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Post by phil on Dec 8, 2022 23:26:03 GMT 12
I think someone's getting a wee bit ahead of themselves.
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Post by phil on Dec 4, 2022 17:42:18 GMT 12
How will the squadron operate during the transition? Will it be split between Whenuapai and Ohakea or are the Orions moving down with the arrival of the first P-8? PTU (Poseidon Transition Unit) has been stood up as a totally separate unit to the current 5SQN, and will operate the P-8A out of Ohakea. 5SQN will continue to operate the Orion for a short while. Once the last Orion is retired early next year, PTU will stand up as the new 5SQN.
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Post by phil on Nov 18, 2022 23:11:10 GMT 12
LSV is delivered in Auckland, Trentham and Burnham, it's tri service and it seems personnel can now remuster to LSV instructor as a trade. Of course every instructor at LSC COY is a qualified tradesperson not employed in his or her primary trade, that they no doubt have spent some years becoming qualified in.
I note National expect these camps to be run on NZDF bases. I'm sure all the airman living in crappy barracks will enjoy watching criminals being housed in new accommodation that will have to be built for them!
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Post by phil on Oct 31, 2022 20:34:02 GMT 12
"...hundreds of billions..." Seriously? That statement has credence? well she clearly didn't know anything about fighter jets when she was PM, you can't really expect her to start now.
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Post by phil on Oct 29, 2022 12:51:43 GMT 12
Have the RAF not cleared UNIPAC for their P-8A? Perhaps rather than the off the shelf US solution from LSI they are faffing around clearing this ASRA. Maybe they ordered it before the P-8A capability was planned? Wasn't it an add-on funded by Australia? The RAF also has a lot more A-400Ms than P-8As. Possibly, but UNI-PAC III is cleared now (as is the older, smaller, UNIPAC II). Possibly procurement delays with UNIPAC III may have pushed the RAF to ASRA.
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Post by phil on Oct 19, 2022 20:14:41 GMT 12
Have the RAF not cleared UNIPAC for their P-8A? Perhaps rather than the off the shelf US solution from LSI they are faffing around clearing this ASRA.
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Post by phil on Oct 5, 2022 19:38:30 GMT 12
Does anyone know why our aircraft lack the antenna between the observer’s window and the emergency exits. Two each side in a T shape 3/4 up the fuselage. If we’re getting USN specs why are they missing? Don't know but sniffing around google images I see it looks like the Indian AF ones also do not have these... everyone else's seem to! If we can establish how the IAF ones differ (other than them having a MAD)...!?! Indian P-8Is have very different mission systems to all the others. When were the photos of ours taken, before or after the mission systems fit? Those antenna may be GFE (Government Furnished Equipment) being installed as part of the Mission systems, and not yet installed at the point the basic airframes are being photographed.
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Post by phil on Sept 11, 2022 18:20:27 GMT 12
Probably better than having the aircraft followed by the ejection seat landing on him.
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Post by phil on Aug 20, 2022 0:30:20 GMT 12
The Defence select committee did (perhaps still does?) this. I followed them around one day when they did this at Waiouru. It would have been back in the early mid 2000s.
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Post by phil on Aug 8, 2022 22:16:07 GMT 12
How about the politicians all take airliners, and buy more Hercs for the troops? Herc and 757 fulfil different roles. 757 is strategic airlift. Herc is tactical. C17 would be the best bet for strategic airlift, but MRTT would make more sense in that it can refuel the P8.
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Post by phil on Jul 29, 2022 15:47:27 GMT 12
I was working on 11SQN when the RAAF introduced this, and I heard it all then. There was exactly the same rolling of eyes and the same points were brought up (ie Aviator is the male term, Aviatrix being the feminine version etc etc).
After about a year no one even notices any more, it's just the new normal.
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Post by phil on Jul 28, 2022 0:41:18 GMT 12
Surely this is a spoof? Are we going to blindly follow this woke nonsense like the mask-muppets follow the covid? No, and yes. RAAF did this about a year ago.
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Post by phil on Jul 23, 2022 12:48:20 GMT 12
Now all it needs is the mission systems installed and it will be ready to go, on track for Dec 13 delivery to Ohakea.
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Post by phil on Jul 6, 2022 19:23:19 GMT 12
lol, Andrea Shalal-Esa and Andrew Hay must be on crack!
It would be great to see, but really...
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Post by phil on Jul 2, 2022 11:20:33 GMT 12
The information in the article is actually quite specific to the USN P-8A upgrade path (and the future C-130J). The P-8A upgrades tend to be very mission system related, rather than airframe related.
One of the major issues with doing our own very large upgrades every couple of decades is the obsolescence problems and introducing what inevitably becomes an orphan platform with little OEM support.
As we have less an less organic ILM/DLM capability, when purchasing a platform we are now buying into the whole program much more than we used to, and upgrading in line with the major operators and leveraging off the USN (in the case of the P-8A) or OEM as the design organisation ensures we maintain the supportability for the life of type, and not get left behind operating systems for which the manufacturer no longer offers support.
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Post by phil on Jun 30, 2022 0:00:19 GMT 12
Tanker would be compatible with the P-8A.
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Post by phil on Jun 15, 2022 23:55:42 GMT 12
Jesus, talk about resurrecting a post from the depths of time...
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Post by phil on Jun 9, 2022 20:04:04 GMT 12
If my memory serves me, Slim was an Armourer. I believe he was a regular at Ohakea St Barbara's day celebrations.
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Post by phil on Jun 2, 2022 19:43:06 GMT 12
Te Whare Toroa - the home of the Albatross... nice touch. It translates to The Visiting House. I doubt anything will ever be given an English name in NZ again. Definitely translates to Home of the Albatross.
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Post by phil on May 29, 2022 20:11:33 GMT 12
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