Like I said, they are being trained by Italian and American insturctors…

Here is a picture of a new pilot being trained on the FT-5. These will be replaced by American T-38’s…

So flight training in an FT-5 qualifies an already elderly pilot as proficient on the F-7? In Albania perhaps, but not in the real world. Besides, both pilots look old enough to have learned flying in Hoxha’s years.

Here’s another link:
(snip)http://www.mod.gov.al/eng/lajme/lexo_lajm.asp?IDNews=924
Still want to maintain Albanian pilots aren’t being trained in Italy?

I never said Albanian pilots weren’t trained in Italy, but then again: neither does this wonderfully bland article. Empty propaganda pur sang.

LOL… what serb propagadist told you that…

Hmmm… perhaps a Serb propagandist in the Albanian Ministry of Defense? Involved in finding methods of disposing surplus Albanian air force aircraft, including F-7s? “Delivered flying, if the pay is right.” Sorry if that crumbles your world view, but it wasn’t all that realistic to start with i’m sorry to inform you.

there are many F-7 pilots… even after many of them switched over to civlian jobs… for more pay… but more pilots are being trained by the US and Italy…

So according to you, the Albanian air force gives pilots an infinitite type rating? If you hear someone knocking on your door tonight, please open because it might be reality dropping by :rolleyes:

But i do have to hand it to you Shqiponja: you certainly know to find the right people to pick a fight with here. At least your Serb soulmates have links to Venik to back their nonsense up with. Trust Steve to have found T-38 transfer requests to Albania if those existed…

Ah, one of those “sure-i-can-post-sources-but-i-don’t” types. Too bad my info about the Albanian AF isn’t coming from my beloved Serbian friends, but rather from a certain country which F-7s are looking pristine because they hardly ever are dragged out of their nicely naturally airconditioned mountain hangars… A bit closer i guess than linked-up pictures from a (rather nice, actually) Polish magazine. Besides, aren’t Poles a Slav brethren-people of those kind Serbs?

I’m sure the moderators can really appreciate Shqiponja’s behaviour. I can actually provide a source as to how he is expected to behave: http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=27964

Futhermore doing a 8 hours+ mission in a single seat cockpit will be increasing the risk of pilot fatigue induced crashes at least at day 3 of any conflict. You can´t eat, you can´t drink and you can´t pee in the FB-22. Flying global reach missions with it will be exhausting and nearly impossible in a large sclae conflicht, when you have to generate sorties.

You know that fighter adagium: “I feel the need… the need for SPEED!”… :diablo:
I would, however, be careful if i were a Canadian doing some gunnery training anywhere within those reaches of Global Power.

Albania’s F-7s are out of service for some two years or so, with IIRC only the Air Force commander still qualified. The F-5 and F-6s are their nominal operational force.

As for the upgrade: Seahawk is the one who makes sense.

Ah yes, those non-confirmed USAF-owned nuclear weapons across Europe. Somebody somewhere should start thinking about being consistent in secrecy. The following list of Munition Support Squadrons (the units that handle the weapons) was originally published as a recruiting tool about all interesting places you could get stationed 🙂

http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/agency/usafe-munss.htm

Cheers for that, apologies for boring you guys with my theories 😉