Tweet phaseout?

[SteelCity]

Does anyone know if all SUPT bases have switched over to the T-6 yet?

If not, is it supposed to happen before FY05 training slots begin?

Thanks for the help!

 

[talondriver]

Currently...Moody and Randolph are full up with the T-6. Laughlin is going through the transition now. Vance is next (I think) because Columbus is suppose to be the last. I no nothing about Sheppard's place in the flow.

 

[Spur]

Sheppard will transition after Columbus. According to one of the SQ CCs, Vance will start training IPs in the spring of '04. I'm not sure how long the transition period (simultaneous T-37/T-6 ops) is.

 

[Tweetdrvr]

Transition takes almost 2 years per base

Laughlin started it's first class of T-6 Prop-heads in March 03 and will graduate it's last T-37 student from PhaseII in January/February 05 if the factory can deliver them fast enough and if nothing else has to get fixed on the ones that have already been delivered.

 

[Nalo Boy]

Can you go to Randolph for UPT? or is that just PIT

 

[SteelCity]

Tweetdrvr,

Are the T-6's turning out to be a "high maintenance" airplane with a lot of bugs to be worked out?

It sounds like buying a new model of car in its first year of production, with many quirks still needing to be ironed out.

Thanks!

 

[Tweetdrvr]

I am too new in the aircraft to comment. Right now it is all nice and shiney and not pukey and dusty like the T-37. You'll have to get some feedback from some of the guys at Moody who have lived with it for a while.

Nalo Boy,

RND stopped being a UPT base circa 1970ish.

 

[TheRealStory]

The T-6 is far, far, far...the way to go. I fly it in the reserves and have had only a hand full of right ups(mostly radio stuff, i.e. xc talk problems between the front and back).

It has been online for five years now and has had two engine failures, and a couple of gear problems but other than that I cannot think of any other major problems. I think it has a good safety record and the only crash was a no brainer PE.

The T-37 is a good bird but just plane old. Old avionics, old ejection seat, old airframe, old engines(it has two of em what a crazy concept for a primary trainer. I never would want a stud out in the area solo and lose a his one and only engine. Oh wait the T-6 only has one eng......)

But seriously the T-6 is a great aircraft that will do just about anything and the AD IPs work really hard with the studs(harder than I would) to get them through. The plane will not last as long as the 37, but it is not intended too.

If you have the choice don't let anybody talk you into the old be one of the last to fly the tweet guys. You will regreat it in hindsight.

 

[Steeler Fan]

T-37 vs T-6

The only advantage to the Tweet is that there is alot of gouge out there...How is the ANG/AFRES/ROTC/OTS/USAFA collection of T-6 gouge going???

Hey STEELCITY, I'm assuming 171st (and that the Steelers are driving you crazy as well...Hopefully Alan Faneca will be as good at Tackle as he was at Guard)

 

[rainman_02]

The T-6 is far, far, far...the way to go.

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If you have the choice don't let anybody talk you into the old be one of the last to fly the tweet guys. You will regreat it in hindsight.

I'm glad I flew the Tweet. Sure, it smells, takes 12+ seconds from IDLE to MIL and has old avionics, but I'll never get to fly it again. The T-6, on the other hand...I will most likely have a chance to fly...since most everyone spends at least one tour instructing at UPT or their school-house and I want to go back as an IP at UPT.

 

[TheRealStory]

Like I said don't let somebody talk you into "being one of the last to fly the tweet"

I have flown both and there is no comparison.

Hands down an easy choice.

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