Light combat aircraft trials of Navy soon, but no pilots

[samlove]

KOCHI: It seems India needs the support of US Navy to complete crucial trials of the naval version of Light Combat Aircraft (LCA-N). Absence of pilots experienced in carrier-based operations has forced the Aeronautical Development Agency ( ADA), lead partner in the development of LCA-N, to request the US Navy to train its test pilots in catapult assisted take-off and barrier arrested recovery (Catobar).

None of the naval pilots, after the generation who flew Alizes on INS Vikrant, have any experience in Catobar. With this lacuna adding to its carrier woes, the Navy is training a batch of young pilots in US to prepare them to handle MiG29Ks. But the request to train test pilots further exposes ****** in India's defence preparedness. The help has been sought to complete their training before the year-end with a view to carrying out take-off and landing trials on the ski-jump installed at INA Hansa, Goa.

"The aircraft still weighs some 500 kg more than the desired weight. Feedback from each trial is helping us plane it further. Its performance has been steady. But it is the Catobar trials that finally give a thumbs-up to any naval aircraft," a top DRDO source told TOI.

Light combat aircraft trials of Navy soon, but no pilots - The Times of India

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[Abingdonboy]

This makes no sense- the article says that the IN pilots need training on CATOBAR ops but the Mig-29K and N-LCA are both STOBAR configured. I guess a!other case of Desi journalism. They need to be trained on arrested landing (STOBAR ops will require this skill). However the IN has got pilots trained in both STOBAR and CATOBAR ops after sending pilots to Russia and the US to train in both techniques for many years now.

 

[rockstarIN]

?? LCA is not a catobar fighter to begin with.

Its total crap

 

[satishkumarcsc]

People are really dreaming nowadays.

 

[Beerbal]

?? LCA is not a catobar fighter to begin with.

Its total crap

This makes no sense- the article says that the IN pilots need training on CATOBAR ops but the Mig-29K and N-LCA are both STOBAR configured. I guess a!other case of Desi journalism. They need to be trained on arrested landing (STOBAR ops will require this skill). However the IN has got pilots trained in both STOBAR and CATOBAR ops after sending pilots to Russia and the US to train in both techniques for many years now.

Its TOI-let paper dude, TOI-let paper... They don't know difference between Helo and Fighter.. Cheap journalists...

 

[bornmoron]

yeh kya sutiya giri hai ,,,kuch bhi,,,,,Mooh diya bak diya ,,gaand diya hug diya,,,

 

[Hemlock Khalid]

its a global problem... majority of the newspapers around the world dont have qualified reporters for military technology related news... they just try to make news by joining small tit bits they collect from anywhere

 

[janon]

@Capt.Popeye said (when this point was raised earlier) that it is the arrested landing part that they need training for, not the STO. So they will be training with USN aviators who all have mastery of AR.

Mig-29K shares that similarity with the USN's aircrafts.

 

[soumya1989]

Light combat aircraft trials of Navy soon, but no pilots - The Times of India