{"id":157904,"date":"2024-06-17T15:32:51","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T19:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=157904"},"modified":"2024-06-17T15:32:51","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T19:32:51","slug":"vice-admiral-chebi-i-bet-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=157904","title":{"rendered":"Vice Admiral Chebi, “I Bet Your Life.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nV-22 Osprey<\/em><\/p>\n

One of the smarter things NAVAIR did was to implement an Aviation Safety Management System. Part of the new practice was a concept called the “No Vote” where anyone involved in a flight evolution who perceived a safety concern should speak up immediately without fear of retribution. The evolution is then paused and the issue addressed and either resolved or mitigated to acceptable levels. This of course applies for test and training flights where Operational Necessity* does not rear its ugly head.<\/p>\n

Military officials: ‘Widowmaker’ Osprey will fly with a faulty clutch<\/h3>\n

At a hearing Wednesday, lawmakers said one more fatality under these conditions and the program is ‘done.’<\/em>
\nNICK CLEVELAND-STOUT<\/strong><\/p>\n

During a House subcommittee hearing on June 12, Vice Admiral Carl Chebi told Congress that the V-22 Osprey will continue to fly on a faulty clutch through mid-2025.<\/p>\n

But while it will fly at a lower capacity of only 30 minutes at a time, this change would not have prevented a crash that killed three U.S. Marines last year.<\/p>\n

In the last two years alone, 20 service members have died in Osprey crashes. Finally, after a total of 64 fatalities and 93 injuries, Congress has launched an investigation into the Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey \u2014 known as the \u201cwidowmaker.\u201d On June 12, the House Oversight National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs Subcommittee called on Chebi, adviser to the secretary of defense Peter Belk, and Program Executive Officer for Air Anti-Submarine Warfare and Special Missions Programs Gary Kurtz, to address the recent uptick in crashes.<\/p>\n

One of the key questions for Congress was on the Osprey\u2019s aging clutch. As defense analyst Julia Gledhill explained in these pages last year, the Osprey\u2019s clutch will occasionally slip and disengage with one of the aircraft\u2019s proprotors and can cause the helicopter to lurch and nosedive, in what is known as a hard clutch event.<\/p>\n

\u201cOver time, the clutch wears out and has a higher susceptibility to slipping which will cause a hard clutch event,\u201d acknowledged Chebi during the hearing. \u201cIn 2022 we had a sharp increase in the number of hard clutches.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kurtz told the subcommittee on Wednesday that a rework on the clutch would be done \u201csomewhere between mid-period of 2025 and the third quarter of that fiscal year.\u201d The Department of Defense also removed clutches that have over 800 hours but will continue to use the faulty clutch until then, putting more service members at risk.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Responsible Statecraft<\/a><\/p>\n

Not too long-ago Navy grounded its T-45 Goshawk training jets after instructor pilots were refusing to fly the plane because of a series of problems with the pilot oxygen system.<\/p>\n

Dozens of instructor pilots refused to fly the jet because of a spike in the occurrence of dangerous physical symptoms triggered by a lack of, or contaminants in the oxygen system.<\/p>\n

“We take the concerns of our aircrew seriously and have directed a two-day safety pause for the T-45 community to allow time for Naval Aviation leadership to engage with the pilots, hear their concerns and discuss the risk mitigations as well as the efforts that are ongoing to correct this issue,” said a Naval Air Forces spox in an email.<\/p>\n

Unlike Admiral Chebi’s ‘Fuck it, fly it’ call. What would I do if I were an Osprey crewman? Hmmmm..<\/p>\n

Thanks for the head’s up, Mick.<\/p>\n

*Operational Necessity- The mission is deemed worth the potential loss of the aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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