Wing Commanders Paranjal Singh and Manish Kumar from the Indian Air Force’s 45th squadron, the Flying Daggers, will test-fly India’s light combat aircraft Tejas for its final operational clearance.Confirming this, one of the test pilots from the National Flight Test Centre (NTFC) told Deccan Herald that test engineer Kumar will be part of the two-member team that has already joined the NTFC team and began training.
The IAF team will ascertain the operational capabilities for inducting Tejas into the Air Force and fly the limited series production (LSP-7 & 
platforms due for delivery in March.
platforms due for delivery in March.Among other things, these pilots will check for the angle of attack, which is cleared for 20 currently although the NTFC has tested for 22. The angle of attack is expected to reach 28-30 by the time Tejas attains the final operational clearance (FOC).
The flight control system, weapons system and air-to-air fuelling will be some of the other things that will go through rigorous testing before the FOC.
“Tejas is a pilots’ aircraft. The handling quality is as good as the Mirage platform if not better, and the control system is awesome,” said NTFC chief test pilot Rohit Varma.
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