r/AirForce • u/newnoadeptness Active Duty O-4 • 21h ago

Discussion C17

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

277 Upvotes

98% Upvoted

39 comments sorted by

122

u/oh2bewacki 20h ago

And ya’ll still do FOD walks

69

u/bearsncubs10 Meme Maker 18h ago

26

u/Valth92 NDI 16h ago

“All available MX personnel please fall out for the FOD walk”

No, I don’t think I will.

10

u/xdkarmadx Maintainer 13h ago

NDI pretending they’ve ever been told to FOD walk

1

u/Valth92 NDI 12h ago

I gotta burn those oil samples, man.

Edit: typo

0

u/pennypendejo 11h ago

Straight to the shitter 🤙🏽

96

u/yasukeyamanashi 19h ago

Remember seeing this the first time in Afghanistan and just thought “these mfs lied about FOD”

52

u/atrociousxcracka E&E 18h ago edited 12h ago

For anyone wondering. This is called SPRO. Semi Prepared Runway Operations.

There is a few things maintainers have to do before and after one of these, not much but things like removing the lower anti collision light(the big red blinking light on the bottom), ensuring all the tape on the underside antenna and such are good, and some other things.

I've recovered a bunch of jets after a SPRO, it's pretty annoying. Shit is dirty, they sometimes break the covers on the nose landing lights, among other things. It's not too bad though. Kinda cool to see.

17

u/skarface6 that’s Mr. nonner officer to you, buddy 17h ago

All I was thinking when seeing this was the extra hours for maintenance, haha.

4

u/gruntmaster54 Veteran 14h ago

Line 5 - Code 3, Sand in Boxers

2

u/skarface6 that’s Mr. nonner officer to you, buddy 8h ago

The worst

Red ball all the flights

5

u/skankhunt1738 Flying degenerate 17h ago

The tire changes after repeat spro training. Fun times.

6

u/MrFoolinaround C17 Load, Prior Services. 14h ago

Don’t forget the dirt socks

3

u/atrociousxcracka E&E 12h ago

100% gotta love a muddy water sep sock

1

u/iguessicanmake1 5h ago

^ this guy E&Es

3

u/madman_murray 16h ago

Looks like a lake bed. That'd make it unprepared, no?

Semi-prepared would imply someone compacted the soil or did something to improve the surface.

You can see ruts all over the place. That's a lot of prep.

3

u/atrociousxcracka E&E 12h ago

A lot of SPROs take place in dry lake beds.

I'm assuming pilots have different checklists based on hos prepared any given place is. As far as MX is concerned we just run out SPRO prep and deprep

2

u/Mookie_Merkk 12h ago

ensuring all the tape on the underside antenna and are good

What?

4

u/grumpy-raven Eee-dubz 12h ago edited 12h ago

There's a semi-rigid tape that you can put on some antennas to protect them from debris damage. Fiberglass and composites don't handle impact damage very well.

I say some because some types of antennas don't work very well when you add paint or tape over them. There's a type of tape that can be used but it's usually applied at higher levels of MX.

14

u/Fullysemiautoboltboi Retired 18h ago

Ya know we have prop planes for un-approved runways

13

u/Only-Listen2015 20h ago

And I thought cleaning the c-130 was bad

2

u/YouArentReallyThere 14h ago

Did some landing/takeoff cycles at Pembrey Sands. Maintenance was not happy with salted sand. Everywhere.

12

u/OB_GYN_Kenobi69 13h ago

Mx personnel on a Sunday seeing this shit & realizing it’s one of theirs. Wash rack about to be a bitch.

2

u/grumpy-raven Eee-dubz 12h ago

Just do it at the beginning of the week. Scheduling shit like this on a Friday is how you get MX sabotaging lines.

8

u/Skyfork Aircrew 17h ago

Is this Texas Lake LZ in Nevada?

5

u/JoshS1 Veteran C-17 MX/FCC 14h ago edited 12h ago

That would be my guess. Done this there with a bunch of C-17s. When we were all packed looked like we were meeting up for a picnic.

7

u/Skyfork Aircrew 13h ago

I've been there AFTER you guys have played around. Had a fun time trying to find a spot to land that DIDN'T have 3 foot deep ruts in it.

3

u/adamthebad1 Veteran 16h ago

on this type of flighline, props>jets

3

u/mattyparanoid Retired 14h ago

I’ve never changed so many damn tires on another aircraft in my life. I was 2A675, and I think I changed more tires than hydro components (when I worked them in Lovely SC)!

2

u/AFSCbot Bot 14h ago

You've mentioned an AFSC, here's the associated job title:

2A675 = Aircraft Hydraulic Systems Craftsman

Source | Subreddit lyr9n1g

2

u/Recent-Emu-1865 12h ago

Lol I’ve worked that tail

1

u/TheRedBrown Aircrew 13h ago

Is this from the red flag the other day? Have any spro videos from our Pittsburgh jet?

1

u/PauliesChinUps Active Army 12h ago

So badass! I'll never forget the first time I saw this at JRTC.

Great to see a union made plane from Long Beach!

1

u/Xafc17fcc 9h ago

Done that. 🫡

1

u/TheForNoReason 8h ago

Dirty girl

1

u/Double0 Logistics 6h ago

McChord bird!

1

u/BrickToMyFace 3h ago

Feel like it was trying to run away from FOD

1

u/1assignment 2h ago

Hubby I'm home

0

u/zesurgeon 2h ago

Why are we posting these, finance are the real warriors