India To Fly Tejas LSP-5 Soon

Bengaluru: India’s fifth limited-series production (LSP-5) Tejas Light Combat Aircraft is ready for its first flight.
Indian sources confirm to AVIATION WEEK that a flight readiness review meeting was held recently and the LSP-5 will fly “soon,” weather permitting. LSP-4 had its first flight in June.
“Two more high-speed taxi trials are remaining and after that we will be ready for the first flight,” says a senior official associated with the program. “It will have internal cockpit lighting for enabling night flying, with all corrections being done. We are also testing a new communication set, similar to that on the Dhruv chopper. This would again ensure commonality of inventory in the country.”
LSP-5 will be the first to test the Tejas’ auto-pilot mode. “The autopilot is indigenously developed by the national control law team of National Aerospace Laboratories,” the official says.
29/10/10 Anantha Krishnan M/Aviation Week

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