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Royal Netherlands Air Force’s Pilots will train in Italy on Finmeccanica
- Alenia Aermacchi’s jets in service with the Italian Air Force,
thanks to the agreement that has been signed by the Chiefs of Staff of
the two Air Forces in Milan last week that envisages the detachment of
an instructor and two student pilots of the Royal Netherlands Air Force,
to be stationed at ItAF's Lecca-Galatina AFB Flight School. |
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is the two countries’ intention that this first group of pilots
represent the starting point for a fruitful cooperation to be extended
for years to come.
The
instructor and the two students will follow the standard training programmes
of the Italian military pilots. The training system is already acknowledged
and appreciated by other countries, which have sent their personnel to
train at the Lecce-Galatina school. In fact, the new training programme, recently reconfigured to catch up with operational and technological advances, thanks to the entry in service of the new Finmeccanica-Alenia’s M-346 trainers (called T-346 by the Italian Air Force), is evaluated with great interest by several air forces that plan to operate new-generation aircraft. The M-346 trainer jet is powered by two Honeywell F124 engines, and uses a digital flight control system by Teleavio/Marconi in collaboration with BAE Systems, Dowty and Microtecnica. Alenia's M-346 can also perform combat missions thanks to its nine external store stations, capable of mounting up to 3,000 kilograms of external payload. |
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