putnanja wrote:Video of 1st LCA landing on INS Vikrant ....
Received your report/comment about your posts being removed from the Vikrant thread and Naval Aviation threads. I certainly empathize with your concerns and let me address them.
1) First off, let me state that it was I who removed/deleted those posts, but preserved the post you made in the Naval Tejas thread.
2) It was solely done to keep discussions in one particular thread and not in multiple threads. A number of posts - from other posters - were merged (from the Vikrant and Naval aviation threads) into the Naval Tejas thread for this sole purpose.
3) Sometimes valuable info is split between multiple threads and readers will miss info that could have been collated/preserved in one thread. This causes another issue where posters will ask the same question that was already answered in another thread. So while I do understand this info needs to be preserved, the underlying issue is which thread should everything be collected in?
4) In this case, the best option was to move all the discussions to the Naval Tejas thread, as the primary discussion is about the aircraft in question. The secondary, but equally important, issue is the vessel the aircraft landed on. It is important to give visibility to the appropriate threads, as they get lost in the successive pages of the forum and most posters rarely ever visit them.
5) With regards to the issue of preservation and future reference, you will see that the first post of the Naval Tejas thread contains all the info that is required for a newbie (or even an oldie!) to refer to, when required i.e. when the Tejas first landed on the Vikrant + video of the event, when the Tejas first landed on the Vikramaditya + video of the event, the first flight of each of the two prototypes, etc.
Hope this answers your question. If you have any further questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to ask. Thank You.