The Technical Agreement EI – AM for the training of new Specialists of the Italian Army was signed at the 72nd Air Force Wing of the Italian Air Force
In recent days, the Commander of the Air Force of the Army (AVES) General of Division Andrea Di Stasio and the Chief of Staff of the Command of the A.M./3rd R.A. Schools, Brigadier General of the Air Force, Luigi Casali, delegated by their respective Armed Forces, They have signed a Technical Agreement between Italian Army ed Italian Air Force for the year 2022.
The Agreement will ensure the initiation of a joint training process through which Air Force flight instructors – belonging to the 72nd Squadron in Frosinone – will qualify Italian Army Specialty Instructors (“Qualified Instructor Course”), allowing their future deployment within the initial training of E.I. personnel.
The agreement also provides that a batch of RH206C helicopters from E.I., as soon as they become available, will be deployed to the 72nd Flight of Frosinone, to be used in the training of Specialists Instructors and aspiring pilots of the EI. Exceptionally, only the first two Specialists Instructors of the Army will be trained on TH-500 helicopters of the Air Force.
Specifically, the use of the RH-206C EI aircraft by the A.M. and the collaboration between the Pilots Instructors of the Air Force, the authority responsible for issuing the Military Helicopter Pilot Certificate, and the Specialists Instructors of the A.V.E.S. will be guaranteed and structured through standardized and coordinated training modalities among the parties.
In these areas, the AM and EI synergies continue in training and educational activities on rotary-wing aircraft for the acquisition of the Military Helicopter Pilot Certificate (BMPE).
The 72nd Squadron of Frosinone, the only basic training school in the field of rotary wings in Italy, is the unit that trains pilots. pilots of helicopter of the Air Force, of the other Armed Forces and Armed Bodies of the State, as well as foreign visitors. The inter-agency and inter-forces synergy developed in the field of training at the Frosinone Helicopter School is part of the continuous improvement of training and the simultaneous optimization of resources.
