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Hi Aaamir,
That was a good post. I am going back and revert to my old stand----it wll take at least a minimum of 5 years to get the JF 17 to where the paf thinks that it has become a potent force---so around 2014---15 is the time frame that I presume that this aircraft begins to meet and exceed the standards of paf with a consistency on continuous basis.
For an operator of this system---first you have to be truthful to yourself---you operate, judge, analyze, tear it up and put it back a hundred times, put it through its paces and then some more, till you are satisfied with its operational capabilities, its trust level, its maintenance issues, its ups and downs. Your machine has to know, what you expect from it and and you have to learn what the machine expects from you. That is the limit that you can take the machine upto and the machine has to know as to how you maintain and nurse it.
This man and machine inteface / relationship is as joyful as a personal relationship. Ask a team of operators if they love their aircraft as much as thier spouses or more and that answer will surpirse many. For hardly a year now, we have one sqdrn in service----that is barely no time to see and determine the parameters of this aircraft. We have just begun to sratch the surface.
We will have to take these machines to their limits for them to fail---to determine how far and hard we can push them. For that, you need time. Now, for show---we still do need the numbers in operational sqdrns which will keep the production line moving at a higher pace.
The good thing is that as these aircraft are a replacement of an existing lineup of A5's, F7's and Mirages---we are lucky to have a trained and dedicated crew to train and take over the servicing, maintaining and oprating of this aircraft with a minimal effort---even though the crew will have to be in sync with newer technology, but they already have a good base and foundations to step upto the challenge.
Now, this same challenge maynot be as severe with the J10B / FC20's----for the reason that the it has already been tested and tried in the form of J10----.
But the bottomline is----F16 is still an extremely potent aircraft---.
That was a good post. I am going back and revert to my old stand----it wll take at least a minimum of 5 years to get the JF 17 to where the paf thinks that it has become a potent force---so around 2014---15 is the time frame that I presume that this aircraft begins to meet and exceed the standards of paf with a consistency on continuous basis.
For an operator of this system---first you have to be truthful to yourself---you operate, judge, analyze, tear it up and put it back a hundred times, put it through its paces and then some more, till you are satisfied with its operational capabilities, its trust level, its maintenance issues, its ups and downs. Your machine has to know, what you expect from it and and you have to learn what the machine expects from you. That is the limit that you can take the machine upto and the machine has to know as to how you maintain and nurse it.
This man and machine inteface / relationship is as joyful as a personal relationship. Ask a team of operators if they love their aircraft as much as thier spouses or more and that answer will surpirse many. For hardly a year now, we have one sqdrn in service----that is barely no time to see and determine the parameters of this aircraft. We have just begun to sratch the surface.
We will have to take these machines to their limits for them to fail---to determine how far and hard we can push them. For that, you need time. Now, for show---we still do need the numbers in operational sqdrns which will keep the production line moving at a higher pace.
The good thing is that as these aircraft are a replacement of an existing lineup of A5's, F7's and Mirages---we are lucky to have a trained and dedicated crew to train and take over the servicing, maintaining and oprating of this aircraft with a minimal effort---even though the crew will have to be in sync with newer technology, but they already have a good base and foundations to step upto the challenge.
Now, this same challenge maynot be as severe with the J10B / FC20's----for the reason that the it has already been tested and tried in the form of J10----.
But the bottomline is----F16 is still an extremely potent aircraft---.