Thursday, May 3, 2018

German Military Pilots Can't Get Enough Flight Time Amid Helicopter Shortages And Are Losing Their Flying Licenses As A Result


DW: 1 in 10 German military pilots lost helicopter licenses for lack of flight time

Bundeswehr pilots can't get enough flight time amid helicopter shortages and are losing their flying licenses as a result. The report is the latest to shed light on the embarrassing state of Germany's armed forces.

More than one-in-10 helicopter pilots in the Bundeswehr lost their flying license in 2017 because they could not absolve the required amount of flight time, the government said on Thursday.

The Defense Ministry released the figures in a response to a parliamentary inquiry by Green Party lawmaker Agnieszka Brugger.

Read more ....

WNU Editor:  This says it all .... Not even a third of the most important types of helicopters are fit for service.

6 comments:

Unknown said...

Proof the Merkel is an unreliable ally.

B.Poster said...

I've been saying it for at least 10 years. I'm pleased to see some are finally catching on.

Anonymous said...

Yeah, yeah, the russian gang again trying to saw distrust among allies.. sure, blame ze Germans..."Germany a parasite".. tells you all :) Germany, for your record, has military problems, true.. and they have to pay more (which Merkel agreed to already), but more can be done and must be done, agreed. But calling Germany a parasite. Do you know what a parasite is? This is symbiosis.. not parasitism :)

Unknown said...

Germany goes as Merkel goes.

Merkel is a parasite.

The proof is she is the type of conservative that takes any Leftists idea and then say I can manage that better than you. That is she can manage the decline better.

You would hope with a science PhD the person would be smarter, but alas she is more like a weather vane.

Bob Huntley said...

Smith. Like most world leaders I imagine she is really just looking out for her own interests and so the country goes down the drain. Been that way for decades in the USA.

Unknown said...

Merkel has no interests just ego.

She has no offspring.
She has no need of a job.
She has no need of a nursing home. The fat Fraulein will pull a Kennedy and croak in office.

She literally has no needs except maybe one and that would be legacy. She made a decision to trash that, so we're back to she has no needs/interests.