Originally Posted by
scrapdog
Amazing how very wrong you are. The PW or the GE series engines of late on F-16's are extremely reliable. The days of continuous engine problems on the F-16 are many years old. The GE models are amazingly stable - much more so than the PW -100 engines on the F-15C's.
Better engines but still lots of birds and FOD out there waiting to be ingested. I doubt the SFO requirements are being relaxed.