[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by woode

Ah, the bit about the Air Force and plane custody makes sense now. When he said "accept the aircraft" I didn't think he was referring to actually accepting the bird, being as that happens only every few years at most. On the maintenance side after it's accepted from depot is post-depot inspection (a shortened phase/isochrono inspection sorta), ground turn checks, mission equipment gets installed, then another full FCF, then fix everything and she's an up asset again. Can take anywhere from a day or two to a few weeks.

Usually we send a few maintainers w/ the flight crew to accept the bird. (Probably isn't the case with smaller birds? Although 53s aren't exactly small lol) We actually had a bird get the wrong paint scheme out of depot not too long ago - that was interesting. We ended up accepting it anyways, though.

totally unacceptable