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Tiger Helicopter flying operations suspended, 16 May 2012

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Brendan Cowan

Posted: May 21 2012, 03:50 PM

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From the Defence Media Centre on Wed 16/05/2012:

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Tiger Helicopter flying operations suspended

The Australian Army has suspended Tiger Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter flying operations for training activities due to a concern following the detection of fumes in the cockpit of one of the aircraft.

The Australian Army has a fleet of 22 Tiger helicopters, 19 of which are in the fully capable configuration operating in the fleet. The remaining three aircraft are completing a retrofit program and should return to the fleet later in the year.

Army’s Tiger fleet is not yet in full operational service. It will become fully operational once its capabilities and maturity have been fully tested and proven to the satisfaction of Army and final testing is planned for the end of 2012.

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Sounds like a our Tigers have a similar problem that the USAF is having with the F-22A fleet.

Now there are two types that I never thought I'd draw a connection to in the same sentence!

BC

Warhawk	Posted: May 22 2012, 01:32 PM
ADF Serials Research Co-ord Group: ADF Serials Admin Posts: 1,986 Member No.: 82 Joined: 9-March 06	Though not related, but it is on an operational side: We know of the French ALAT taking 3 Tigre's to Afghanistan in recent years, the German Army Aviation's "HEER" are to deloy later this year two to three Tigers HAPS themselves They have 23 in HEER operation. As Spain is out of the Ghan, that only leaves us to send a few over per participants of the Tiger program. Since we're only held up by night "lighting" issues, can we expect the Germans to have found formation light bulbs for their Tigers? Gordy :ph34r:

Brendan Cowan

Posted: May 30 2012, 09:43 AM

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And they're up again.

This update is from the Defence Media Centre yesterday:

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Tiger helicopters resume flying operations

The Australian Army’s fleet of Armed Reconnaissance Helicopters (ARH) has returned to regular training activities following the lifting of a temporary suspension that was put in place on 16 May 2012.

The suspension was put in place following the detection of fumes in the cockpit of the aircraft.

The Army Operational Airworthiness Authority lifted the suspension late yesterday following a detailed assessment and a recommendation from the Technical Airworthiness Authority to resume flying operations.

There are 22 ARH in the Australian Army’s Oakey and Darwin based fleet, 19 of which are in the fully capable configuration operating in the fleet. The remaining three aircraft are completing a retrofit program and should return to the fleet later in the year. Army’s Tiger fleet is not yet in full operational service.

The ARH will soon deploy on Army’s largest annual foundation warfighting exercise. Exercise Hamel will be conducted in the Shoalwater Bay Training Area over three weeks from 21 June.

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Brendan Cowan

Posted: Aug 5 2012, 12:31 PM

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And they're up again - again:

03/08/2012

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Armed Reconnaissance Helicopters resume flying operations

The Australian Army’s fleet of Tiger Armed Reconnaissance Helicopters (ARH) has returned to regular training activities following the lifting of a temporary suspension which began on 26 June 2012.

The suspension was lifted late yesterday after the Army Operational Airworthiness Authority received a detailed assessment and recommendation to resume flying operations from the Technical Airworthiness Authority.

The suspension was put in place as a safety measure following the precautionary landing of an aircraft at the Shoalwater Bay training area on 25 June when fumes were detected in the cockpit.

The investigation determined that the source of the detected fumes was a faulty capacitor in the power supply module in a cockpit Multi Function Display (MFD).

The fleet has been examined and the faulty power supply modules will be returned to the manufacturer for modification.

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F/A-18 Super Bug	Posted: Aug 20 2012, 01:28 PM
McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet (A21) Group: Members Posts: 173 Member No.: 6,742 Joined: 30-July 12	So why in late 2012 have our Tiger AR Helo's still not been deployed to Afghanistan? The first two ARH helicopters were delivered to Australia on 15 December 2004. ARH deliveries were to be completed by June 2010. Full operating capability was planned for December 2011. What's the hold up? We have 19 operational or just stuff it and let our CAS be US Cobras, Apaches and A-10s. This post has been edited by Martin Edwards on Aug 20 2012, 02:17 PM

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