Originally Posted by
kalia960
In addition to landings, pilots in India bank steeply and change height fast.
I was told that this is because they are all former military pilots whose flight training consisted primarily of landing and taking off from aircraft carriers under hypothetical hostile fire.
Please tell us how many operational aircraft carriers Indian Navy has!
The reason given sounds like an argument from urban legend. There was a time, most pilots were ex IAF. That's no longer true. The Navy has far fewer pilots than the IAF does.Also, my belief was, please corect me if I am wrong, that militray transport pilots are the mones who made it into commercial aviation. I have not heard of any military transport planes landing on an aircraft carrier nor do they perfomr the "tricks" you are talking about.