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Posted: 3/28/2024 8:29:44 PM EDT
https://www.twz.com/air/four-army-ah-64-apaches-have-now-crashed-in-just-two-months |
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Sucks, lost a good friend to a training accident years ago, killed himself and his copilot under NVG's.
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Quoted: Sucks, lost a good friend to a training accident years ago, killed himself and his copilot under NVG's. View Quote When I left active duty, I looked at reserve Army aviation since the Marines brought that J model on quick and I was getting mothballed. At the time, the Army was bending a lot of metal (late 90's)... I went to two squadrons. I didn't want to go to war with what I saw there. |
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Beastie Boys - Sabotage |
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Quoted: When I left active duty, I looked at reserve Army aviation since the Marines brought that J model on quick and I was getting mothballed. At the time, the Army was bending a lot of metal (late 90's)... I went to two squadrons. I didn't want to go to war with what I saw there. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Sucks, lost a good friend to a training accident years ago, killed himself and his copilot under NVG's. When I left active duty, I looked at reserve Army aviation since the Marines brought that J model on quick and I was getting mothballed. At the time, the Army was bending a lot of metal (late 90's)... I went to two squadrons. I didn't want to go to war with what I saw there. In my opinion you made a good call. I ETS'd in 1995 and thought I would try the Illinois Army Reserves and then the National Guard. They were a fucking soup sandwich, nobody gave a shit, uniforms looked like shit. |
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Quoted: In my opinion you made a good call. I ETS'd in 1995 and thought I would try the Illinois Army Reserves and then the National Guard. They were a fucking soup sandwich, nobody gave a shit, uniforms looked like shit. View Quote My buddy says the same about his NG Shit-hook maintenance group. |
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Army aviation needs to bring in some USAF people to straighten up their training programs.
The USAF is like a bible cult level focus on the details Navy is middle of the road Army Aviation is as disorganized as dogs*it I fly with all 3 and you can tell who is who in under a minute. |
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Quoted: My buddy says the same about his NG Shit-hook maintenance group. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: In my opinion you made a good call. I ETS'd in 1995 and thought I would try the Illinois Army Reserves and then the National Guard. They were a fucking soup sandwich, nobody gave a shit, uniforms looked like shit. My buddy says the same about his NG Shit-hook maintenance group. Its sad, people were there for the college money. |
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The article doesn't offer much explanation except that there have been problems in the past with the generators putting smoke into the cockpit and that the one Apache that crashed had an Air Force pilot flying it.
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Quoted: When I left active duty, I looked at reserve Army aviation since the Marines brought that J model on quick and I was getting mothballed. At the time, the Army was bending a lot of metal (late 90's)... I went to two squadrons. I didn't want to go to war with what I saw there. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Sucks, lost a good friend to a training accident years ago, killed himself and his copilot under NVG's. When I left active duty, I looked at reserve Army aviation since the Marines brought that J model on quick and I was getting mothballed. At the time, the Army was bending a lot of metal (late 90's)... I went to two squadrons. I didn't want to go to war with what I saw there. But they did, for 20 years. Only time I went to sea was on a National Guard 60 in the Persian Gulf. |
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Quoted: Is there any reason you can think of that's causing it? Apaches are awesome and saved my bacon more than once. View Quote Blackhawk guy, so I’m sure Apache guys are gonna have better insight. The Apache mishap rate is much higher than other Army airframes. Some of it is training, some of it is design, some of it’s the complexity of the systems that need to be managed. Some of it is training with regards to design characteristics. Some of it is the change from the primary training helicopter from the TH-67 to the LUH. There have been a lot of class A mishaps across the board this year in Army Aviation. It’s not a coincidence Army Aviation as a whole went from being very seasoned to very inexperienced in a very short amount of time recently. |
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Quoted: Blackhawk guy, so I’m sure Apache guys are gonna have better insight. The Apache mishap rate is much higher than other Army airframes. Some of it is training, some of it is design, some of it’s the complexity of the systems that need to be managed. Some of it is training with regards to design characteristics. Some of it is the change from the primary training helicopter from the TH-67 to the LUH. There have been a lot of class A mishaps across the board this year in Army Aviation. It’s not a coincidence Army Aviation as a whole went from being very seasoned to very inexperienced in a very short amount of time. View Quote That sucks. |
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Quoted: When I left active duty, I looked at reserve Army aviation since the Marines brought that J model on quick and I was getting mothballed. At the time, the Army was bending a lot of metal (late 90's)... I went to two squadrons. I didn't want to go to war with what I saw there. View Quote Well luckily that was 30 years ago and has nothing to do with anything |
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Quoted: Is there any reason you can think of that's causing it? Apaches are awesome and saved my bacon more than once. View Quote I can only speculate, and the details are extremely scarce, but my guess is some loss of tail rotor effectiveness, which seems to be the new thing as of late. Could’ve been just a rash of bad luck or poor crew mix. Who knows. |
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Quoted: When I left active duty, I looked at reserve Army aviation since the Marines brought that J model on quick and I was getting mothballed. At the time, the Army was bending a lot of metal (late 90's)... I went to two squadrons. I didn't want to go to war with what I saw there. View Quote From the guy that just came to my unit from the Marines, it sounds like things are quite the opposite from where things were 30 years ago. Like anything things are very unit dependent. Army Aviation as a whole is struggling with the experience gap right now, but so is every branch. |
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Quoted: I can only speculate, and the details are extremely scarce, but my guess is some loss of tail rotor effectiveness, which seems to be the new thing as of late. Could’ve been just a rash of bad luck or poor crew mix. Who knows. View Quote That's fair. My chopper mechanic friend has explained to me how crazy everything is routed in the powertrains to the rotors on the rotary stuff he works on so I could see that. |
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Quoted: We just lost one with two very experienced pilots 3 weeks ago............................. https://i.imgur.com/T4Q7GgL.png View Quote That's terrible. I hope they fix whatever the hell is going on with them. |
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Quoted: We just lost one with two very experienced pilots 3 weeks ago............................. https://i.imgur.com/T4Q7GgL.png https://i.imgur.com/JQFT0Y3.png View Quote |
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Quoted: I can only speculate, and the details are extremely scarce, but my guess is some loss of tail rotor effectiveness, which seems to be the new thing as of late. Could’ve been just a rash of bad luck or poor crew mix. Who knows. View Quote Without going into too many details for obvious reasons. Mississippi AH64 Class A crash with 2 fatalities - Pilot error. Blatant fucking pilot error bordering on intentionally suicidal considering the pilots absolutely fucking knew better. The LUH crash down on the border I've got no clue. JBLM AH64 Class A with minor injuries - Tail rotor issue, possibly LTE, possibly they hit a tree with the tail rotor. investigation still underway. Carson AH64 Class A with minor injuries - LTE suspected. Aircraft was in 3 pieces. LTE is an issue especially in the E model. They gave us a bigger main rotor but kept the tail rotor the same size. I have no clue why anybody couldn't see this coming. |
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Quoted: We just lost one with two very experienced pilots 3 weeks ago............................. https://i.imgur.com/T4Q7GgL.png https://i.imgur.com/JQFT0Y3.png View Quote We were grounded for a week after that. Still have no idea what happened. I’m really not sure what the fix is, as my perspective is probably a bit different from active duty, but I know the Army is doing a piss poor job of trying to retain experience, instead opting to keep the new pilots longer. We’re also transitioning from COIN to LSCO tactics and techniques, the later being more inherently dangerous. |
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Quoted: Without going into too many details for obvious reasons. Alabama AH64 Class A crash with 2 fatalities - Pilot error. Blatant fucking pilot error bordering on intentionally suicidal considering the pilots absolutely fucking knew better. The LUH crash down on the border I've got no clue. JBLM AH64 Class A with minor injuries - Tail rotor issue, possibly LTE, possibly they hit a tree with the tail rotor. investigation still underway. Carson AH64 Class A with minor injuries - LTE suspected. Aircraft was in 3 pieces. LTE is an issue especially in the E model. They gave us a bigger main rotor but kept the tail rotor the same size. I have no clue why anybody couldn't see this coming. View Quote I’ve heard the 72 was LTE as well. I was talking about these crashes this morning in Flt ops, I’d be surprised somewhat if we’re not grounded for a minute with all this LTE shit going on, though I think we don’t have an issue with it in SC. Being we’re much closer to sea level, rarely do we ever have high winds and flyable weather, and we generally have 30ish% power margin when we first take off. I may mitigate shit like terrain flight by flying it towards the end of the flight now for the extra envelope of power. |
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I've been out and was never Air Crew but I'll be damned I thought the Apache and the Hawk were stout Airframes able to withstand a hard landing/crash? Damn shame some of our best in what we consider the best equipment being lost. No word as to why yet around here either but 7 of them flew into Starkville three days ago I assume headed to Jackson or some backwoods airfield for inspection/maintenance??
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Quoted: I’ve heard the 72 was LTE as well. I was talking about these crashes this morning in Flt ops, I’d be surprised somewhat if we’re not grounded for a minute with all this LTE shit going on, though I think we don’t have an issue with it in SC. Being we’re much closer to sea level, rarely do we ever have high winds and flyable weather, and we generally have 30ish% power margin when we first take off. I may mitigate shit like terrain flight by flying it towards the end of the flight now for the extra envelope of power. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Without going into too many details for obvious reasons. Alabama AH64 Class A crash with 2 fatalities - Pilot error. Blatant fucking pilot error bordering on intentionally suicidal considering the pilots absolutely fucking knew better. The LUH crash down on the border I've got no clue. JBLM AH64 Class A with minor injuries - Tail rotor issue, possibly LTE, possibly they hit a tree with the tail rotor. investigation still underway. Carson AH64 Class A with minor injuries - LTE suspected. Aircraft was in 3 pieces. LTE is an issue especially in the E model. They gave us a bigger main rotor but kept the tail rotor the same size. I have no clue why anybody couldn't see this coming. I’ve heard the 72 was LTE as well. I was talking about these crashes this morning in Flt ops, I’d be surprised somewhat if we’re not grounded for a minute with all this LTE shit going on, though I think we don’t have an issue with it in SC. Being we’re much closer to sea level, rarely do we ever have high winds and flyable weather, and we generally have 30ish% power margin when we first take off. I may mitigate shit like terrain flight by flying it towards the end of the flight now for the extra envelope of power. Explain LTE? |
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Quoted: Without going into too many details for obvious reasons. Mississippi AH64 Class A crash with 2 fatalities - Pilot error. Blatant fucking pilot error bordering on intentionally suicidal considering the pilots absolutely fucking knew better. The LUH crash down on the border I've got no clue. JBLM AH64 Class A with minor injuries - Tail rotor issue, possibly LTE, possibly they hit a tree with the tail rotor. investigation still underway. Carson AH64 Class A with minor injuries - LTE suspected. Aircraft was in 3 pieces. LTE is an issue especially in the E model. They gave us a bigger main rotor but kept the tail rotor the same size. I have no clue why anybody couldn't see this coming. View Quote Especially with the move from training in TH67’s where LTE got hammered into our heads whether we liked it or not and the LUH where I get new pilots who have never even heard of LTE. That’s what I suspected with Mississippi. Fucking terrible. |
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Quoted: I’ve heard the 72 was LTE as well. I was talking about these crashes this morning in Flt ops, I’d be surprised somewhat if we’re not grounded for a minute with all this LTE shit going on, though I think we don’t have an issue with it in SC being much closer to sea level, rarely do we ever have high winds and flyable weather, and we generally have 30ish% power margin when we first take off. I may mitigate shit like terrain flight towards the end of the flight now for the extra envelope of power. View Quote Don't get complacent about it just because you're at sea level. Get the right crosswind and it'll occur. While I was attending IPC I had to take the controls from the SP I was riding with that day because we got LTE on short final going into Hanchey. Flying in Kansas (40kt+ winds are fairly common here) does have its occassional benefits. |
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Those of you aviation guys explain LTE?? Dafuq is it and why did it get implemented?
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Quoted: Especially with the move from training in TH67’s where LTE got hammered into our heads whether we liked it or not and the LUH where I get new pilots who have never even heard of LTE. That’s what I suspected with Mississippi. Fucking terrible. View Quote Don't get me started on LUH vs TH67's. You can probably guess how long that "old man yells at clouds" rant will be. |
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Quoted: In my opinion you made a good call. I ETS'd in 1995 and thought I would try the Illinois Army Reserves and then the National Guard. They were a fucking soup sandwich, nobody gave a shit, uniforms looked like shit. View Quote @cda97 Southern IL by any chance? Asking because my brother was in a reserve unit at SAFB around that timeframe. The powers that's be gave their helos to some other unit and closed down the unit. I don't remember how long the gap was, but he eventually transfered to an NG unit |
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Quoted: Those of you aviation guys explain LTE?? Dafuq is it and why did it get implemented? View Quote LTE is loss of tailrotor effectiveness. In stupid simple terms, if you get the right winds going through your tailrotor the wrong way it'll counteract the anti-torque effect from the tailrotor. Basically the helicopter starts to go into a damn near uncontrollable spin that if you don't catch it quick will generally result in a crash. |
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Quoted: LTE is loss of tailrotor effectiveness. In stupid simple terms, if you get the right winds going through your tailrotor the wrong way it'll counteract the anti-torque effect from the tailrotor. Basically the helicopter starts to go into a damn near uncontrollable spin that if you don't catch it quick will generally result in a crash. View Quote Damn!! |
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Quoted: Don't get complacent about it just because you're at sea level. Get the right crosswind and it'll occur. While I was attending IPC I had to take the controls from the SP I was riding with that day because we got LTE on short final going into Hanchey. Flying in Kansas (40kt+ winds are fairly common here) does have its occassional benefits. View Quote It’s definitely in my head lately, but the only time I’ve run out of pedal was some flight control issue a few months out of progression in the D-model. |
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Quoted: @cda97 Southern IL by any chance? Asking because my brother was in a reserve unit at SAFB around that timeframe. The powers that's be gave their helos to some other unit and closed down the unit. I don't remember how long the gap was, but he eventually transfered to an NG unit View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: In my opinion you made a good call. I ETS'd in 1995 and thought I would try the Illinois Army Reserves and then the National Guard. They were a fucking soup sandwich, nobody gave a shit, uniforms looked like shit. @cda97 Southern IL by any chance? Asking because my brother was in a reserve unit at SAFB around that timeframe. The powers that's be gave their helos to some other unit and closed down the unit. I don't remember how long the gap was, but he eventually transfered to an NG unit Nope, Reserve unit was out of Sugar Grove west of Chicago, the NG unit was at Midway airport but their sister unit was in central/mid Illinois. |
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At one point there were problems with the main rotor strap pack laminations. Interior ones would fail unseen until the crash investigation.
However it would appear the NG has broader problems. |
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Quoted: At one point there were problems with the main rotor strap pack laminations. Interior ones would fail unseen until the crash investigation. However it would appear the NG has broader problems. View Quote The NG is just being abundantly cautious. Theres nothing different between guard and active Echo models Apaches. |
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Quoted: The NG is just being abundantly cautious. Theres nothing different between guard and active Echo models Apaches. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: At one point there were problems with the main rotor strap pack laminations. Interior ones would fail unseen until the crash investigation. However it would appear the NG has broader problems. The NG is just being abundantly cautious. Theres nothing different between guard and active Echo models Apaches. Well one thing is different; the NG models are grounded, and that's really the only thing we know for certain. |
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Quoted: I totally missed that. /media/mediaFiles/sharedAlbum/planet-of-the-apes-charlton-heston-992.gif View Quote My first Warrant was a Legend of a CW5 in Korea who single-handedly ruined a company's worth of Joe's for the rest of the Army. There's nothing like watching a BDE CDR wilt when a Jedi tells him his Soldiers don't have time for stupid shit. |
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When Hurricane Fran was bearing down on Ft Bragg in 1996 we evacuated everything that could fly to Ft Campbell. We had Apaches in fields all over the place.
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Quoted: Well one thing is different; the NG models are grounded, and that's really the only thing we know for certain. View Quote As of right now, we’re not. I read through the article, it only mentions the Guard grounding 64s back in February, which lasted about a week for us. Still ops normal as of now. |
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Quoted: We just lost one with two very experienced pilots 3 weeks ago............................. https://i.imgur.com/T4Q7GgL.png https://i.imgur.com/JQFT0Y3.png View Quote Zemek was a shooter. He may have been on here. |
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