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any source for this ?In Grippen & F-18 Engine can be changed in 15 minutes, we need more improvement in this.
In Grippen & F-18 Engine can be changed in 15 minutes, we need more improvement in this.
Source on this pls
BTW there are so many variables involving not only just engine change but every kind of maintenance man hours (MMH) that it'll be hard to narrow it down to solid numbers to publish accurately.
Like Few things to consider such as
Aircraft you have (brand new, been around the block, reworked lately?)
Maintainers you have (newbies, oldies, trained?)
Ops you might be up to (working up, standing down. Training, front line?)
Polices in place where you are, when you are there.
All of these things will make those numbers go up or down. The single most important factor among this is the day in and day out maintenance schedule and training involved in simulated combat environment. The harder the training and more the experienced maintainers the greater the efficiency and quicker is the turn around.
LCA for god sake atm does not even have a proper manual being handed over. Let IAF buddies play with at least a squadron and let them go through every nook and corner of the bird and maintenance schedules. Let the then train themselves day in and day out and then quote a veteran maintainer speaking numbers of MMH. Even then he will quote different set of low and high as per different conditions including variables like climate which may play indeed decisive factor for eg. MMH data at Leh will be different from say Jamnagar. We can only come to a mean or median of estimates at best.
Of course most of the folks like Gripen and F18/F16 or others who have an ulterior motive and a agenda may fudge the numbers to support their claims of MMH. Its simply to make different customers/end users/airforces buy more of these birds, apply MLU's or scrap existing fleet birds and lure them to select their marketed product, etc
Ultimately its a veteran maintainer whose word holds the highest value. If he says that MMH can be improved with more simplistic configuration then IAF should convey that feedback to HAL and improve the bird in future production. If the maintainer is fine in different set of conditions then the median of MMH for different specs like oil change engine change refueling ordnance reload etc etc would be known. We can then may be compare birds within India for better understanding. But no point comparing MMH of different countries as conditions and schedule are very different.. Even a veteran maintainer would point that for sure..
Its 2 hours not 4 hours.4 hours for engine change in Tejas?.I heard somewhere that it takes 3 days .
Gripen in comparison takes only half an hour.
Gun firing alsoWhats the status of FOC now?
Only BVR, refuel on air is left (major)?