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Malaysians to sell their older model PC-7s to PAF
Topic Started: Dec 3 2010, 10:24 AM (1,370 Views)
israeli
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Malaysia to buy 12 more Pilatus PC-7 Mk IIs
By Greg Waldron
Flight International
November 30, 2010


Malaysia is likely to buy 12 additional Pilatus PC-7 Mk II primary trainers and could sell its early-model PC-7s to the Philippines.

A first batch of new PC-7 Mk IIs will probably be purchased after April 2011, when the country's new five-year budget - the Tenth Malaysia Plan - will come into effect, says an industry source.

"The problem with the current five-year plan is that most of the defence money was spent on armoured personnel carriers," says the source. "The air force definitely has a need for 12 PC-7 Mk IIs, but a decision is not likely until after April 2011." The service will split its planned purchase between two batches, the source says.

In April Malaysia decided to acquire 257 armoured personnel carriers for around $2.5 billion, according to media reports.

The Royal Malaysian Air Force operates 17 PC-7 Mk IIs out of an original fleet of 19 purchased in 2005, with two having been lost in accidents. It also has 31 early-model PC-7s that were acquired in the 1980s.

The source says the older aircraft could be refurbished and sold to the Philippine air force. The Philippines recently took delivery of four Alenia Aermacchi SF-260F primary trainers, with 14 more to follow in early 2011. It also has 25 older model SF-260s and six S-211 trainers, says Flightglobal's MiliCAS database.

The shortage of primary trainers in the Philippines has resulted in a training backlog of between 150 and 170 pilots.
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The PhilAF already operates and has the infrastructure to maintain the SF-260. Why purchase a new flying coffin such as the PC-7? Read the accident reports and compare them to the performance of the SF-260.
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Why can't the Malaysians sell those PC-7s to countries who are operating it instead of us wherein our PAF has adapted the SF260 for Training and COIN for decades.

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the pilatus pc-7 is basically the same class as the SF-260

PAF will just be wasting funds if it decides to but the Malaysian 2nd-hand aircraft

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PC-9 engine: Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-62 turboprop, 857 kW
T-6 Texan II engine: Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-68 turboprop, 1,100 shp (820 kW)

Pilatus PC-7 engine Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-25A turboprop, 410 kW
The Aermacchi SF260 engine: Allison 250-B17D Turboprop 420 hp (310 kW) to 715 hp (533 kW)

Nothing much of diff w/ PC-7 and SF260.

With my previous blogs on other discussions, a good replacement or augment with the SF260 is PC-9 or Texan II. Though, the Embraer Super Tucano is a good one too for the COIN role with all their advance avionics.
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I wish Brazillia can sell their Super Tucanos to the Philippine Air Force...
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