house for 6 months. After the 6 months is up, take down the boards, wave at your friends and family through the front window of your home...you can\'t leave until the next day, you have duty. 13. Shower with above-mentioned friends. 14. Make your family qualify to operate all the appliances in your home (i.e. Dishwasher operator, blender technician, etc.). 15. Walk around your car for 4 hours checking the tire pressure every 15 minutes. 16. Sit in your car and let it run for 4 hours before going anywhere. This is to ensure your engine is properly \"lighted off.\" 17. Empty all the garbage bins in your house, and sweep your driveway 3 times a day, whether they need it or not. (Now sweepers, start your brooms, clean sweep down fore and aft, empty all shitcans over the fantail) 18. Repaint your entire house once a month. 19. Cook all of your food blindfolded, groping for any spice and seasoning you can get your hands on. 20. Use eighteen scoops of budget coffee grounds per pot, and allow each pot to sit 5 hours before drinking. 21. Have your neighbor collect all your mail for a month, read your magazines, and randomly lose every 5th item. 22. Spend $20,000 on a satellite system for your TV, but only watch CNN and the Weather Channel. 23. Avoid watching TV with the exception of movies, which are played in the middle of the night. Have the family vote on which movie to watch and then show a different one. 24. Have your 5-year-old cousin give you a haircut with goat shears. 25. Sew back pockets to the front of your pants. 26. Spend 2 weeks in the red-light districts of Europe, and call it \"world travel.\" 27. Attempt to spend 5 years working at McDonalds, and NOT get promoted. 28. Ensure that any promotions you do get are from stepping on the dead bodies of your co-workers. 29. Needle gun the aluminum siding on your house after your neighbors have gone to bed. 30. When your children are in bed, run into their room with a megaphone, and shout at the top of your lungs that your home is under attack, and order them to man their battle stations. (\"General quarters, general quarters, all hands man your battle stations\") 31. Make your family menu a week ahead of time and do so without checking the pantry and refrigerator. 32. Post a menu on the refrigerator door informing your family that you are having steak for dinner. Then make them wait in line for at least an hour, when they finally get to the kitchen, tell them that you are out of steak, but you have dried ham or hot dogs. Repeat daily until they don\'t pay attention to the menu any more so they just ask for hot dogs. 33. When baking a cake, prop up one side of the pan while it is in the oven. Spread icing on real thick to level it off. 34. In the middle of January, place a podium at the end of your driveway. Have you family stand watches at the podium, rotating at 4-hour intervals. 35. Lock yourself and your family in your house for 6 weeks. Then tell them that at the end of the 6th week you\'re going to take them to Disneyland for \"weekend liberty.\" When the end of the 6th week rolls around, inform them that Disneyland has been canceled due to the fact that they need to get ready for Engineering-certification, and that it will be another week before they can leave the house. 36. In your grim, gray dumpster (refer to #1), with 200 of your not-so-closest friend (cite para. 12) regardless of gender, suffer through PMS! 37. Sleep on the shelf in your closet. Replace the closet door with a curtain. Have you wife whip open the curtains about 3 hours after you go to sleep. She should then shine a flashlight in your eyes and mumble \"Sorry, wrong rack.\" 38. Renovate your bathroom. Build a wall across the middle of your bathtub, move the shower head to chest level. When you take showers, make sure you shut off the water while you soap down. 39. When there is a thunderstorm in your area, find a wobbly rocking chair and rock as hard as you can until you become nauseous. Have a supply of stale crackers in your shirt pocket. 40. Put lube oil in your humidifier and set it on high. 41. For ex-engineering types: leave the lawn mower running in your living room eight hours a day. 42. Have the paperboy give you a haircut. 43. Once a week, blow compressed air up your chimney, making sure the wind carries the soot onto your neighbors’ house. Ignore his complaints. 44. Every other month buy green or red marine primer and put it in a paint sprayer. Spray it over the roof of your house onto your neighbors’ car. Ignore his complaints. 45. Lock wire the lug nuts on your car. 46. Buy a trash compactor, but use it only once a week. Store the garbage on the other side of your bathtub. 47. Get up every night around midnight and have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on stale bread. 48. Set your alarm clock to go off at random during the night, jump up and get dressed as fast as you can making sure you button up the top button on your shirt, stuff you pants into your socks. Run out into the backyard and uncoil the garden hose. 49. Once a month, take every major appliance apart and put them back together again. 50. Install a fluorescent lamp under the coffee table and then get under it and read books. 51. Raise the thresholds and lower the top sills of your front and back doors so that you either trip or bang your head every time you pass through one of them. 52. Every so often, throw the cat in the pool and shout, \"Man overboard, starboard side\" Then run into the house and sweep all the pots and dishes off the counter. Yell at the wife and kids for not having the kitchen \"stowed for sea.\" 53. Put on the headphones from your stereo set, but don\'t plug them in. Hang a paper cup around your neck with string. Go stand in front of yours stove. Say ... to no one in particular \"Stove manned and ready\" Stand there for three or four hours. And say again to no one in particular \"stove secured.\" Roll up your headphones and paper cup and place them in a box.

(Boy is that pork politics!!) We used to call it the BRAP commitee. Base Realignment And Pork

HerkPFE wrote: \"...there could be another explanation for these prop arc incidents... ...I believe Darwin called it \'natural selection\'...\" Thats probably why we did not allow commissioned aircrew unescorted on the flight deck.

Yep, we had a CFI walk into a prop one night because he thought he had gone far enough out of the arc. He gashed up his right arm but survived. Like your 1900 incident, he did not belong in aviation either. (Geez, that was in Chicago too! wonder if they were family?) I may also be influenced by CV ops. On a flight deck at night, you really can\'t see, hear or feel alot of details. You just gotta watch movements and the yellow shirts. But it just boils down to: I think paranoia is good thing on the flight line, and I\'ll take the teasing for being that way.

Yup, but if you work around different engine types, it\'s still not a bad idea to automatically stay out of the arc. If you are out of the arc.. you won\'t walk into it at night when you can\'t see it. There are still occasions where it happens.

FYI to all the civil L382 operators: URL: http://rgl.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guidance_Library/rgADNPRM.nsf/0/857F98E4F0FF8131862573EE005C7AE7?OpenDocument ADDRESSES: You may send comments by any of the following methods: Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the instructions for submitting comments. Fax: 202-493-2251. Mail: U.S. Department of Transportation, Docket Operations, M-30, West Building Ground Floor, Room W12-140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590. Hand Delivery: U.S. Department of Transportation, Docket Operations, M-30, West Building Ground Floor, Room W12-140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays. For service information identified in this AD, contact Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, 86 South Cobb Drive, Marietta, Georgia 30063. Examining the AD Docket You may examine the AD docket on the Internet at http://www.regulations.gov ; or in person at the Docket Management Facility between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays. The AD docket contains this proposed AD, the regulatory evaluation, any comments received, and other information. The street address for the Docket Office (telephone 800-647-5527) is in the ADDRESSES section. Comments will be available in the AD docket shortly after receipt. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Carl Gray, Aerospace Engineer, Airframe Branch, ACE-117A, FAA, Atlanta Aircraft Certification Office, One Crown Center, 1895 Phoenix Boulevard, suite 450, Atlanta, Georgia 30349; telephone (770) 703-6131; fax (770) 703-6097. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: We proposed to amend 14 CFR part 39 with a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) for an AD for all Lockheed Model 382, 382B, 382E, 382F, and 382G series airplanes. The NPRM was published in the Federal Register on November 14, 2007 (72 FR 64005). The NPRM proposed to require revising the FAA-approved maintenance inspection program to include inspections that will give no less than the required damage tolerance rating for each structural significant item (SSI), doing repetitive inspections to detect cracks of all SSIs, and repairing cracked structure. The NPRM action invites comments on the overall regulatory, economic, environmental, and energy aspects of the proposed AD. Actions Since NPRM Was Issued Since we issued the NPRM, we have received one comment. Lynden Air Cargo requests an additional 45 days to comment on the NPRM. Lynden Air Cargo states that it needs more time to: Review Lockheed Martin Model 382, 382B, 382E, 382F, and 382G Series Aircraft Service Manual Publication (SMP), Supplemental Structural Inspection Document, SMP 515-C-SSID, Change 1, dated September 10, 2007 (referred to the NPRM as the appropriate source of service information for accomplishing the proposed actions). Lynden Air Cargo states that the service information was not made available by the Type Certificate holder until December 18, 2007. Comment about the conclusion in the Regulatory Evaluation (located in the docket) that the NPRM does not affect intrastate aviation in Alaska. Lynden Air Cargo states that its military operations in Alaska account for some 4.5 million pounds of lift per year. Review service difficulty reports to validate the presence of an unsafe condition relating to the affected airplanes. Lynden Air Cargo states that it does not appear that the requirements of the NPRM are based upon any unsafe condition related to a particular type design. It is our intent to address the identified unsafe condition in a timely manner with minimum disruption to industry. We encourage interested parties to continue to evaluate the NPRM and to submit additional comments with more specific details concerning issues that we may need to evaluate before finalizing decisions on the proposal. We have determined that such input may be beneficial before adoption of a final rule. As a result, we have decided to reopen the comment period for 45 days to receive additional comments. No part of the regulatory information has been changed; therefore, the NPRM is not republished in the Federal Register. Regulatory Information Regulatory Information Comments Due Date We must receive comments on this AD action by March 31, 2008. Footer Information Footer Information Issued in Renton, Washington, on February 7, 2008. Kevin Hull, Acting Manager, Transport Airplane Directorate, Aircraft Certification Service. [FR Doc. E8-2742 Filed 2-12-08; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4910-13-P Comments Comments Not Applicable

Please post your part numbers.

I read the report, but I ddn\'t see Pierce Aviation Services mentioned at all.

Jeez, I sure would be pissed if as a guest of the U.S. I got flown around in Europe in a C-130 instead of one those nice Gulfstreams that are also used. The seating is so much better.

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