IFF Motivational Video
07-26-2015, 01:30 PM
#22
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Originally Posted by T45Heinous
Different pop attack...we always did the multiplane low level pop attack, but the WEPS pop attack with MK-76s is a fairly recent addition to the syllabus and a totally different animal than the recce, I got to do the validatation hops at VT-7 a few years ago, before we rolled it out to the SNAs...most fun with clothes on...as the saying goes!!
07-26-2015, 01:32 PM
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Originally Posted by UAL T38 Phlyer
That WAS my squadron!! Pilot training, not IFF, for a Japanese student. The IP's callsign was Satan, even BEFORE this happened.
T-38 A/C is mediocre at best, so students put it full-cold. This makes it ice-up and clog. The technique to thaw the ice is to go full-hot, but the A/C has a nasty habit of the mixing valve getting STUCK there.
The real solution was a) don't put it quite full-cold, and b) don't go full hot, and c) be ready to hold it in MANUAL COLD for 6.9 seconds if it runs away hot!
Satan is screaming "shut the heat off!" Like all Japanese students, they interpret things literally, and he can not find anything labelled "OFF."
Ironically, if he had said "RAM DUMP!", the kid would have thrown one switch, shutting down the A/C, and problem solved.
This happened about 10 years ago, and students still got Friday Nametags with a callsign, which stemmed from a naming ceremony based on funny stories of buffoonery and laced with lots of alcohol.
This kid's nametage was "O-F-F," (With hyphens), pronounced "OHH EFF EFF!"
Satan supposedly was at Air Tran/SWA. I've heard that tape is used at FedEx for a CRM what NOT to do.
T-38 A/C is mediocre at best, so students put it full-cold. This makes it ice-up and clog. The technique to thaw the ice is to go full-hot, but the A/C has a nasty habit of the mixing valve getting STUCK there.
The real solution was a) don't put it quite full-cold, and b) don't go full hot, and c) be ready to hold it in MANUAL COLD for 6.9 seconds if it runs away hot!
Satan is screaming "shut the heat off!" Like all Japanese students, they interpret things literally, and he can not find anything labelled "OFF."
Ironically, if he had said "RAM DUMP!", the kid would have thrown one switch, shutting down the A/C, and problem solved.
This happened about 10 years ago, and students still got Friday Nametags with a callsign, which stemmed from a naming ceremony based on funny stories of buffoonery and laced with lots of alcohol.
This kid's nametage was "O-F-F," (With hyphens), pronounced "OHH EFF EFF!"
Satan supposedly was at Air Tran/SWA. I've heard that tape is used at FedEx for a CRM what NOT to do.
07-27-2015, 04:40 PM
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Originally Posted by BDGERJMN
I have no idea what IFF is
The actual syllabus is tailored to the mission set of the specific aircraft a student is assigned as a follow-on.
The focus is on teaching a student how to transition from being a vanilla "T-38 pilot" into being a "fighter wingman", so there is a lot of attitude and mentality adjustment that is a large component of the program, too.
07-29-2015, 05:12 AM
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Originally Posted by hindsight2020
Raise your hand if your neck/discs want do that job til 57......
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