On night combat missions, the fighter aircraft do not switch on their regular high visibility position lights (on wing tips) and anti collision lights (the bright red strobe) to maintain stealthiness. However since they still need to maintain close formation during ingress/egress, the pilots...
All aerobatic teams adjust their formations and maneuvers from a single vantage point, typically termed Airshow center. To ensure the formations look symmetrical from that vantage point, they even adjust their spacing so that from other vantage points they may appear out of place but from the...
Are GDPs being trained to operate these or are the operators being treated at par with GDPs? In first glance their wings appear to be the same as GDPs whereas Turkish training officers’ wings appear to be distinct as to mark them as drone operators. If these are indeed GDPs, are these grounded...
There was a reorg in Engg branch to combine Aerospace, Avionics, Logistics and MT paths. This resulted in some seniority adjustments so that could be a reason. Also the perennial GDP on top command structure even for purely engineering setups also results in some friction.