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Old 21st Nov 2014, 01:25
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OK, I'll bite!

Just over 2500 hrs on the F3. From pre Z-List, (whatever they called prior to Z-list...apart from concrete)?? to Stage 2 fully spammed.

I'm in with Courtney and LJ, the set at the start was awful. In the end it was the best you could ever get from a HPRF RADAR that lacked MPRF. It's failure rate was not great. but also not that bad! On firing up the jet you could see from the PWAZ and A-Scope if you had a dud.

I seem to remember that once they realized that some of the LRUs (7+9) and (2+ something), needed to be matched and tuned, everything got a lot better.

47 Missions sausage side, no RADAR aborts...I did get hit by lightning on the way home once...that shut the whole jet down, bar the FBW.


Wasn't the F15A radar an utter disaster when it first came to the front-line?

Courtney,

On the F-15, how many times were you lead nosed?
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