C 5 Flight Engineer

some of the things a C5 flight engineer does

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• aviation

[jimm964]

disabled audio?  Pussies...

[eduardalet]

Hey buckeye I don't agree with you, I was a graduate of Basic Flight Engineer in 1980 with a 97 % average and they told me it was the highest they ever had in the history of the school. By the way I was a C141 FE and many times the crew chiefs couldn,t even put the emergency hatch on right. One time walking out to the plane at Hickam the left wing was almost touching the ground, believe or not the crew chief put all the fuel in the left wing. Dumb, he said that was all right. I was a AGE tech.

[eduardalet]

I don't think the best Flight Engineer's come from crew chief We given orders double check everything .Was a highly specialized generator techniciian , honor graduate of class in 1980, average 97% , was promoted by the Chief engineer to Tsgt , at 25 (reserves) , many of the candidate made fun of the fact I was an AGE mechanic but I had the last laugh only 8 out 14 graduated. I was one because I studied 8 hrs a day after class ,I shut down the library with the librarian at midnight at Altus.

[BigBaze27]

I went through FE school with a bunch of Herc guys and the instructors came from that frame too, great guys all of them, I didn't get them though, got the KC10 so now I am passing gas

[BigBaze27]

that is true, it is tough making it through the school if you are not prior maintenance, prior F15 engine troop here. It can be done though if you are not maintenance, just extra studying

[BigBaze27]

LOL..KC10 eng here, we get to fly to a lot of cool places, and we got a lot of ex MH53 engineers in the squadron, and they have some crazy stories. If you want an adrenaline rush, helos are the way to go. KC10's aren't that bad, if you want to fly all over the place

[OPSECHUNTER]

Helos is the way to go. The fixed winged FE job is pretty boring, on the kc10 all you do is orbit and offload gas to a bunch of unappreciative receivers always wanting more. On the c5 you will be a scanner bitch for a year or more and then their mission is marginal. c130s community treat the FEs like shizzle. and the gunner is not merging. If you mean FE's can do a gunners job thats true. But a gunner can't do an FE's job. gunner is FE's extra duty..

[Opiate364]

The video missed the part where the flight engineer(who really doesn't want to fly that day)nitpicks a bunch a nonsense write ups so they don't have to fly.

[obuckeyeh]

If you want to be a good flight engineer be a mechanic first. I spent 7 years as a Flying Crew Chief and the smartest F/E's I ever met were all prior crew chiefs. They had better system knowledge and troubleshooting capabilities.

[jizmchoker]

It was a good gig. Certainly made other airframes easy after going through the 2 year training program. Be ready to get into books though, this program has one of the highest washout rates in the AF. Good ol freddy likes to break in Utaphao, Clark, Bangkok and such for some reason :)