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Fish Chaar
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No image-recording devices allow...

...that is , when you're in a military facility.

So although i can't show y'all what goes on exactly...i've found the video below instead. 

Everything you're about to see, i've done routinely between  June 1995- September 2001, and much much more:

securing stress panels, 

refuelling, 

droptank fitment,

visual inpsections through quick-release panels,

coupling up the air supply unit for engine startup or ground runs,

connecting external power for electrical systems check,

checking flight instruments inside the cockpit,

When the pilot came to take his aircraft, i'd strap him in and get the jet started up, making sure that;

the landing gear inboard doors close properly during engine wind up,

the auxillary intake doors open which indicates generators are online,

the jet doesn't taxi out dragging the air hose with it :P,

all the external lightings are working ( that's the beacon light on the vertical stabilizer)

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB4URDIitfY All this while communciating with the pilot thru silly looking hand signals.

And just before it taxi out of the shelter, we do a brakes test....NOT! It's actually to ensure that the stability augmentation system is working properly. You'd have to know where to look....but i'm not telling :P

After completing it's sortie, the jet makes it's landing and deploys a dragchute so as not to overheat the brakes.

Once the engines have shut down, the engine oil levels must be checked within 15min and a new dragchute fitted. You'd notice the packer's 'pecker' getting a warm reception from the twin exhausts. After which, he subjects his face to same ordeal.

Hope this gives you abit of insight. If you have any questions...do feel free to contact the airforce's recruitment unit :P

almost 17 years ago 0 likes  16 comments  0 shares
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Mindy> you want rsaf to be overrun by ah bengs isit? :P Jeanne> sure u can...just no 'sensitive' questions ;) Peer > yup, it does get monotonous after a while, but that's good news chief...no war mah :) Patrick> u make it sound like i died and came back again =))
almost 17 years ago
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i meant questions sensitive to national security...so whether in private or out in the open, i'm not supposed to answer. during taxiing, the suction isn't too great. a child might get sucked in but not an adult...the force is actually enough to pull you towards the air intakes but not enough to suck you in completely cos the intakes are relatively small compared to a upright human being.
almost 17 years ago
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that's a very old video...seen it countless times already cos it's in some safely video. the engine caught fire cos some loose article the guy had on him got sucked into the engine itself while he couldn't go any further than the intake ven ( which is like some sort of a 'fence' infront of the 1st stage rotor blades)
almost 17 years ago
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jeanne> u'r not planning on looking down an air intake sometime soon ...r u? mindy> well of cos they do...that's why they collect 'protection' money :P
almost 17 years ago
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where got? i always man4 san1 pai1 one leh...
almost 17 years ago

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