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[towers at mre.com]

Well....think about this.

The gear today is SO sophisticated that precision operational condition is
a must.  Performing those types of repairs and cal. services in the field
will be tricky at best even with the right service gear.  For consistency,
sending "defective" equipment back to a depot equipped the right jigs and
cal standards makes more sense not only from a consistent performance stand
point, but confidence by those who put their lives in that equipment's
"hands".  I for one will not get into an aircraft if I have ANY doubt as to
it's airworthiness.

Keep in mind, the depot could be operated by the military, a contractor, or
a joint venture between both due to security issues.

MM

On Fri, 5 Sep 2008 16:17:19 -0700, "Ronald J. Dot'o Sr."
<ron.doto at comcast.net> wrote:
> I used to work with an AF Reservist avionics tech back in '96 who told
> me that all that the techs do these days is change out black boxes and
> send them in to a central repair facility.  So much for real
> technicians!    A stockboy at the supermarket could do that!
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> When I joined the AF in1960 they sent me to ECM maintenance school
> which took us from DC through microwave in theory and then hands on
> training on the sets we'd be working on in the field.
> 
> I guess it's cheaper than training the troops and supplying test eqt.
> at each base, but still...
> 
> Ron D
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> From: "Lotus Engineering" <loteng at lvradio.com>
>   He's had to go out himself with all 8 stripes, to fix some things
> that I used to fix in the AF 40 years ago when I only had three
> stripes or less.
> 
> Bill Croghan CPBE WBØKSW
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