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1. improve pilot training (go from 3 stage process to 5 stage ab initio basic intermediate advanced lead in fighter training)
2. conduct better maintenance on aircraft and replace obsolete and technologically defunct aircraft or upgrade obsolete aircraft
3. have better future planning for aircraft serviceability
The problem is NOT 3 step training but the availability of equipment and jets to train. For years, our pilots are being sent directly from the Deepaks to MiG-21s. From a 350 Kt prop trainer to a 800+ Kts supersonic interceptor that has already crossed 2 decades of its overdue retirement time. So whose fault is it? The rules' that has been implemented or the treacherous politicians who don't give a jack about pilots' lives?
HAL, DRDO, ADA, ARDE and other Labs have to unite as ONE unit and be privatized or at least outsource parts manufacturing to budding Aerospace private companies. No other option.
Removing red-tapism, babu-giri and stupid socialist era rules would be far better and automatically get this right.
1. improve pilot training (go from 3 stage process to 5 stage ab initio basic intermediate advanced lead in fighter training)
2. conduct better maintenance on aircraft and replace obsolete and technologically defunct aircraft or upgrade obsolete aircraft
3. have better future planning for aircraft serviceability
follow 3 steps above and IAF crash record will go down!
I think you have suggested this on other threads. I agree with you on 2+3. But to be honest the IAF already operates (and certainly will do in the future) a 5 step traing process- v.basic flight (gliders/light turboprops), basic trainer (currently HAL DEEPAK, future will see Pilatus PC7), intermediate trainer (currently HAL KIRAN, future it will be HAL IJT), advanced training (BAE HAWK, for which 40 are on order for IAF on top of initial 66) and finally conversion/type training carried out on the type the IAF pilot will be flying (MKI, MIG 21, Jag etc).
And with phasing out of old and unreliable planes such as the MIGs and induction of MUCH safer, more reliable and advanced planes, and increased simulation training (which IAF has already identified as a priority) then the crash rate should fall further.
If you look at IAF crashes the majority are to do with mechanical failure and in many of these cases the rookie pilots show true professionalism, often putting off ejecting to steer into empty land. So replacing unreliable and, now, unsafe planes will dramatically improve crash rates. And a few are due to Pilot error but this is to be expected in any AF and there is little that can be done about it- it is split second miscalculations that can never be avoided.
MiG-27 and MiG-21 (non upgraded ones) are the real flying coffins we need to scrap them from service immediately and get a god dam dedicated basic trainer, we should still use a transonic AJT like the T-38 Talon or T-50 golden eagle
Perhaps but I am still unconvinced that conducting a 6 Stage training process is really nessercary and I think the time would be better spent on the pilots being trained on the type they will fly which is the end target. So getting to grips and putting as many hours as possible on the type is surely the best option. Possibly the IAF need to induct more trainer variants of the fighters they have (I am unsure whether there is a shortage of them or if this has been questioned in the past) as having an experienced instructor in the back with a rookie in the front flying in the fighter is surely the best of both worlds- gaining experience on the fighter but having the instructor there in case the rookie pushes to far.
the pilots would be trained on the same trainers until they get to there fighter (im still not sure if in the IAF pilots are given choice of what to fly)
we could procure 250+ NAL Hansa for Ab Initio (baby step fighter training)
PC-7MK2 is already gone through
HAL HJT-36 Sitara
BAE Hawk (we need a good quantity of Hawks)
as for an CAT T-50 from South korea is good but i heard U.S might go in a JV with India for development of a new CAT to replace T-38 Talon
after this stage it is conversion training basically 2 seat variants of the fighter jet used to train the pilots then they go right to the fighter and conduct sorties
i really like the idea of Israeli air force instructors training our pilots at all of our fighter pilot schools having good trainers plus flight instructors will make you a beast pilot in the air
Another Picture of the MiG 29 UB-UPG(Nice colour!)
Can anyone tell me about the strange "thing" above the cockpit?!
No, the IRST is clearly visible in front of the cockpit. My guess is that its some sort of testing sensor. What for i don't know.I've marked it(Red circle).Is that IRST?