CAE MULTI CREW HOUSES THE FRENCH AIR FORCE FLIGHT SCHOOL

Italian and French Multi-Engine Flight Schools compare notes to improve together From 03 to 06 July, at the Multi Crew Crew Training Centre (CAE MC) in Pratica di Mare (insert link http://www.aeronautica.difesa.it/organizzazione/REPARTI/addestrativi/Pagine/CentroAddestramentoEquipaggi-MultiCrew.aspxa “Squadron Exchange” took place during which the Multi Crew Training Centre hosted the “École d'Aviation de Transport” from Avord, the equivalent French multi-engine flight school. The French delegation, consisting of flight instructors, student pilots and technicians, deployed to Pratica di Mare airport with two EMBRAER 121 XINGU aircraft and had the opportunity to compare their respective ground and flight training and educational programmes with their Italian colleagues. In particular, the French delegation was able to learn about the training pathway for Italian military pilots destined for conventional lines. This pathway, structured within the Italian Air Force Schools Command in order to raise the quality of training through traceable projects focused on the needs of the Armed Force, is carried out initially on the T-2006 aircraft at the 70th Wing in Latina and completed on the P-180 Avanti I at the Multi Crew Training Centre in Pratica di Mare. This fruitful moment of exchange will further help to consolidate the internationalisation pathways undertaken and to promote, through requirements of cost-effectiveness and efficiency, the utmost standardisation and excellence of all Armed Force training and educational processes. The Multi Crew Training Centre reports to the Air Force Schools Command / 3rd Air Region and is tasked with the advanced training of student pilots of the Italian Air Force and other Armed Forces or State Armed Corps in accordance with the most modern principles of the “Multi Crew” concept for fixed-wing aircraft, recognised both in the international military field and in civil aviation, combining the requirements of military flight with the need to operate in a heterogeneous airspace in terms of flight types, populated by commercial aircraft and regulated by civil standards.