First Polish F-16 pilots training

[tony6]

Photos taken in a National Guard base at Tucson:







The whole gallery:
http://www.wp.mil.pl/galeria_wiecej....&idgaleria=586

[Granit]

Good to see these pictures but why there is no young pilots?

Anyway thx for posting

[joedirt]

probably because the f-16 is the best plane they have and those who get to fly it are the vets with the most flight time and skill.

[chidozie]

God I Love That Plane!!

[gemjarnar]

if im not mistaken they train the vets so they can be instructors back home.

[Korath]

if im not mistaken they train the vets so they can be instructors back home.

as far as I know, that is the idea.

[perdurabo]

Good to see these pictures but why there is no young pilots?

Anyway thx for posting

because that are instructors they will be teaching to fly f-16 back in home so we need best of the best not some young pistols but guys that have cold blood and enormous expirience.

[wholagun]

where are the crazy new helmets that we got to go with our F16s.

[DanteXavier]

Makes sense that the dudes are older. If I were the polish government, I wouldn't send some hot blooded and young 21 year olds over to take control of your newest most advanced multi million dollar piece of equipment.

How many F-16s is poland planning to acquire anyway?

[Granit]

Poland is going to get 48 F-16 Block 52+

[Bulabash]

Well that will be a big improvement for CAS after those Polish Sukhois we used to get here in Belgium during CAS exercises (allways good for a laugh though).
I suspect that their English will have improved too then, so much the better.

[Switek]

evrything is ok, great... nice pix and so on.... but one thing is humiliatinig. Why Polish pilots are not allowed to wear Polish ranks and insygnia??? . US friends try to keep political corectness to avoid Polish jokes by banning Polisg flags on shoulders?

[Hrvoje]

Nice pics! Anyone have pics from production?

[Hellfish]

evrything is ok, great... nice pix and so on.... but one thing is humiliatinig. Why Polish pilots are not allowed to wear Polish ranks and insygnia??? . US friends try to keep political corectness to avoid Polish jokes by banning Polisg flags on shoulders?

Probably for ID on American bases. Often foreign personnel on US bases wear their national rank and American rank, so people know who they're talking to. I'd be willing to bet that somewhere on their uniform is their Polish rank - unless its a limitation of the US flight suits or something.