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CH-124 Sea King Historical Thread
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How many does Ukraine have now? 3 from the UK and 6 from Germany? Think they would trade 9 Sea Kings for 28 S-92s?
I wonder who bought up all the S-61Ns and Ts from the State Department after the whole Carson "thing?"
I jest...
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27 H-92s.
Just sayin…
Just sayin…
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True, sadly.
Plus, how many of them have a good chance of never actually flying again?
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For those of us not in the know, are you saying there's a non-zero number of our bespoke orphan fleet of unnamed maritime helicopters that will never fly again because of serious flaws that are irreparable and compromise flight safety despite the fact they're less than a decade old?
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Not saying.
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From my understanding, it’s also an issue in the Navy (ships subs with out enough crew, not enough spares, and outstanding work items) so that we have to have an all hands on deck to get each deployment out the door. Other fleets in the Air Force also seem to have different takes on the same issues, and the army seems to have a perennial battle with pers in lines and ongoing maintenance.
I feel my attempt at historical facts has been self sabotaged by going around the same buoy again, simply by bringing up a what if.
My bad…
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Do you have any pictures of the Sea Kings being assembled in Canada?
Were there decent simulators for the sensor operators to learn on?
Can't imagine the nausea sitting in the back of a helicopter looking at a screen or instruments.
Were there decent simulators for the sensor operators to learn on?
Can't imagine the nausea sitting in the back of a helicopter looking at a screen or instruments.
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I don’t have any pictures from United Aircraft but I can look in the archives.
There was a full simulator for the Sea King, without visuals. All the sensors were simulated except the FLIR; HELTAS had a separate part task trainer. The sensor sims were ok for procedures, but I wouldn’t call the environmental and target simulations high fidelity.
The only time I got air sick was my first instructional trip, when I wasn’t looking at the screens. As an instructor I delay backwards on the step into the cockpit. Nothing taking a break in the rear cabin with the door open didn’t fix.
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I am a stupid TACCO. I am not in 12 AMS or the WSM shop. Airworthiness is not my gig, is what I am saying.
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There is at least one picture in John Orr’s “Kings for a Reason”.
Colin Parkinson
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The framework Sea King that ARSBC was going to place on the Annapolis is going into storage as the BC government can't seem to issue a park permit to do so. Considering it's only bar steel welded together and is going onto an existing artificial reef and both fish biologists and FN are happy with it, they still can't get it together.
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That is pretty cool, Colin.
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So this got me thinking again...
We have a timeline of when all the equipment came and went, including the "modification number" (they weren't all CF or CD mods). We also need to do description of all the equipment (in both English and French) for the interactive display project. When the automated "crew" are using the equipment if you tap the touchscreen it will bring up a description of the equipment and what it is being used for.
I think I'll talk to the curator and host all of that on the museum website, including write-ups like this. Then we can cross link the timelines, write-ups, and descriptions.
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Cool.
