<story><title>EU safety agency suspends Pakistani airlines&apos; European authorisation</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pakistan-airlines-eu/eu-safety-agency-suspends-pakistani-airlines-european-authorisation-for-six-months-idUSKBN2412MT</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gruez</author><text>&amp;gt;Let&amp;#x27;s face it if the pilots weren&amp;#x27;t flying intercepts they&amp;#x27;d need to be flying training missions&lt;p&gt;Is this really the case? Are there training missions 24&amp;#x2F;7? If not, does flying an intercept cause a future training mission to be canceled?</text></item><item><author>VBprogrammer</author><text>Only on paper. Let&amp;#x27;s face it if the pilots weren&amp;#x27;t flying intercepts they&amp;#x27;d need to be flying training missions. Anyway, the sunk cost of buying, maintaining and operating fighter jets is so high that the marginal cost of a mission is a bit of a wash.</text></item><item><author>newsbinator</author><text>&amp;gt; triggering fighter intercepts&lt;p&gt;Also this costs tax money. Why spend the money on intercepts when you can ban the people causing the problems?</text></item><item><author>Jdam</author><text>If this doesn&amp;#x27;t apply to the UK as well, it is not enough. I would like to see a flyover ban as well, as PIA flies through the EU to the UK.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m following the aviation industry closely and there are plenty of reports every now and then where PIA flights don&amp;#x27;t respond on radio anymore, triggering fighter intercepts. It is assumed that those pilots are oftentimes either sleeping or just don&amp;#x27;t bother because of their ego, which was built in their former careers as military pilots.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t want to have PIA planes crashing into others or falling on my head.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ClumsyPilot</author><text>I dont think this nitpicking achieves anything, his overall point stands - we have hundreds of military jets and pilots with fuck all to do (fortunately). How many intercepts are there, one every few months? It makes no material difference against the backdrop of training and eqipment used in a regular business as usual.</text></comment>
<story><title>EU safety agency suspends Pakistani airlines&apos; European authorisation</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pakistan-airlines-eu/eu-safety-agency-suspends-pakistani-airlines-european-authorisation-for-six-months-idUSKBN2412MT</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gruez</author><text>&amp;gt;Let&amp;#x27;s face it if the pilots weren&amp;#x27;t flying intercepts they&amp;#x27;d need to be flying training missions&lt;p&gt;Is this really the case? Are there training missions 24&amp;#x2F;7? If not, does flying an intercept cause a future training mission to be canceled?</text></item><item><author>VBprogrammer</author><text>Only on paper. Let&amp;#x27;s face it if the pilots weren&amp;#x27;t flying intercepts they&amp;#x27;d need to be flying training missions. Anyway, the sunk cost of buying, maintaining and operating fighter jets is so high that the marginal cost of a mission is a bit of a wash.</text></item><item><author>newsbinator</author><text>&amp;gt; triggering fighter intercepts&lt;p&gt;Also this costs tax money. Why spend the money on intercepts when you can ban the people causing the problems?</text></item><item><author>Jdam</author><text>If this doesn&amp;#x27;t apply to the UK as well, it is not enough. I would like to see a flyover ban as well, as PIA flies through the EU to the UK.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m following the aviation industry closely and there are plenty of reports every now and then where PIA flights don&amp;#x27;t respond on radio anymore, triggering fighter intercepts. It is assumed that those pilots are oftentimes either sleeping or just don&amp;#x27;t bother because of their ego, which was built in their former careers as military pilots.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t want to have PIA planes crashing into others or falling on my head.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>VBprogrammer</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not sure how the military work when it comes to currency requirements. For private and commercial pilots it&amp;#x27;s certainly the case that they sometimes have to conduct flights (or at least, conduct specific procedures) purely for the sake of maintaining currency. I would be surprised if the same concept didn&amp;#x27;t apply broadly.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not quite as strong as because you flew that mission we are cancelling that training session, more because you flew that mission you don&amp;#x27;t need be booked out on a training session.</text></comment>