Air Force investigating intermittent engine failure on aircraft.

"SPLASH-TWO" wrote in message
...
Air Force trouble shooters cannot figure out why No.1 engine keeps
shutting down......

I believe that's a Navy P-3.

Sure is.

Mike Henley wrote:
"SPLASH-TWO" wrote in message
...
Air Force trouble shooters cannot figure out why No.1 engine keeps
shutting down......

I believe that's a Navy P-3.

With a ltJG as aircraft commander?

David Hartung wrote
With a ltJG as aircraft commander?

Could be....but when I served as a P-3 Patrol Plane Commander,
unlike airline practice, we rotated seats with all of the pilots
on the crew. Alan, Rick, and Mal got as much time in the left
seat as I did. Al Anderson, the assigned SIC was also rated as
a PPC and I felt quite comfortable seated in the cabin while he
and Rick or Mal flew routine flights.

Bob Moore
VP-46 1965-1967
PanAm (retired)

Bob Moore wrote:

David Hartung wrote
With a ltJG as aircraft commander?

Could be....but when I served as a P-3 Patrol Plane Commander,
unlike airline practice, we rotated seats with all of the pilots
on the crew. Alan, Rick, and Mal got as much time in the left
seat as I did. Al Anderson, the assigned SIC was also rated as
a PPC and I felt quite comfortable seated in the cabin while he
and Rick or Mal flew routine flights.

Bob Moore
VP-46 1965-1967
PanAm (retired)



And in many cases, the enlisted crew (and guests) got some right seat time...

JT

Grumpy AuContraire wrote
And in many cases, the enlisted crew (and guests) got some right seat
time...

Naw! Mine got "left seat" time.....and thought that they were
great pilots with the "control wheel stearing" ON. :-)

Bob

Two points - First, the fact that she's in the left seat doesn't imply she's
the PPC. Seat rotation is quite routine in the VP community. Second, as a
former VP Commanding Officer, we always tried to have at least one crew for
a first tour (read LTJG) PPC in the P3. Earlier in the twelve plane SP-2H
outfits, we frequently had two or sometimes three first-tour guys with
crews.

Boomerang wrote:
Two points - First, the fact that she's in the left seat doesn't imply she's
the PPC. Seat rotation is quite routine in the VP community. Second, as a
former VP Commanding Officer, we always tried to have at least one crew for
a first tour (read LTJG) PPC in the P3. Earlier in the twelve plane SP-2H
outfits, we frequently had two or sometimes three first-tour guys with
crews.

Thanks for the education.

With all due respect and as a matter of possible interest, even though this
may be a shopped photo, she's flying with number one feathered, probably on
station, a completely normal situation for economical station keeping. Lots
of P3 drivers take great pains in this mode to remember in an emergency that
number one's caged and NOT reach for that yellow handle when you need to
feather one of the others. I knew a guy who put his ball cap on the number
one engine handle for that purpose, and if the purse works for her, so what?

On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 20:50:20 +0000, Harriet and John wrote
(in message ):

feather one of the others. I knew a guy who put his ball cap on the number

It's childish, I know, but this put me in mind of Buster Gonad,
seen here on the nose of an RAF Jaguar during Operation Granby,
1990-91.

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