Afghan exchange SNAs?

[Beans]

Interesting article about training up the Afghan Army Air Corps from the WSJ.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122091943902612681.html?mod=hpp_us_pageone

 

[HackerF15E]

Am I missing the part in that article where they talk about Afghan SNAs?

 

[Beans]

My title is a bit of an extension from the quote [in the article referencing fact that Afghan pilots will be heading to states next year for training in English language followed by flight school], hence the question mark at the end of it.

 

[SkywardET]

Very interesting. How does one unteach a culture of bad habits (or rather, less than ideal practices)? I guess we'll find out.

 

[Uncle Fester]

If we can teach Saudis, we can teach these guys.

 

[Flash]

If we can teach Saudis, we can teach these guys.

Since when were we able to teach the Saudis?

 

[BACONATOR]

Since when were we able to teach the Saudis?

I'm just curious why they are late to EVERY meeting. Cultural?

 

[phrogpilot73]

I'm just curious why they are late to EVERY meeting. Cultural?

Insha'Allah...

 

[BACONATOR]

insha'allah...

בעזרת השם

 

[Uncle Fester]

Since when were we able to teach the Saudis?

Didn't say we could teach them very much. :icon_tong

 

[bert]

Since when were we able to teach the Saudis?

Threadjack....

In the HT's back in the day, my Flight Leader used to assign us to sand-bag Saudi/Kuwaiti student solos as punishments for anything we did to piss him off. He once caught me playing golf in between a form brief and my inevitable cancellation (in my defense, we were on the wait list for aircraft and were #5 behind another set of forms) and my subsequent flight with one of the al-brothers is still the closest I've come to dying in an aircraft day-VFR. But we can all laugh about it now....

 

[Mumbles]

^ From the stankonia????

 

[Mumbles]

Those Saudi clowns were living all over the Whiting BOQ around late summer 2001....hootin and hollerin all night long. It would piss me off somethin fierce. And then.... all of a sudden, those a-holes weren't there anymore.

 

[bert]

^ From the stankonia????

He gave it a good shot with that as well, but instead it his preferred position as dash-2: on lead's six with no step up and paying no particular attention to how close he was.

 

[Gatordev]

Those Saudi clowns were living all over the Whiting BOQ around late summer 2001....hootin and hollerin all night long. It would piss me off somethin fierce. And then.... all of a sudden, those a-holes weren't there anymore.

They came back. My buddy had the strangest FAM 0 with his Saudi onwing. He had descriptions for parts of the aircraft that defied logic. I can't remember any examples, maybe Bunk can, but I think at one point the "oil-to-fuel heat exchanger" made the pilot cool in the cockpit. And he didn't know the difference between right and left (and it wasn't a language problem).