The “Experimental European Multinational Type Training Course C-27J” course has concluded”
The course concluded on September 19th. “Experimental European Multinational Type Training course C-27J”, which began on June 11 at the International Training Center of the 46th Air Brigade of Pisa.
The participants, pilots from the Bulgarian and Lithuanian Air Forces, initially underwent initial training on the ground using the infrastructure of the International Training Center of the 46th Air Brigade.
The training program was structured into a five-week period of theoretical lessons aimed at learning the aircraft’s systems and using the simulator. (OFT – Operational Flight Trainer) and then carry out the 19 sorties in the simulator in simulation mode “full motion”. Thanks to the skills acquired during this first phase of training, the pilots will continue their training in flight at the units of their respective nations.
The course represents the conclusion of a period of preparation and coordination that began, at the suggestion and supervision of the’European Defence Agency (EDA), already in the year 2016; since then, the manuals and training courses necessary for the implementation of a course that would bring the benefits of the know-how of the Air Force in favor of the other foreign Armed Forces operating in the C-27J.
As part of the same project, it is planned that the other European Nations that are members of the C27J AHWG Cat B Program That is, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Romania and Slovakia regularly use the infrastructure and instructor personnel of the ITC of the 46th Air Brigade to pursue their training programs based on raising the standards of safety and operational effectiveness.
The 46th Air Brigade It is a Department that depends on Air Squad Command through the Command of Mobility and Support Forces, which operates with its transport aircraft C-130J and C-27J A wide range of missions in the field of air transport, both of a purely military nature – with participation in all Operational Theatres involving the presence of the Italian Armed Forces – and in the civilian sector, in collaboration with other state agencies, as was the case during the Covid-19 emergency, or for humanitarian aid, evacuations of populations in difficulty or interventions in the event of natural disasters.
The International Training Centre (ITC) It arises from the need to internationalize the historical Crew Training Centre of the Flight Department of the 46th Air Brigade. In line with the strategic directives of Forza Armata, the ITC was structured to be able to provide foreign Armed Forces operating on C-130J and C-27J with its wealth of experience and professionalism.
