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Last edited by CTU; 27 June 2019, 12:54.It was the year of fire...the year of destruction...the year we took back what was ours.
It was the year of rebirth...the year of great sadness...the year of pain...and the year of joy.
It was a new age...It was the end of history.
It was the year everything changed.
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Not sure if this story surfaced in the past, but it's an article from IHS in 2014 detailing how the Air Corps were using SitaWare to build a Common Air Operating Picture (CAOP) which could then be built into a Joint Common Operating Picture (JCOP)
* https://systematic.com/media/1851932...nt-picture.pdf
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Originally posted by The Usual Suspect View Post
GlobalEye, another value .. product from SAAB (via Google Translate, Original in Finnish)
My understanding is that this particular airborne box of tricks can detect a jet-ski from up to 400km.
An overnight surveillance flight could be used to radically improve tasking for the next morning's MPA flights.
Any prospect of the Swedes being interested in a low-profile, week-long, narcotics interdiction exercise?
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Conversely of course, people will join if they think that they'll get a rewarding, interesting, challenging career that gives them opportunities to do things they could never do if they worked for Lidl or Aldi.
Pay and being worked like a dog are absolutely important to why people either leave or don't join in the first place - but you aren't going to attract the kind of people you need if all you can offer them are occasional army co-op exercises and counting fishing boats.
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Originally posted by na grohmiti View PostSo now that the air corps will send pilots to the RAAF to be trained and rotate through an operational unit, any chance they would gift us their F/A-18s when they replace them with F35?
I don't think they'll be gifting Growlers and SuperHornets to anyone in the next 30 years...
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Originally posted by ropebag View PostConversely of course, people will join if they think that they'll get a rewarding, interesting, challenging career that gives them opportunities to do things they could never do if they worked for Lidl or Aldi.
Pay and being worked like a dog are absolutely important to why people either leave or don't join in the first place - but you aren't going to attract the kind of people you need if all you can offer them are occasional army co-op exercises and counting fishing boats.
I doubt many ex AC pilots are going to supermarkets when the wages in airlines are higher
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Originally posted by DeV View PostAbsolutely so long as they are being fairly rewarded, financially and non-financial.
I doubt many ex AC pilots are going to supermarkets when the wages in airlines are higher
Ryan air has very few openings for battlespace managers, radar operators, SIGINT techs and loadmasters....
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Originally posted by ropebag View PostI was replying particularly to @GoneToTheCanners point about mission operators, not specifically about pilots - pilots are always going to leave in large numbers given the vastly higher wages they can earn outside, rear crew on the other hand are much less commercially valuable given how few of them are employed in civilian life.
Ryan air has very few openings for battlespace managers, radar operators, SIGINT techs and loadmasters....
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Originally posted by ropebag View PostThey sold them to Canada, and until the Canadians sort out what aircraft they are going to buy to replace their even more antique F/A-18's, will continue to do so until all that's left is scrap.
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Originally posted by na grohmiti View PostSo now that the air corps will send pilots to the RAAF to be trained and rotate through an operational unit, any chance they would gift us their F/A-18s when they replace them with F35?
I am really pleased to see them being sent off to Australia. The RAAF are a world class outfit. I could not think of a better air force for the two lucky guys to go to and they will bring back a wealth of knowledge back to to Air Corps.Last edited by Anzac; 26 July 2019, 13:52.
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Originally posted by Anzac View PostI will be interested to see if they get posted to 35 Sqd who fly the C-27J.
I am really pleased to see them being sent off to Australia. The RAAF are a world class outfit. I could not think of a better air force for the two lucky guys to go to and they will bring back a wealth of knowledge back to to Air Corps.
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