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This is totally amazing. It will be interesting to see how it works.

Depots to do more frequent PDMs under a new name HVM. Wow...

http://www.afmc.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123160220

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The fuel savings alone will be huge! Every 18 months? The C-5's will never leave. As much crap we had to do to the C-5's with the current schedule I can see them thinking every 18 months would be a good idea. Trouble is when the heads of the depot world get ahold of the airlines system they will HAVE to have it there way and it will turn into the typical cluster f#$k that Robins is. I can't speak for the other 2 depots, never worked there. So glad to be out of there.

I spent three looooong years at Kelly Field and was there when the BRAC hammer fell. What went on there was nothing short of criminal. Closing SA-ALC was the BEST thing our govt ever did...

I heard a few stories about how things were done at Kelly. Some of our guys went there prior to BRAC to get some depot training for the C-5 before we were blessed with 'em. Criminal would be a good way to put it. The folks that we got from Kelly were a pretty piss poor excuse for maintainers also. Thats OK though, they've all been promoted and are running the C-5 depot now. Doh

I'm not maintenance (Intel actually) but here are my depot stories 1.) lose a 34th Viper because the engine depot didn't put all the bearing pieces back in when assembling an engine. This was one of 4 or 5 occurrences but the others caught during test runs but weren't reported until after the accident. 2.) At Hill when a Moody bird crashed on the acceptance flight because the depot signed off recalibrating the AOA probe and never did it. Viper thinks it's 50 degrees nose high five feet off the ground. Fortunately the pilot survived. Depot response--processes will be tightened. 3.) (these show problems are wider spread than just the fighter world) AFSOC MC-130s go into depot and come out worse than when they went in. Our maintenance sometimes spent weeks fixing them when they got home. Example--control cables wire tied together during maintenance and left on. "Passed" acceptance flight and somehow made it across the ocean. 4.) Latest accident report of near disaster for JSTARs in OIF. Fuel vent plug left in during depot maintenance. Explosion almost blew the wing off. Plug serial number proves it came from the depot which denies leaving it in. Harsh examples and probably unfair to many hard working, dedicated folks but some people obviously don't care that human beings strap themselves to the results of their work...

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Major changes in depot maintenance-