Our instrumentation guys are really the unsung heroes of our test programs.

They're thinking about where they can install cameras or those accelerometers.

We have monitor hundreds and even up to you know over a thousand parameters on a test aircraft at any time.

Hello and welcome to the Fighter Pilot Podcast. I'm your host Vincent Iolo Carl Sangello and lately

on these episodes the non-numbered ones we've just been introducing the subject and maybe the

co-host and getting right to it and some of you audience members have complained that you sort of miss

the pre-2023 format with my usual jello isms and updates and listener questions so we're going to

change that up today and I've got Ken Katz joining me to just kind of banter a little bit we'll answer a

few questions talk about our lives and get to a fun interview he's got prime time how's it going?

Well hi Jello it's been a while looking forward to catching up. No doubt I can't really say welcome

to the show because in a lot of ways you have been the show lately. Well that's not overstated but

it's been fun to put on some episodes with some really cool guests. No doubt and I've got it on my

little agenda here to ask you about some of the episodes you have released lately and what we

are going to talk about today but first off what's new with you I mean like I said we've hurt from

you but we don't really know what's happening in your life maybe. Well I've been really busy at my

real job partly we've been doing proposal work for putting on a system on a new military aircraft

partly it's been sustaining our current products we're facing some very serious

challenges with the supply chain for electronic components and for aerospace systems if something

isn't available you just can't put on a replacement part it's a big deal because first the replacement

part itself has to be qualified to show that it complies with the specifications and then the

system that uses the part needs to be requalified with the new part and all that requires some

combination of analysis and tests so it's quite an expensive and time consuming exercise

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