--- gilbert menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I will not go into the details of carrier pilot > training on this > forum. Let me put it to you and your airport > sidekick Phillip this > way-- Would you train a prospective Grand Prix > driver on a live track > during an F1 race at Sepang or Interlagos? Obviously > the training has > to be graduated. > What was Tom Cruise doing ashore at the top gun air > base at Miramar, > California, if you saw the movie *Top Gun*? , > besides making love to > Kelly MacGillis, that is? A classic case of > advanced training ashore. > When do you train a Labrador to assist blind or > disabled people? > Only when the dog is a year old, has matured, and > completed basic > training. Do you want me to get down to basics any > further? On > second thoughts, I will leave it at that. > In my next mail I will tell you about pilot training > in the > Australian Navy in the 1970s when they had a > solitary carrier called > HMAS MELBOURNE(Vikrants sister). Or maybe you should > ask your > neighbours out there. > regards, Gilbert Menezes. > I
Gilbert, Please read my posting carefully. 1. I stated that training with specific carrier-based aircraft ought to be carried out on the carriers. These type of aircraft are wasted on land-based training. Sure, train the pilots on trainer aircraft at land-based training school (I believe there are such schools all around the country), but is Dabolim a junior training school? 2. Taking your analogy, Grand Prix drivers do not train on normal highways enforcing the authorities to close these for X number of hours every day. They train on special grounds, rising in level from go-karts to F1 standard. Your comparison of GP drivers to airpilots stands to naught as it brings precisely to my point - the GP drivers practice on GP tracks, therefore stands to reason that naval pilots should train on aircraft carriers. Besides, the Air Force has a number of airfileds - don't they? Why can't the navy pilots train with the AF boys and girls? Are the navy chaps in any way different from the AF chaps? 3. Re Tom Cruise, you are talking of an air base in the deseret. Was the air base a civilian one before it was converted to a navy / airforce one? Or was it a purpose-built base *for* the use of the armed forces? 4. Re your analogy to labrador training, see 2 above. Incidentally, where did the navy pilots train before Dabolim was "captured" in the conquest of 1961? Did all of a sudden Dabolim, the "prize", became indispensable for the Navy? Why is it that the Navy flexes it muscles and enforces its rules on what was and should be a *civilian* airport? If Dabolim has become a training station (as you state), why is the Navy behaving like a bully boy on the adjoining Dabolim beach preventing fisherfolk from earning their livelihood as they had done for ages before the Indian Navy came on the scene? Are they any 'danger' to the trainees? Cheers, Gabriel. Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com
