<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=108866.msg5132961#msg5132961">Quote from: Callie Del Noire on 29-08-2011, 19:25:38</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Okay.. the P-3 Orion is on it's way out after 40+ years as a navy workhorse aircraft. I've worked on ASW (Anti-Surface/Sub Warfare) aircraft like the P-3 and S-3 (small jet that did the same job) for 15 years. most of it on the P-3. When I started on it in 2000, there was contract to come up with a replacement aircraft. Boeing won the contract, despite a LOT of flaws/issues, and now that they are ONLY about 4 years behind they are starting to hire civilian reps to train/assist navy techs with repairs.<br/><br/>Instead of hiring former Navy Techs with experience on the electronics/systems that the system will use (Radar, Computers, radios, Infra-red sensors, and other electronic systems), they want a systems manager who has 3 years experience on 737s as well as 6 years general avionics (ie.. the systems I just mentioned) experience.<br/><br/>So instead of hiring..say.. ME. They'll get some jet jockey civilian who has never messed with mission specific electronic systems. Or had any experience at ALL with the Navy's maintenance practices.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>Now that makes more sense. I thought you were talking about computer programs and hardware I had never heard of before. Though you sorta were, just not in the way I had thought. >_><br/><br/>I could see how that would tick you off. You are right, the civilians probably wont know how to handle the systems as well. Well how to think about it with an 'in the field' sort of mind.