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[miniman82]

Originally Posted by Findm-Keepm

Yeah, the Anti-skid system, the servocylinders, and the AAS-38 FLIR all were POS.

Actually the servos never really gave us much trouble, it was the skid control box. It's analog when it needs to be digital, to do sampling and all that jazz. As for the FLIR- when it was up, it stayed that way all cruise. If it went down, you never saw it again.

a VFA "up" status meant it could fly a minimal tanker sortie - "Really up" and they would actually fly ordnance!

Maybe for the Legacy jets, our Supers were rarely in that category. In fact on my last outing with 154, we flew more in country hours than all the others COMBINED. Even dropped a pair of 1000 pounders on our last run.

[Findm-Keepm]

Originally Posted by miniman82

Maybe for the Legacy jets, our Supers were rarely in that category. In fact on my last outing with 154, we flew more in country hours than all the others COMBINED. Even dropped a pair of 1000 pounders on our last run.

You're right - I just now noticed the E/F - saw them only with the Test Wing at Pax River - 90% were project birds and couldn't go the AIMD route for parts. Of those few others, we got only a handful of parts - the rest went to Oceana or depot.

All of my time with Hornets was with A and C birds - 4 deployments - Navy with the Cs and the Marines with the As. They were our number one customers. Same CAG for 3 of the deployments, and one VFA outfit was worst on all three. Sucketh maximus.

Cheers,