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January 22, 2006 at 4:01 pm in reply to: How Did the MiG29 Handle in the German Air Force? #2602569

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Is that in wartime or peace time? The Airbus shootdown in the gulf by the robocruiser (AEGIS class) involved lots of requesting permission to fire at a target before the captain of the ship actually fired… You’d think the captain of the most sophisticated US warship with radars supposedly so impressive they could identify targets by counting the number of turbine blades in the engines of the target would have more autonomy.

Equally when those two F-15s shot down those two Blackhawks they asked for permission first. It was the AWACs controller that got fired because he was supposed to know they weren’t Hinds… somehow.

Under specia lsituations both sides act the same way and responsibilty is given up the chain of command. KAL007 is only interesting in the way the intercept was made, not in the decision to fire.

January 21, 2006 at 4:17 pm in reply to: How Did the MiG29 Handle in the German Air Force? #2602905

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Mensch, hast Du eine Ahnung.. Eastern intercepts were exactly as remote contolled by CGI as Western were from AWACS.. Get coordinates from target, acquire target by radar, arm the missiles, wait for permission to shoot, trigger! What is the big huge difference? And what if your CGI contoller said – Man, squeeze the last sh!t out of your MiG and kick this Phantom’s a$$! Is it still flying the machine to its minimum capabilities?

Daddy and teachers told you how Russians were evil and stupid and you now repeat the same without thinking..

Read about intercepts that did go wrong, especially KAL 007. The difference is simple, for NATO flyers the pilot of the lead aircraft was responsible for making the intercept and he chosse how to do it. The final decision always lay with him.

In the WarPac the fighter controller on the ground was responsible for the way the intercept was done and the final decision lay with him. Which made WarPac standard tactics a bit more static.

The rest lay with the unit and the indivdual pilot, however the difference in the system remained.

January 20, 2006 at 12:28 pm in reply to: How Did the MiG29 Handle in the German Air Force? #2603397

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Not myth but reality, as the GDR operated the way I described. I would not rule out the possibility that some Soviet Unions were operating differently, but the GDR was not. And that is all I´m saying.

January 19, 2006 at 5:34 pm in reply to: How Did the MiG29 Handle in the German Air Force? #2603635

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You sound almost like a recruiting leaflet. 😉 And what does flying eastern way mean? Flying the aircraft to its minimum capabilities and instead of making decisions passing an official written request on Politbyro and wait for an answer?

Kind of yes. If the politburo is the fighter controller on the ground, which was responsible for the way any intercept was performed. Soviet doctrine put the responsibility for any tactical decision in the hands of the fighter controllers on the ground. You should know that better then me.

January 19, 2006 at 5:31 pm in reply to: How Did the MiG29 Handle in the German Air Force? #2603637

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The selected ones were ex-MiG-21M pilots from the same JG-3 “Wladimir Komarow” Fighter Regiment.

As such their experience in BVR environment was just “silch” “zero” “nada” “nyet”…they came from a MiG-21M unit, what kind of BVR combat, tactics, philosofy or so do you expect they would build?…

ACM is a different story, but its pretty well known that most users on the Warsaw Pact, even soviet themselves never used the MiG-21 to their full extent due to doctrinal issues…please read my previous post, advanced ACM and aerobatics methods were introduced into USSR by 1986, I don’t know if Eastern Europe patterns modified accordly those manuals and basic procedures/philosofies, but soviets were rushing to do it at a “force” level…they never managed to do it thorugh, altohrugh they were some awesome well trained units out there…not only in East Europe :)…

Most of the pilots begin their conversion course back into DDR by 1988-89, there was not just time to develop doctrine, tactics or so…they flew their MiG-29 like most flew their MiG-21s…no doctrine for advanced ACM, BVR combat, etc…

If they had a pure MiG-21 background, how is it possible that the eastern pilots had more flight hours on the MiG-29, then those western pilots that were training them. Many of the NVA pilots were MiG-29 pilots even before re-unification.

January 15, 2006 at 2:40 pm in reply to: AMS 14/01/2006 (10 photos) #571604

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The MD-11 is awesome.

January 3, 2006 at 6:08 pm in reply to: Your Best Photo of 2005 (Merged) #585772

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Ok just my 5 best airliner pics

January 3, 2006 at 5:56 pm in reply to: First Pics of the Year from Glasgow #585795

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The BMI is nice

January 3, 2006 at 5:50 pm in reply to: What routes/airlines Would you Want to see coming to your local airport? #585804

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For DUS

I would have liked EasyJet to NCL or anywhere in the UK
Continetal with 757 to the US would be nice
American Airlines should come back
and ANA shoukld return aswell

December 27, 2005 at 5:11 pm in reply to: Aeroflot Goes Boeing!! #595730

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I remember an interview with their CEO in which he stated that Airbsu will take over their small body fleet. He said nothing about their long range needs. So I thought they were leaning towards Boeing.

December 26, 2005 at 3:15 pm in reply to: Very good day at AMS! (25/12/05) #596193

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great shots m8

December 24, 2005 at 2:09 pm in reply to: B737 vs. A32X #597460

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Between those two aircraft the biggest difference is in the airline you fly and not the aircrafts themselves. Seat ptch is more important then aircraft type on both aircrafts. Although I must say that charter A320 are even more crammped then 737s and therefore I generall prefer the 737. Unfortunately next Summer i will be flying to the canaries on an A320. those will be long 4,5 hours.

December 23, 2005 at 5:31 pm in reply to: A few pictures (23/12/05) from the 'enthusiast unfriendly' Gatwick #598173

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Or bring basic dutch spotting equipment, the 2,50m ladder. 😀

December 22, 2005 at 6:55 pm in reply to: Rheine (Germany) Airbase Flyout #476090

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Here are some more pics from the event. And thank you for the kind words.

notice the broken wingbadge painted on the underside of the leading plane in the last photo

December 22, 2005 at 6:48 pm in reply to: Santa's Christmas thread #598892

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One retro Condor 757 🙂

Thank you very much m8. Could you email me the fullsize jpg or psd, so that i can make myself an A4 print of the design plz.

It turned out as lovely as I expected knowing your skills in that area. And nice to see you back. You have been missed.
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