In a story probably few of you care about:
Afghanistan enhances airspace management capacity
I just want to give a shout out to the author(s) for writing a superb piece of fiction. This move was solely about putting money into Afghanistan's pockets and has nothing to do with safety or "capacity enhancements." Both are fiction because both are impossible given the sorry, sorry state of the Afghan equipment. Where did that come from? America! Why doesn't it work? Afghanistan. Fuel for generators? Siphoned off or not delivered. Spare parts for radar? HAHAHAHAHA! Outsource the maintenance to the lowest bidder? Done and pay no attention to the 80+% attrition rate of the maintainers and air traffic controllers. Wait a minute, there's a plan?
BWAHAHAHAHAHA! "Training?" We have tried that going back to 2006 or so. Total number trained by 2013? 8. Total needed? Over 40. Who will run the mission under the Afghan gov't? Americans! That's right, we're still footing a portion of the bill and US contractors are doing the work.
That may be the case on paper. In the real world, not so much. If anything the transition has made the process more complex as we dump DoD comm for Afghan commercial comm. There's still deconfliction needed between civ and mil flights, so we'll just do that via local phones. Brilliant! The process is more convoluted now to boot, adding at least one extra group of airmen to coordinate, but let's make some money.
Pure propaganda. I shared this at work and lulz were had all around.
Afghanistan enhances airspace management capacity
I just want to give a shout out to the author(s) for writing a superb piece of fiction. This move was solely about putting money into Afghanistan's pockets and has nothing to do with safety or "capacity enhancements." Both are fiction because both are impossible given the sorry, sorry state of the Afghan equipment. Where did that come from? America! Why doesn't it work? Afghanistan. Fuel for generators? Siphoned off or not delivered. Spare parts for radar? HAHAHAHAHA! Outsource the maintenance to the lowest bidder? Done and pay no attention to the 80+% attrition rate of the maintainers and air traffic controllers. Wait a minute, there's a plan?
BWAHAHAHAHAHA! "Training?" We have tried that going back to 2006 or so. Total number trained by 2013? 8. Total needed? Over 40. Who will run the mission under the Afghan gov't? Americans! That's right, we're still footing a portion of the bill and US contractors are doing the work.
That may be the case on paper. In the real world, not so much. If anything the transition has made the process more complex as we dump DoD comm for Afghan commercial comm. There's still deconfliction needed between civ and mil flights, so we'll just do that via local phones. Brilliant! The process is more convoluted now to boot, adding at least one extra group of airmen to coordinate, but let's make some money.
Pure propaganda. I shared this at work and lulz were had all around.
