On 4/4/04 9:47 AM, in article , "Tarver
Engineering" wrote:


"Doug "Woody" and Erin Beal" wrote in message
...
On 4/4/04 5:16 AM, in article
, "monkey"
wrote:

SNIP

err...read the post...like I said, I'm not an F/A-18 pilot, I'm a
CF-18 pilot...BITCH.
p.s. flew a great 2v2 today, what did you do, clown show?

Yep, this guy's a Hornet pilot. He certainly talks like one! Where are
you
stationed, Monkey? If Cold Lake, is Pat Peters still up there?

I don't know about the boy. If his story is true the Canadian Government
has dropped out of the rest of the community and stopped even mentioning the
mechanical stick backup. It is a safety of flight issue.



Missed the front part of the conversation, John. What exactly did he say?

The Mech flight control function isn't easily "eliminated" from the legacy
Hornet. It is still part of the FCF checklist, however and is checked on A
and C FCF's. (I fly so few B's that I haven't a clue if it's on that list.)
I don't personally find it very useful (my opinion only) which is, I think,
why it WAS eliminated from the Super Hornet.

In fact, I can only recall hearing of one Mech-Off-Off incident (i.e. down
to the stabs only for controlling the jet) in the F/A-18A-D, and the guy
flying it (USMC?) shelled out shortly after because of the resulting
oscillations.

--Woody