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C-130J Audit Questions

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KBayDog

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I believe CNN as far as I can throw it, but I wandered across this article:

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/07/24/pentagon.planeaudit/index.html

Keeping in mind that this article focuses primarily on the USAF's problems with the -J, have any of you experienced similar limitations in the USMC's -J models?

Or, for that matter (since the title of the article gives the impression that many of our planes are "deficient"), have any of you experienced your various aircraft falling short of manufacturer's performance claims? (Of course, I would not include the performance drops from normal wear and tear and age.) If so, has the lack of advertised performance ever led to a point where mission accomplishment was in question?

(This may be a null thread, simply based on the age of our fleet, but it's worth a shot...)
 
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TANGO 1

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This year, i happened to be talking to one of the Infligt Mechs from a C-130 squadron that was deployed to Afghanistan and he was telling me that there was another Airforce C-130 squadron in Afghanistan that was having problems with their aricrafts, according to him the aircraft were techonologically a step ahead compared to the ones in his squadron, but then the AF guys had to put some aircraft component in the freezer overnight to be able to start the Aircrafts in the morning, according to him, the Aircrafts will complain about the temperature being HOT to fly. In fact he told me in some other MC squadron, they have all the older C-130s out on deployments while the J's are setting the hangar.
I mean, i don't know what to say, if the CNN report says they have to change propellers after being exposed to severe weather conditions, makes you wonder if those things were ever tested.
I don't think the Marine Corp has that much of the J models compared to the Airforce, and i will bet that they will most definitely will be experiencing the same problmes.
 
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TANGO 1 said:
the AF guys had to put some aircraft component in the freezer overnight to be able to start the Aircrafts in the morning, according to him, the Aircrafts will complain about the temperature being HOT to fly.
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I don't guess you know which component(s)? I'm asking from an avionics technician's standpoint.
 
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