On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 02:51:39 GMT, Chad Irby wrote:

...and yet, on a weekly basis, we had a problem with pilots who couldn't
even do a correct built-in test on an ALR-46 system. And they'd write
it up as bad because they did it wrong (the description in the writeup
would be completely correct except for pressing one button). And we'd
test, it, it would work fine, and we wouldn't get another writeup on it
until that same guy went back on the plane.

Eglin AFB second half 1968. Some of the F-4E had a newer model of the
APS-107 installed. The cycle through the APR-36/37 mod line somewhere
was not exactly speedy so we had a mix of rhaw.
Write up - Can not turn on APR-36/37.
Fix - Turned on APR-107. Ops chk OK..
Good for a laugh, but I knew what the crews were going through.
Besides some of the APS-107 wouldn't even work. No spares so we robbed
boards from some of them to keep others running..

And you wouldn't *believe* how confused they got over the use of the
ALQ-119 pods.

They? Getting close to end of tour at Ubon in 1967 and we got in
either the QRC-160-8/ALQ-87. The 87 anyway. On failure it had some
weird light sequence on the pod control box. I don't remember any of
it at all, but it was something like this light on means something,
and this one blinking was some other failure. The first time I went in
debriefing for an ALQ-87 flight I saw the cheat sheet on the failure
light sequence and thought you have got to be kidding me. The guy in
back has to remember if lights are blinking and which one is on or
off!