What is worse, much worse, is the lack of NVG compatibility. I was saved literally a second or so from a mid-air collision by my Air Engineer spotting the confliction on the flight deck and by my Co Pilot reacting instinctively and immediately to the call. We were operating lights out over Pakistan, complete with IR strobes. We did not have TCAS (Hercs do now), but we had an NVG compatible flight deck.. I understand MR2 has no IR strobes, an aircraft radar which is not a no go item and does not have an NVG compatible flight deck. Very poor radar service over Afg, this aircraft is quite literally, a mid-air collision waiting to happen.
Most astonishingly of all, we were receiving a radar service at the time, by a Brit AWACS. We were being controlled by an IDRO a non-qualified fighter controller.
Why is the Nimrod MR2 the only large multi-engine aircraft without TCAS?
Why does this aircraft not have IR strobes?
More cost saving measures?
The lack of TCAS almost killed us, but the NVG and quite possibly IR strobes on the conflicting aircraft saved us.
When is the MoD and Nimrod IPT going to stop playing around with peoples' lives?
Last edited by nigegilb; 27th November 2007 at 15:10.