MastanKhan
Junior Member
I do not know about this pilot's specific situation, but some air forces take pilots out of leading edge aircraft platforms once they reach a certain age.
So it might be as simple as that. That the Indians only have younger pilots on the Su-30 MKIs and this guy is old enough that he was put into a less expensive platform. In other countries older pilots are put into transport aircraft even.
Once you get over 30 years old your reflexes start giving in and sometimes you even lose vision. So that's one of the reasons.
Usually you don't see people aged 40 and older on fighter aircraft.
Hi,
No air force down grades pilots without any reason---they always are graded up if the performance is good---.
Then on top of that---his father was a retd air vice marshall---.
Name one country that flies modern aircraft and downgrades pilots to lesser aircraft without reason and whose father is an ex air vice marshall..