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Sunday, February 22, 2009

Naval pilots undergoing training on MiG-29Ks in Russia

MiG-29KThe Navy’s acquisition of the 45,000-tonne Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov may have run into serious cost and time overruns.

But it has not come in the way of the type conversion training in Russia of Indian naval pilots who will fly the MiG-29K aircraft that are going to be part of the carrier once it gets commissioned into the Navy as INS Vikramaditya.

Speaking to The Hindu during the recent Aero India 2009, the Director-General of the Russian Aircraft Corporation (RAC) MiG, Mikhail Aslanovich Pogosyan said naval pilots were presently being given flight training, with the training in theory just completed.

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1 comment:

  1. Pete24/2/09 01:22

    Too bad the Gorshkov won't be ready for flight operations for years. The pilots would have forgotten by then the carrier slills they've just acquired.

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