Archa3opt3ryx Posted September 17, 2011 Share Posted September 17, 2011 Hearing rumors that the T-6 is grounded AF-wide. Anyone know what's going on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinny Posted September 17, 2011 Share Posted September 17, 2011 I think particulars are still privileged info. But I would say it's probably safe to remove the question mark from the thread title. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seriously Posted September 17, 2011 Share Posted September 17, 2011 Grounded. Flight control malfunction at Sheppard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoodSplash9 Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 Wow...thats bad news for UPT studs and the Air Force. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Dogs! Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 (edited) Anyone know if they can share anything more? I know a few guys in T6's at ENJJPT, just want to be sure everyone is alright. Edited September 18, 2011 by GuitarMan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DFRESH Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 Everyone is alright Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Dogs! Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 Everyone is alright Thanks, I appreciate it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClearedHot Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 (edited) Anyone know what's going on? Yes Edited September 18, 2011 by ClearedHot 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C-21.Pilot Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 Flight control malfunction, dual pilot inputs required to land the plane. No ETIC, but lots of rumors floating around. 19AF directed grounding UFN. BTW, is/did the Navy ground their fleet? And what about peeps in the AOR? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Scaredfuzz Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 From what we've been told here at Vance, is it takes 6 hours minimum per aircraft to inspect for the problem, no counting time to fix the problem if found. So hopefully the maintenance guys here are pressing hard this weekend, but even still it could be a couple days before they are full up again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BQZip01 Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 Flight control malfunction, dual pilot inputs required to land the plane. No ETIC, but lots of rumors floating around. 19AF directed grounding UFN. YIKES! Props to the pilots (pun intended). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitman Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 I heard there is a Tweetapalooza going down at DM tomorrow night and UPT will resume NLT Tues 20 Sept via T-37's. Any truth to that? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nunya Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 BTW, is/did the Navy ground their fleet? Yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
That Guy Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 From what we've been told here at Vance, is it takes 6 hours minimum per aircraft to inspect for the problem, no counting time to fix the problem if found. So hopefully the maintenance guys here are pressing hard this weekend, but even still it could be a couple days before they are full up again. The T-6 had a CFS issue around June 2010 when they grounded the whole fleet and made it sound like it was possibly weeks or months before studs would fly again esp to get some elusive part from the manufacturer. Everyone was back up the next week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HerkDerka Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 Fuck yo timeline! 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nunya Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 ###### yo timeline! Oh we'll make the timeline, even if we have to fly every weekend to do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SocialD Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 (edited) From what we've been told here at Vance, is it takes 6 hours minimum per aircraft to inspect for the problem, no counting time to fix the problem if found. So hopefully the maintenance guys here are pressing hard this weekend, but even still it could be a couple days before they are full up again. No worries, back when we lost those two 38s w/in a week, we were down for a while. No big deal...they'll just roll graduation back as required (two months for my class). Oh we'll make the timeline, even if we have to fly every weekend to do it. They threatened us with that too...never happened. Edited September 18, 2011 by SocialD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DFRESH Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 I heard there is a Tweetapalooza going down at DM tomorrow night and UPT will resume NLT Tues 20 Sept via T-37's. Any truth to that? Yup... we're all going back to tweets... they figure it's basically the same thing so we don't need to do any additional academics or anything. As for the student pilot, he's a friend of mine, I told him to quit breakin airplanes so I can get my dollar ride already... but yeah, some crazy control issues fo sho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BQZip01 Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 Oh we'll make the timeline, even if we have to fly every weekend to do it. Exactly! We will make the mission happen no matter what the costs are to morale! ROLL DOWN YOUR F***ING SLEEVES! [/chiefed] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bill Lumbergh Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 I heard there is a Tweetapalooza going down at DM tomorrow night and UPT will resume NLT Tues 20 Sept via T-37's. Any truth to that? Don't I wish...If you've been to DM in the last year, you might have noticed how quickly they are disappearing from the boneyard. Almost all of the tails from VN and most of the XL tails were gone when I was last there, with more on the way out every week. Three whole rows disappeared during my last deployment alone. Last I heard, they also had stopped the FCFs for the foreign military sales program, so I think it will be a long time before we hear that airplane flying over CONUS any time soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sky_king Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 Are the chopping them up or selling them off? I bet there's a few rich ass retired AF pilots that would love a personal T-37 for their hanger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Scaredfuzz Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 The T-6 had a CFS issue around June 2010 when they grounded the whole fleet and made it sound like it was possibly weeks or months before studs would fly again esp to get some elusive part from the manufacturer. Everyone was back up the next week. No worries, back when we lost those two 38s w/in a week, we were down for a while. No big deal...they'll just roll graduation back as required (two months for my class). Yeah I realize that the timeline is pretty subjective, just relaying what was passed to us. And I sure hope we don't get grounded that long to have to be rolled backed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spinner Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 Yeah I realize that the timeline is pretty subjective, just relaying what was passed to us. And I sure hope we don't get grounded that long to have to be rolled backed. Rolling back a class or two is the least of your problems. You should worry about retaining what you have already learned first. 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Scaredfuzz Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 Rolling back a class or two is the least of your problems. You should worry about retaining what you have already learned first. That is very true, not so concerned really with getting rolled back, it would suck but it sucks even more being out of the aircraft. Oh well looks like there's not gonna be an excuse for not knowing GK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BQZip01 Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 Coming soon (sts)to a flightline near you: no-notice ground testing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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