I understand and share your opinion. Raw flight hours number doesn’t translate in any indication regarding pilot’s proficiency. I am in the opinion that pilot should be categorized and “rated” upon their “category”. Just like Mil pilots.

So, to be back on MS804, we can “agree” that Mr Jouty is only making some diversion unless we should categorize him as the worst professional ever leading the BEA. That led me to the original question:

What was the cargo and why haven’t we seen yet the airplane manifest?

Su does what the requirements request them to do. The buyer try to field breaking through technologies while still securing existing capabilities…
2 decades after the PakFa IOC, someone will ask if the thing can blast some guys with cheap bombs… That’s where the test begin. There are no rooms for being pretentiously elitist. It’s a weapon system. If you don’t think so, you might have mistaken this thread for that of a fashion designer 😉

Why China wants U.S. military jet engines

Prosecutors said Man was working with an associate in China to buy and export engines made by Pratt & Whitney and General Electric (GE), which are found in a range of top U.S. military aircraft, including the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the F-22 and the F-16 fighter jets. She was also found to have tried to export a General Atomics drone, and technical data for the different hardware items.

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A distasteful sour of Dejà Vue

Rémi Jouty, the director of French accident investigation agency BEA [at] a press briefing in Paris on June 9:
“What was unique was the operator’s choice to comply with the regulation by hiring pilots with as little experience as possible,”

Isn’t 6000 flight hours not enough to drive that automated marvel?

But who is Rémy Jouty?

Rémi Jouty on the Germanwings crash:

– Rémi Jouty, BEA director, said he [Lubitz, the young copilot] had “practised this act” but with “no noticeable effect” during the outward flight.
– I can’t speculate on what was happening inside his head; all I can say is that he changed this button to the minimum setting of 100 feet and he did it several times

Remy Jouty a controversial figure in the line of the French Pilot representative union:

Le syndicat de pilotes SNPL veut porter plainte contre le directeur du BEA, qui aurait informé le gouvernement des premiers résultat de l’enquête technique avant le procureur de la République.
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The French Pilot union, the SNPL, would like to sue the BEA director as it has leaked early results of the BEA inquiry to the Fr gov even before they were released to the prosecutor

Source:
http://www.ainonline.com/
Les Echos.fr

It appears to me that this doc was already posted some times ago.

B/w thanks for the GAF doc you posted yesterday.

Military helicopter crashes in Montenegro

Another crash earlier today. This time a Montenegrin Gazelle with two very experienced pilots and a recently overhauled bird.

The crash picture clearly show that a simple diagonal bracing struts or at least a better installation of the viviane sight would have resulted with one of the pilot NOT suffering from a dramatic brain injury.*

Diagonal bracing cost: 50 to 150$
Brain trauma caring cost and compensation : 1M$

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Another view of the system as fitted today

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Pathetic design, is that a copyrighted corporate appellation? 😡

*Admire also the elegant but efficient original design by aerospatial with the cabin fully sustaining the crash impact keeping it’s full integrity to preserve the pilots
**pls read sustained crash loads – thanks

This is an interesting illustration of the extent to which you can’t imagine aerial combat being anything other than the contest of kinematics that the Eurofighter was designed for. You might as well be a 1930s naval officer asking how a practically unarmed, lightly armored, flat topped airport on a ship could hope to survive once the enemy’s battleships closed the distance between them…

Develop into a missile fight at the edge of their envelopes? Why on earth would an F-35 pilot need fear an enemy missile shot from the edge of its envelop? The F-35 wouldn’t even have been detected…

Meanwhile the F-35 carries air to air weapons every bit as effective as those on the Eurofighter, but the difference is that it won’t be forced to take low quality shots from the “edge of their envelope.” The F-35 will be able to take high probability shots from the heart of the envelope… assuming it chooses to enter the fight at all.
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Very good post, thank you.

Russia behind cyberattacks on MH17 investigation team

the German intelligence service Bundesverfassungsschutz (BfV) in a report on Russia’s digital espionage activities [states that] the Russians were trying to get hold of information about MH17, the Telegraaf reports.

EDIT:
I am not sure if that “news” is really diff from what have been already posted last years. See it more as a confirmation of assertions made earlier by British Journalists at a time when some new material would be accessible to the justice (read above post).

Source:
NL times