Originally Posted by
Turbine D
glad rag,
A place to start would be here:
http://www.public.navy.mil/surflant/...partments.aspx
Prior to the very first F-35B flight tests aboard the Wasp, training was accomplished ashore to familiarize the appropriate Wasp's crew members with the F-35B aircraft as I recall.
If the crew changed composition between the then and the May IOC, I would assume the Navy had most of the responsibility to train any newcomers, but I am really guessing.
TD
TD thanks for that link.
IMO the deployment [Wasp] report firmly points towards a poorly conceived and planned exercise/deployment where the term "ad hoc" was the primary motivator......
PS one thing of note from Wasp report was that main electrical power cannot be applied to the aircraft [in it's current form, no pun intended] when on the flight deck as it needs a "cooling cart" to do so.
I wonder if this is due to the inability to carry out an avionics isolation procedure as there is no electrical isolation equipment fitted [removed due to weight cuts] OR it's truly a
design?????
Do our new UK carriers have the ability to provide this cooling facility built in? And if not WHY NOT??
I will assume that these deficiencies will be addressed on future build standards, no doubt with further detrimental effect to the F-35b's waistline...
