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Tech/Engineering - Aerospace / Aviation / Space | | German term or phrase: einsatzfähig | From a technical specification for a fleet of replacement aircraft:
Piloten:
a) Falls ein Flottenmix (Ein und Doppelsitzer) angeboten wird:
Es ist eine Typeneinweisung für vollständig ausgebildete und *einsatzfähige* Fluglehrer erforderlich. |
|  Jon FedlerKudoZ activityQuestions: 1556 ( 6 open) ( 13 without valid answers) ( 62 closed without grading) Answers: 577
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| | deployable | Explanation:
This is the term usually referred to when (US) troops are ready for combat assignments
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Goldcoaster
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19 mins confidence:   peer agreement (net): +2 fit / fit to fly
Explanation:
This seems to be an established term, a pilot's "fitness to fly" -> http://www.experimentalaircraft.info/articles/human-factors-...
Another option for 'einsatzfähig' in this context might be -> 'being available', however, my choice is -> fitness to fly.
| MMUlr
Germany
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Native speaker of: German
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57 mins confidence: current
Explanation:
We use the term "currency" in the UK to indicate that a pilot's licence validations (certificate of experience), type ratings and medical certificates are up-to-date allowing him/her to fly the aircraft originally qualified for.
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On second reading I am, however, puzzled by the "für" in the German sentence. To me the sentence only makes sense if it is "durch": An instruction on type by a fully qualified and current instructor is required. I do not perceive a scenario where a "type rating for" an instructor would be required since it is the instructor who would sign the pilot off for the type rating. Only the context can indicate whether this preposition is an error or intended.
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2 hrs confidence:
1 day2 hrs confidence: eligible
Explanation:
To my understanding, a) neither 'deployable' nor 'operational' are suitable adjectives for human beings and b) this is not about teachers being fit to fly and ready to teach pilots, although the paragraph opens with the word "pilots".
As far as I understand the text, it says that in case a new set of airplanes is offered, in such case, the instructors (those who will teach the pilots) need to undergo some kind of instruction - at the condition that they already are fully eligible and fit to work.
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53 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +3 deployable
Explanation:
This is the term usually referred to when (US) troops are ready for combat assignments
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Note added at 2 days8 hrs (2009-11-09 15:45:27 GMT) Post-grading
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Thanks, Jonathan
| Goldcoaster
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