Posted on 04/06/2017 9:42:01 AM PDT by topher
How can you fly if you can’t breathe?
Just check the oxygen systems and fix them!!!
How is that so damn difficult???
According to the article “When a senior Navy pilot showed photos of a faulty oxygen system” What does a faulty Oxygen system look like? Doesn’t paste the sniff test. By the way all that has to be done is for the unit(s) is to request an Engineering Investigation (EI). Three incidents have been reported for CY 2017.
The NATOPS (flight manual) is written in blood. There is a problem which they are having trouble determining and fixing. These guys don’t want their name attached as a footnote a a new emergency procedure.
Just a few words from Mrs Pence seems to have turned the tide.
The system does not detect contaminants.
I was a U.S. Army basic training battery commander during the mid-2000s. I gave the newer version of that class.
Unlawful orders are a little like porn, you know them when you see them. Some examples:
-Needlessly destroying civilian property (purposefully destroying something that has no military value to an enemy, like artwork)
-Causing unnecessary human suffering: shooting people in parachutes and/or lifeboats, destroying civilian crops or cattle to create a famine, ordering or encouraging rape, etc...
-Ordering or coercing people to debase themselves (coercing sex from a subordinate or a refugee, humiliating prisoners without a military purpose, etc...)
-Using military personnel or property for personal profit or criminal acts (ordering your official driver to take your wife shopping, directing subordinates to falsify records, etc...)
-In this case, it would be unlawful to order a pilot to fly an aircraft they, in their professional judgement, believe is not fit to fly
Taking up an unsafe aircraft could be considered an illegal order, not to be followed. I am a retired Army Officer, we have the duty not to obey illegal orders.
The article says multiple pilots have passed out. It also says there are other incidents where the pilots did not pass not but had trouble flying because of the hypoxia.
I am not sure how contaminants are getting into the oxygen system, but these are very old jets.
A few years back, F-14's started having stress fractures that I believe grounded some of the F-14's (or all) until this could be checked out.
Here is a link to the Hannity.com article on Freerepublic:
There might have been. However, this might be an ‘age’ problem. Thirty-five years in service is a long time, and maybe some of the oxygen lines might have leaks to allow contaminants in.
I assure if a T-45 crashed with Mike Pence's son in it killing him, there would be quite the stink...
Geez, I worked on the T-45 project as an Engineering Intern back in the late 1980’s. Good the birds are still flying, but — perhaps a needed overhaul of the oxygen systems has been overlooked sometime in these past 30 years?
Here is the link and article on Freerepublic (which has a link to the Hannity.com article):
Obama enjoyed playing golf, and making a mess of our country. Trump is trying to fix his messes...
Yup. And critical systems are LEAST intended to go so long without thorough attention.
This is a big puff ... if the ride ain’t ready .. fails pre-flight you get to try again when it is.
JMHO
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