About the RAAFs existing C-130s.
In TLWverse, would the RAAF C-130Es stick around? Or at least some of them?
I'm guessing that the six planes that were sold to a civilian owner and eventually ended up in Pakistan never leave Australia in TLWverse?
At least in @, 37 Squadron started converting from the C-130E to the C-130J in September 1999.
For a brief period in 1999-2000, 36 Squadron operated 4 C-130E while 37 Squadron was converting.
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I'll get to FPDA later. Time is short as I have essays to mark.
RAAF C-130E - In TLW I simply see no way where these are sold off! If nothing else, old aircrew will be recalled and they'll be running cargo runs in the continent and out into the islands, NZ etc. That liberates the new C-130 for front line operational use.
F-18. Interesting, we both came up with very similar figures in the scenario, it tends to validate thinking.. Use your figure as you have already factored it in.
SQN sizes: for small fast movers and stuff like C-47 I'm using that as a calculation number. To keep a SQN of 12 aircraft operational, you need about 20 in the system. Different for big birds like C-130, P-3, C-17 etc. Attrition is lower and utility rates higher.
So it's a calculation of '12 in the SQN + (say) 8 for attrition + cycling in maintenance and as 'available hot spares' = about 20'
We have used a thing called an 'Administrative SQN'. For example, in the RN most WWII floatplanes assigned to warships as catapult aircraft were in the same SQN, and it was enormous in numbers but scattered globally. The SQN was an admin beast only becuase everything has to belong to something and someone has to coordinate it all. In this, the RAAFAR flying SQN are semi-administrative with detached Flights - there's just no set rules on how big the flight can be. So 'XX SQN Detached Flight A' in Scherger can be as big as you need as can the other 2, and the SQN HQ can be anywhere but should normally be where one of the flights is. So that SQN might be 40 aircraft spread hither and yon with the detached flights being semi-independent, but all under the one admin system. Hope that makes sense, I don't know if US forces use something like that.
Cheers: Mark
RAAF C-130E - In TLW I simply see no way where these are sold off! If nothing else, old aircrew will be recalled and they'll be running cargo runs in the continent and out into the islands, NZ etc. That liberates the new C-130 for front line operational use.
F-18. Interesting, we both came up with very similar figures in the scenario, it tends to validate thinking.. Use your figure as you have already factored it in.
SQN sizes: for small fast movers and stuff like C-47 I'm using that as a calculation number. To keep a SQN of 12 aircraft operational, you need about 20 in the system. Different for big birds like C-130, P-3, C-17 etc. Attrition is lower and utility rates higher.
So it's a calculation of '12 in the SQN + (say) 8 for attrition + cycling in maintenance and as 'available hot spares' = about 20'
We have used a thing called an 'Administrative SQN'. For example, in the RN most WWII floatplanes assigned to warships as catapult aircraft were in the same SQN, and it was enormous in numbers but scattered globally. The SQN was an admin beast only becuase everything has to belong to something and someone has to coordinate it all. In this, the RAAFAR flying SQN are semi-administrative with detached Flights - there's just no set rules on how big the flight can be. So 'XX SQN Detached Flight A' in Scherger can be as big as you need as can the other 2, and the SQN HQ can be anywhere but should normally be where one of the flights is. So that SQN might be 40 aircraft spread hither and yon with the detached flights being semi-independent, but all under the one admin system. Hope that makes sense, I don't know if US forces use something like that.
Cheers: Mark