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Forum: Military Aviation

30th Aug 2006, 18:12

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Future Carrier (Including Costs)

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Posted By Lone Kestrel

Force Elements At Readiness. ie the...

Force
Elements
At
Readiness.

ie the number of ac/pilots that the Force has to be able to field at a given readiness state. JCA is claiming to be able to deliver a higher FEAR compared to the...

Forum: Military Aviation

30th Aug 2006, 15:57

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Future Carrier (Including Costs)

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Posted By Lone Kestrel

Agreed on the mad place a flight deck can be and...

Agreed on the mad place a flight deck can be and also the value of Spadeadam (however, it is improving).

My understanding is that a lot of the JCA live flying may have to be done state side to...

Forum: Military Aviation

30th Aug 2006, 15:05

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Future Carrier (Including Costs)

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Posted By Lone Kestrel

So how many days in the year will the carrier...

So how many days in the year will the carrier need JCA to be embarked? Is it just a 4-ship every other week or, to enable the ship’s company to be fighting ready, will the entire air wing need to be...

Forum: Military Aviation

30th Aug 2006, 14:19

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Future Carrier (Including Costs)

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Posted By Lone Kestrel

Navaleye I can accept all you say for GR7/9,...

Navaleye

I can accept all you say for GR7/9, but JCA is supposed to so easy to land on board, day or night, that CQ time will be very short – a JSF team member told me that it’s just a press of a...

Forum: Military Aviation

30th Aug 2006, 11:15

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Future Carrier (Including Costs)

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Posted By Lone Kestrel

Agreed, you can skin the cat both ways. However,...

Agreed, you can skin the cat both ways. However, I am not convinced that deploying/embarking for protracted periods is the way forward in terms of cost and overall effectiveness – where will the...

Forum: Military Aviation

30th Aug 2006, 10:22

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Future Carrier (Including Costs)

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Posted By Lone Kestrel

If (god forbid) we bought the right MASC...

If (god forbid) we bought the right MASC aircraft, the FAA would even have a Multi stream to offer those who didn't make the F35 cut (or point them at deepest Cornwall).

A big if, but why not...

Forum: Military Aviation

30th Aug 2006, 09:44

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Future Carrier (Including Costs)

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Posted By Lone Kestrel

The main problem is that to fly fixed wing in the...

The main problem is that to fly fixed wing in the RN the only outlet is Harrier. Trying to identify the person with the aptitude etc at the recruitment stage is still a bit of a black art and...

Forum: Military Aviation

30th Aug 2006, 09:01

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Future Carrier (Including Costs)

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Posted By Lone Kestrel

How many of the 36 or so pilots were only staying...

How many of the 36 or so pilots were only staying in to collect the FRI and have since left once the money/commitment ran out?

Given an average return of service of say 15 years per pilot and...

Forum: Military Aviation

29th Aug 2006, 21:20

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Future Carrier (Including Costs)

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Posted By Lone Kestrel

I understood that the cost of updating the Sea...

I understood that the cost of updating the Sea Harrier was so high that it was always going to be a non-starter given the service life left in the airframes. Therefore, the RN jumped at the idea of...

Forum: Military Aviation

29th Aug 2006, 20:15

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Future Carrier (Including Costs)

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Posted By Lone Kestrel

The problem is that the FAA can’t meet their...

The problem is that the FAA can’t meet their commitments – they are supposed to be part of the RAF FEAR requirement. The failure to be able to field sufficient RN pilots is risking the Harrier...

Forum: Military Aviation

29th Aug 2006, 19:34

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Future Carrier (Including Costs)

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Posted By Lone Kestrel

I guess the writing is on the wall for fixed-wing...

I guess the writing is on the wall for fixed-wing Fleet Air Arm – it is just too small to be self sustaining –suggest the RN wake up and smell the coffee!!!

Forum: Military Aviation

23rd Aug 2006, 11:01

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Future Carrier (Including Costs)

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Posted By Lone Kestrel

Late Arm Live, What makes you think 801...

Late Arm Live,

What makes you think 801 Sqn’s, or 800’s for that matter, manpower problems will a short lived thing. Surely the writing is on the wall that the fixed wing element of the Fleet...

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