Roaring engines in Zaragoza

(BRUXELLES2) The first European air transport training (EATT2012) will take place from 4 to 15 June in Zaragoza (Spain). Following somewhat the model of what has been done in the area of ​​helicopter pilot training, as part of the pooling and sharing initiative, it aims to improve crew knowledge in the face of different threats or different situations: advanced planning missions, personnel and cargo drops, tactical navigation and threat reactions, tactical air-land operations with tactical recoveries; assault landings), engines running or off, short field landings, night flights and operations.

Means and crews from different countries will be present: 4 Belgian, Spanish, French and Dutch C130s, 1 German Transall, 2 Czech and Spanish Casa C-295s. Each of the aircraft comes with two crews.