Recent content by Baz

It absolutely does matter, for three reasons: The ethical one: it is their money. They should have a say in the way it’s spent. The pragmatic one: the whole discussion is on how we rebuild the surface fleet, and by extension the RCN, and indeed the CF has a whole, and the timelines involved...

With all of this, both the ships and the people to man them, the biggest problem is institutional momentum. A person whose opinion I trust once said to me that the MH community won’t change unless we fail. That is a true statement everywhere, but now large elements of the CF, in my opinion...

In my experience, military electronics design and test, and especially software design, implementation, integration, and verification do not follow modern practice. The production of software artifacts, as demanded by certification processes, does not produce more robust or reliable software...

My BSc was CompSci as well. I was an ACSO, but I used it more than most CELEs or AEREs I know. I was a bit of a special case though…

OK, but there should be some type of "top up training" between being aircrew and the ORO course, possibly as a selection course. As they are not NWOs, it would serve to fill in the gaps between being qualified MHCCs and basic NWO knowledge. You wouldn't want to do it by putting them on the NWO...

True, but the as described it could be made to fit into the current trade structure. As well, there is no requirement for everyone to be a BWK, only those who wish to get an ORO qual.

In general I agree with you. However, the devil is in the details, and there are a few important ones. The main thing that comes to mind is that Operational Airworthiness is important, and currently done by the RCAF. Which means they have all the corporate knowledge. I’m sure if we recreated...

I can show you staff work and reports from the 60s where the RCN developed the concepts to support the purchase and employment of the Sea King. I can also show you the work that was done by the RCAF because they thought (sort of) that rotary wing ASW should belong to them. That doesn’t exist...

The ISS contract was insisted upon by the GOC; it’s not the only problem but it certainly isn’t helping. The bigger problem was asking for the “best” without support (or funding) for it. Over and above the basics of unfunded spares, where does the support for tactics and training development...

As an aside, 10 years ago the PM MHP was in my lab. He wasn't really interested in what we were doing; he was trying to sell the Wing they were making the right decisions. He said to me "by staying with Cyclone and not cancelling and buying Romeos we keep control of our aircraft." Turns out his...

Which leads me straight to the crewing question, informed by Battle Management, and influences where we go from here: what the nav done historically on the Sea King was not battle management, it was plot compilation (and would have also included link management, if we had link). That is not an...

I had the welcome opportunity to talk with 3 of the pillars of all things MH at the 35th for the Persian Excursion today, and my thoughts about how we got where we are firming up. None of them disagreed with me (although they don't totally agree...). There is a need to publish it (ie in a proper...

It's the 35th Anniversary of the end of the First Persian Gulf War tomorrow. Shearwater Aviation Museum has configured the Interactive Display for the Op Friction mods: This is screenshots of the four monitors running stitched together. You can't really see it, but there are 130 ships...

I don’t think we did anything other than flight gear. When hoisting you have a face shield on… we used to use a suppression cup I think we got from the army. Left him in the back, move forward, short transit back to mom. But it was a long time ago… 30 years. sigh

We picked up a crew member with mono off Yugoslavia; they wanted him off quick. We were told exactly when and where, and they were very prompt and accurate.