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Originally Posted by VINMAN
I'll see what I can do! They have been real tough with base access since the Covid nonsense. I'm lucky I can even get on, even though our facility is on it.
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I should know that...Patuxent River just returned to a higher state of restriction. I can get on base since I am retired but where I can go is proscribed.
If we have to wait, I'll follow the rules - you can only tie the record in these cases
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Originally Posted by VINMAN
I'm amazed at the panel on the Mikes. All screens. slight difference from the R22 I took my lessons on !  |
No kidding - the Navy primary helo aircraft when I went through was a Bell Jet Ranger. The only glass in the cockpit was the windscreen.
I am a bit of a cockpit junkie. I did a lot of the early work in the Navy of glass cockpits and worked, when I was at Sikorsky, with the Army crew station working groups on the Comanche Helicopter. I spent hundreds of hours in the the Commanche simulator at the factory. I was a "geaobach" in Bridgeport and had the time!
The Sikorsky lead engineer on the project was one of the few real geniuses I have met in my life and I was a complete sponge.
I then helped managed the development of the Navy"s "Common Cockpit" for the H-60 series of Seahawks. So much effort goes into the "human factors" aspects of cockpits I think it would surprise folks. Common Cockpit:
