CH-124 Sea King Historical Thread

[Baz]

Did you keep the original ASN-123 log in code?

There's nothing classified in the simulation, so it doesn't matter what you enter... so no. Plus, my brain is too old; I don't remember it!

 

[SeaKingTacco]

Neither do I. But I will bet that if I sat in front of an ASN-123, closed my eyes and just let my hands move, they would punch in the correct code from muscle memory…

 

[Good2Golf]

Neither do I. But I will bet that if I sat in front of an ASN-123, closed my eyes and just let my hands move, they would punch in the correct code from muscle memory…

‘123456’?

 

[SeaKingTacco]

‘123456’?

Nope…

 

[dapaterson]

That's the combination for my luggage!

 

[Baz]

I was wondering what the ASN-150 (a leter version of the ASN-123 which was installed in the CH-124 from early 90's to early 2010's) looked like:

My inital sim posted here isn't driving the TacPlot (yet, I'm going to have it an option in the 123 sim).

I had the Aircraft Operating Instruction for the SH-60F which had it (the 60B used Lamps Mk-III instead), but there wasn't much detail. I got them for the HH-60J (US Coast Guard) and SH-2G Sea Sprite (USN and others). The SH-2G version has all the menus.

Although the basic functionality is the same as the 123, it has some interesting capabilities:

• can have more than one computer (in the 60F it is used for redundancy)
• each computer can drive two screens
• better user input (I have a video of how much simpler it is than the 123 menus, but can't post it here)
• the screens can also do "normal" video instead of the TACPLOT (the SH-2G uses that for FLIR, radar, and a UYS-503 sonobuoy processor, which is the same processor as on the CH-124B, the 60F for FLIR and Hellfire)

So, if we hadn't of cheaped out after the 1993 "zero helicopters" and got the 150 instead of the 123 (which was already approaching obsolesence), we could have had one screen in the front, and two each for the TACCO and SENSO. Keep the AQS-13 sonar but process it in an UYS-503, which gives you either buoys or dipping. Process the radar, add a basic autotracker, and some semblance of integration with the 150. Wouldn't need a dedicated FLIR display. Customize the software with better battle management tools for the TACCO. The 150 has a 1553 bus which would allow incremental moidernization of radios, etc.

Oh well, hindsight is 20/20...