19-09-2014, 20:22
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כתבה נוספת על האתגרים בתחזוקת צי מטוסי הקרב המתיישן של חהא"א
בהתיישנות צי מטוסי הקרב האמריקנית דנו כבר באחד מאשכולות ה F-35 הראשונים מדובר בהחלטה מודעת של חהא"א להקריב את הציים הקיימים לטובת שימור תוכניות ה F-22 ובעיקר ה F-35, לצד אירועים בלתי נצפים כהקפאת התקציב.
Strike Eagle Pressure
http://www.airforcemag.com/Magazine...e-Pressure.aspx
Lt. Col. Dylan Wells, Koscheski’s deputy, described the challenging conditions facing the wing’s F-15E maintainers. He said the training units want to have 12 Strike Eagles available to perform a full day’s worth of flying operations. As of May, five of the smaller squadron’s 20 jet aircraft were at the depot. That meant maintainers could only work on three of the remaining 15 aircraft for the squadron to stay on track with its training curriculum.
“What they do at [programmed depot maintenance] is amazing. It’s obviously a must-pay bill,” Wells said. “We’re very thankful that process is in place, but it does make it hard, especially for our maintenance brethren, to keep a stream of those jets available.”
The backlog will stay in place for about a year, though, as Warner Robins deals with sequestration and overhauls its maintenance and management procedures to perform better. Doug Keene, a longtime Warner Robins employee and now the special assistant to the complex’s commander, said last year’s budget cuts, civilian furloughs, and a government shutdown all hurt the depot’s ability to deliver aircraft on time. But he insisted the depots take some responsibility for not being as efficient as they should have been.
Keene said his complex has made a number of changes since January that are already improving maintenance flow times and quality. However, the process of implementing those changes, coupled with the aircraft backlog, will take nine to12 months to work through.
“If you go look right now, we are producing F-15s at a 60 percent increase in throughput than where we were just five months ago,” Keene said in June. “We are producing airplanes at much higher quality than we were producing. When F-15s go out to functional test, they usually have to fly two, three, four times” to ensure the repairs all work.
“We’re now seeing more and more airplanes start to release [back to their squadrons] the first flight. We’re seeing airplanes move through there in a much quicker time because they are arriving at functional test with much higher quality.”
He said it will take “months to recover” from the buildup of jet aircraft, “but I’ll tell you, our F-15 line is already producing at a rate” such that if there were no backlog, “we would already be producing airplanes really about on time. Our problem is we have to produce somewhat faster” to work off the “additional airplanes that are here.”
Col. Darrell C. Steele, the maintenance group commander at the 4th FW, is feeling the strain. Instead of having three or four aircraft at Warner Robins at a time, the wing had 10 of its aircraft at the depot as of July 9 and was about to send another, he said. That’s created more work for the 2,200 or so maintainers under his command, all to keep a smaller number of F-15Es flying. One of the wing’s training squadrons has been particularly hard-hit by the availability crunch. |
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