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Duey currently the SCTF helo still has the TACCO station but the AESOp station has been removed. If given more time and money to give the pilots a proper TACNAV/FMS the Tacco station would be gone as well. Hopefully the M134 will replace the C6 on the cyclone. And as SKT has said the NVG issue...

AESOp081 when we used Bravo's for ASW you are correct it did have two NAVs (one tacco and one senso) however, the last senso course run was only for AESOPs. The Sea King community decided that passive acoustic were a sensor and thus fell under the domain of the AESOp trade. Unfortunately shortly...

BKells I will answer you question first with another question how many hours of maintenance does any other helicopter require? Everyone throws around the 30hrs without comparing it anything else?  That is my biggest pet peeve with people who bring up 30hrs maintenance/hour flying. The Sea King...

While SKT won't waste your time with speculation I will ;D What the Cyclone fleet will look like in the future is currently being debated/considered but as I see it comes down to three options. 1. Keep 28 Cyclones and use some in the SCTF role. ie role fit the mission kit 2. Purchase...

I don't see any problem with civie Master Students at RMC or even Queen and other student's taking undergrad courses at RMC. However, the undergrad RMC (CMR, RRMC)  degree has always been about more than just attending classes 5 days a week.

How many civies are at RMC? When I graduated ('00) there were no civie full time students and probably one or two talking courses in all four years. Are civie undergrads making up half of Varisity teams? I assume they live in town and just attend classes and then get RMC degrees? That just...

andpro, whenl I was at RMC (Grad '00) we had a few a students granted credits to start in second year, though you still had to do what used to be called recruit term, which I think is now called first year orientation or something like that. According to the RMC FAQ on the their website: "Does...

Fast Roping was done out of Canadian Sea Kings for Op Friction (ie Gulf War I). We no longer have the capability, although there has been talk of reviving it for last couple years. There was an attempt to bring it back for Op Apollo but basically the Navy said they didn't want the capability and...

I think I have said  this before but we are ordering the H-92 not the S-92. Kinda of semantics but seeing as there are many difference to the aircraft alone not including all the mission fit it is important to raise. However, ForeverF, may have some valid points though probably not based on his...

Yeah its funny to see the F-117 retired but they entered service in the early 80s. I think they operated somewhere around seven years before they were made public. (ie entered service around 1983 and made public either 1989 or 1990)

I believe the USCG two main helos are the HH-60 Jayhawk (blackhawk derivative) and the HH-65 Dolphin. I think they also have another helo used mainly for counter-drug. I am sure google has the answer.

Ok my bad on the whole YFR thing! ;D I thought it worked differently  :blotto:

Roger that Short Final. I thought it was higher than 20%. I also thought the Navy payed for more of Sea King YFR  but whatever the number the number is  I would imagine it would be similar to the Tac Hel community. Though someone did tell me once that the Army wanted to pay less and wanted a...

It is my understanding that one of the driving reasons for getting rid of the chinooks and the kiowas and hueys was that the army didn't like paying for three types of aircraft. Much like the Sea King and the Navy, the army pays for most of the YFR for Tac Hel. The army wanted to have a single...

The Cyclone will have  a similar but slightly different sensor suite  than the MH-60R, the newest version of the seahawk. I believe the ESM is the same model but all rest are similar type but different manufacterors. For examplre the Romeo has the ALFS sonar while the Cyclone will have the...

Just to elaborate what SKT said I believe the mods to the hangar will include the removal of the tail rotor work stand and a number of vents on the ceiling. I have also heard that a redesign of the LSO compartment is trying to be piggybacked onto the project to address a number of UCRs on...

I think that is exactly what Augusta-Westland is doing. From what I hear they already redesigned the rotor hub once  but that the new design ended up failing more often. Someone a lot smarter than me estimated that at a minimum it would  take another year to redesign, build, test and the new...

We haven't really put any money into the F-35 we basically paid $600 million to allow canadian companies to bid on sub-contracts. As for the F-18E/F it is almost an entirely new aircraft and one of the few next-gen actually in service. I wouldn't be surprised if we end seeing long delays in the...

Under our current government and CDS I don't think replacing the CF18 will be a  priority anytime soon. If we were to replace it I think the F15E would be a step backwards in many ways. While Korea is currently accepting newbuild F-15K's (F-15E derivative), the F15 is actually an older desing...

Obviously a little off topic but to continue what my cohort was saying. Generally the only cross country Sea Kings do are East-West rotations or airshows and in those cases the norm is to carry three techs two AVN and one AVS. Obviously it would be more efficient to have an FE on road trips...