AK01 wrote:Tankers are up, so i guess rumours about cancellation for the rest of the week proved to be wrong, or have been solved one way or another.
Can you guys please stop suggesting that Frisian Flag cannot go ahead without the Swiss Hornets? It is absolute nonsense to think that the entire exercise would have to be cancelled if less than 10% of the participating aircraft go home.
The fact that the Swiss had to leave early (for very legitimate reasons) was known well in advance by the FF organisers, and they acknowledged that it would not be a serious problem. There will be no replacing aircraft, so rumours about Rafales coming to Leeuwarden are also false.
Just be glad that the Hornets flew in 75% of the FF missions anyway. They will not be able to participate in any other major international exercise this year, so seeing them fly in FF was a bonus already. They will not be taking part in the NATO Tiger Meet at Mont-de-Marsan either.
The Swiss are very enthusiastic about their participation in the exercise, so we might see them return to Frisian Flag somewhere in the future.
Last attempt and then I will give up. We can expect 10x F-16. 8x for flying within FF and 2 spares for FF. Are you really not reading any other source than Scramble? Please check your pix of all previous years and you will see that not all of the aircraft flown in the morning are flying in the afternoon, but the number of aircraft is the same. So in the afternoon are flying the morning mission spares.
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