[Bilge_Rat]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Bilge Rat,

you need to read the report again yourself. Especially the tables and the description of the columns.

again, you seem to have limited knowledge of how aircraft development works.

Table 3-1 for example does not list limits that have been set up for trianign purposes, as you claim wrongly. It lists techncial deficits or limits established for operation, then lists the effects of these deficits (that'S what it is aboiut: deficits!) for the training effort of the trainee who canot use them, and finally lists the to be expected negative effect in any combat employment. The logic of that table is: this had to be forbidden, that currently is broken -> trainee cannot use it and cannot learn it -> specific handicap in a real combat employment resulting.

you are again wrong. Do you not understand the term "operating limitations"?

Table 1-1 lists items of the training program as it was designed to be done - and compares that to the deficits and limitations of real training, where tasks could not be accomplished or completed due to technical deficits and regulations that again reflect deficits of the hardware, and are not features of graded difficulty levels. Trainees cannot train certain items of the regular training list.

only because of operating restrictions, again perfectly normal for an aircraft which has not even finished all of its flight tests.

Table 2-1 lists serious technical risks as identified by the Air Force.

Agreed. But this is a very short list of relatively minor issues, again not uncommon for an aircraft at this stage of its development.