Patchesagain:


Who says we have 9 pilots?

Henry120:


When did you sign the Gripen Contract?



It sure as hell didn't take Czech republic 16 years to raise 9 Pilots for their Gripens.

Henry120:


When did you sign the Gripen Contract?



It sure as hell didn't take Czech republic 16 years to raise 9 Pilots for their Gripens.

Henry120:

Who says you have more than 9?

Henry120:


You were telling lies.

stillchris:


why don't you do yourself a favor and give us evidence that you have more than 9 pilots.

bloody mor0n

FighterPilot:



It is because we know we have more than 9, in fact, far more than that.

Patchesagain:


Seaspray 7000E, at less than 80kg, is the mid range Seaspray radar system. It is the
direct successor to the many hundreds of previous generation technology Seaspray radar
systems that are in service world-wide, and is appropriate to medium naval helicopters and
Maritime Patrol Aircraft (MPA) such as the AgustaWestland AW159 and Alenia Aeronautica
ATR 42 and 72, or other platforms. Seaspray 7000E is in service , in production and under
contract on a range of programmes for platforms including AW159 and SH-3D naval
helicopters and Beechcraft 200, King Air 350, CASA CN235, Fokker F27 and Alenia
Aermacchi ATR72 MPA

http://www.selex-es.com/documents/737448/24128094/body_pressback_aesa_family_radar_es.pdf

So, by the wording we see in the artical - a new sea-spray has been released, and it replaces the old seasprays in use with platforms such as the ATR42


So, either:

1. You are only semi-literate
2. You are a lair

Which is it?


Also, the ATOS system has the Seaspray as a fundimental part of it,
http://www.selex-es.com/documents/737448/18917854/body_mm07800_ATOS_LQ_.pdf

Now, 400km radar range citation please

Patchesagain:


uhh... the picture of more than 9 pilots sitting for their pre-flight Briefing?

FighterPilot:


I am personally happy that Sudanese President was not arrested. All South Africans are happy for that move.

FighterPilot:


Gripens and Hawks pilots can fly the same platforms interchangeably

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Henry120:


You have 9 Pilots, and of that number only 6 are actually qualified to fly that Jet.

Henry120:


At present the SAAF can only muster six qualified Gripen pilots who only have 150 flying hours available across the whole Gripen squadron this year, according to Maynier. The annual target for fighter flying hours was 250 for the 2011/2012 period, according to the Department of Defence’s most recent Annual Report.

http://defenceweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=29831:a-dozen-saaf-gripens-in-long-term-storage35:Aerospace




SAAF only has 6 qualified Gripen Pilots, and only 9 Gripen Pilots of a total Gripen crew of 18.

FighterPilot:


SA hawks have avionics that simulate those of gripens. It is a very easy task for pilots to cross floor to other platform like gripens and that's what they do from time to time.

ssaengine:


When last did you slap your wife?

That is the calibre of question you are asking me. I dont waste my time with small boys.


You are the same people who claimed we only had 6 Gripen pilots in 2012, with the same conviction that you claim we now have 9. How did 8 Gripen pilots fly in Sweden in 2012, when you f00ls claimed with total conviction that we only had 6? Why does your mouth suddenly go silent when asked to answer that question?
We took our entire group of Gripen pilots to Sweden in 2012? There were zero pilots left at 2 Squadron only the security guards at the gate? And now you sum up the nerve from somewhere deep down in your bowls to demand we show proof we have more than 9 today? How pathetic.

A 2013 airticle said the SAAF had 18 Gripen aircrew and 52 Hawk aircrew at that time. YOU Nigerians on THIS forum took the liberty of saying 18 = 9 pilots + 9 Navigators. YOU people on THIS forum. Not the SAAF, not Defenceweb, not Janes Defence, not Beegeagle, not SAAB....but YOU social rejects. Now you are demanding proof to counter claims made here, and nowhere else.

Read through this 3 or 4 times until the stu.pidity of your comment sinks in.

FighterPilot:
The gripens were first introduced in SA airspace in 2010. This is contrary to what the slowpoke Henry insinuated by suggesting that gripens have 16 years in SA.

ssaengine:


Aha. We only had 6 according to you in 2012, yet 8 pilots flew in Sweden. Close that dustbin you call a mouth....it stinks.

FighterPilot:
The truth is now out SA combat pilots. Read.

http://www.defenceweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3594&Itemid=350



Maynier says the reply to his question shows that 48% of posts for combat pilots are vacant (29 of
60 posts). It takes seventeen months to train up a combat pilot.

In addition, 58 of 167 helicopter pilot posts (34%) are currently vacant. He adds that it takes
sixteen months to train a helicopter pilot.

Furthermore, 30% of posts for transport pilots are vacant (48 of 156 posts) "and it takes twelve
months to train transport pilots."

man... you are a true dumb he-goat

what your source proves is that you have 31 combat pilots.

31-9=22 Hawks pilots.

dullard


Case Closed.

agaugust:


Your judiciary issued a court order and one man violated it, your 200,000 Southie security forces could not effect an arrest !

A slap on the face of South African court system, remember the Nigerian weapons money $15 million that your court sized, you cowards also released that money back to Nigeria out of fear. We bought MRAP and SAMIL trucks with the cash you siezed and boasted to spend for christmas, but fear of Nigeria made 50 million South Africans tremble and handover our money

South Africa fears everybody :

1. Fears Nigeria
2. Fears Seleka rebels
3. Fears Rhino Poachers
4. Fears Sudan
5. Fears everbody.....50 million cowards

Sudan too has slapped the mouth of South Africa big time.....

stillchris:


bwahaadhahahahahahahaha.....


one question... do aircrew comprise of only pilots?

your comment comes off as a whining
old man.

yoyup are yet to prove you have more than 9 Gripen pilots

Patchesagain:


What datalink do you have to use for such things?

Transmitting images =/= datalink

agaugust:


[s]Any pilot with training on an aircraft can fly it, that does NOT make him combat qualified.

If you need 150 hours for combat qualification, and you have 50 hours only, you will be able to fly the aircraft, but your incompetence will show when real combat comes and the F-7 jet s.hoots down the Gripen jet in 5 minutes of combat[/s]
.

agaugust:


Simulator is NOT real aircraft.

Hawk and Gripen cockpits are very very different.

Speed and mechanical performance also are different.

Gripen pilots trained on Hawk as lead-in trainer, but after leaving the flying school for many years, they have NO qualifying hours to fly Hawk.

The Hawk pilots have NEVER flown a supersonic jet or have tried for a while and stopped, they are NOT qualified to fly Gripen, no hours !

Fool, this man is gonna cause air crashes by interchanging unqualified pilots o !
.

FighterPilot:


Hawks pilots = Gripen pilots.

stillchris:


no patches. stop talking like a novice

that's a silly excuse.

you signed the contract in 98. so definitelt had 10 years to train more than 9 pilots before the aircrafts are delivered.

now it's 17 years and you are stuck with just 9

Henry120:


At present the SAAF can only muster six qualified Gripen pilots who only have 150 flying hours available across the whole Gripen squadron this year, according to Maynier. The annual target for fighter flying hours was 250 for the 2011/2012 period, according to the Department of Defence’s most recent Annual Report.

http://defenceweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=29831:a-dozen-saaf-gripens-in-long-term-storage35:Aerospace




SAAF only has 6 qualified Gripen Pilots, and only 9 Gripen Pilots of a total Gripen crew of 18.

agaugust:


Do your subsonic Hawk pilots also fly supersonic Gripen for 150 hours a year plus 150 hours on Hawk = 300 hours per pilot ?

Show us proof !

FighterPilot:



[size=16]Who spoke of a simulator? Surely, that is not me[/size]

A Nigerian and his limited mental capability again. Man were you ever been to America? I guess you should have known the difference between a simulator and to simulate. Those are two different things. I should have used another word instead like the avionics have been "configured" to those of gripens. Simulators do not even fly and the hawks trainer is not a simulator but a jet. It is a training platform for all gripen pilots.

agaugust:

Left jab, round house punch