As a fighter guy, I'd call a surge when you fly the same plane 4 or more
times
a day

Pretty narrow view of life you have there...


BUFDRVR

Agreed totally but that is the business. There are basically just trwo tyoes
aof airplanes, Fighrters and targets. :)

I don't think the same maintenance concept for bot is the right approach. The
new concept solves AF personnel manning, and training problems and clearly it
works well for heavies. The historical facts are that it doesn't do much for
aircrew compentency in the fighter business and does not produce as high a
sortie generation rate either. Well trained and staffed maintenance crews
don't do you much good when you don't have planes to fly.