Replies to post #12438 on Tactical Air Defense Services, Inc.(fka TADF)

[blazers]

So we aquire more planes as the company grows... and get the bigger contracts. Hey Walmart started out with one store in BFE, now look at em.

[SugarCoat]

ok, so a few. I take that as 3 at a time. Are you assuming these are pilots, since you said 'air force"?

I assume these students are pilots so we don't have to teach them the basics. These won't be newbies.

You say the training will come in 2 parts, the aircraft and tactics. I see this as 2 separate classes. We are talking 'flight' school.

So let's take them one at a time. Assuming that they are pilots, getting them checked out in a new plane will take a day ... maybe two. This is a single engine prop. These guys will already be familier with using avionics, preflight checks, stalls, landings, etc. All they will have to do is demonstrate it in the new plane. It's not that big of a deal and it will not take 1 month of class time and 1 month of flight time to figure out. If I want to go from flying a cessna to a piper, it will take me one short flight with an instructor to get certified in the new plane. No ground school, just 1-3 hours in the air. Going from a Cessna to a Tobago, which has retractable gear, took 1 hour of flight time and no ground school. So I really don't understand your 1 MONTH of flight training. Hell, getting a new license from scratch only takes 20 hrs of ground school and 100 hrs of flight. And that is starting from ZERO knowledge.

So with one plane I see them able to crank through some students.

and saying "you break it, you buy it" is not very professional? please, you have insurance.

and the clauses to protect your ass? that's what contracts are for ... to protect both sides of the deal.

If I was trying to get contracts with one SuperT, I would be concerned about having only a single airplane.

If you are training pilots for some airforce, you will not train one, you will train at least a few.

The training is in two phases: aircraft familiarization, and tactics. These are about 1 month each. More class time than flight time. You keep one pilot in the air while the others are getting class trained.

It is possible to do it with one plane, however in those cases, getting another airplane is not an issue if there is a problem.

With one plane and no readily available backup, its like saying to your customer, "if you break it, you pay for it" which is not very professional.

When you sign that contract, you must perform. If the plane becomes an issue, there is a big problem with the contract.

And if you put the clauses in there to protect your (TADF) a$$, then the contract is not going to look very good to the customer.