For the fifth time since its genesis in 2014, the Spanish Air Force successfully hosted the European Advanced Airlift Tactics Training Course (EAATTC) at their airbase in Zaragoza.
The course, EAATTC 16-4, was held from 11 to 23 September 2016. Five participating crews from the Czech Republic, Spain, Poland, Rumania and Belgium followed and graduated from this demanding course. Together with the support of a multinational team of tactical instructors, intelligence analysts and operational support officers and experts from the European Air Transport Command, the Spanish Air force was able to plan and execute 43 advanced training sorties with a total of 108 flight hours flown by a mixture of airlift assets: ES–C130, FR- C160, CZ-C295, PL-C295, RO-C27J and BE-130).
The course falls under the remit of the European Air Transport Fleet (EATF) initiative, which is a Category A programme of the EDA designed to improve airlift fleet capacity and interoperability among twenty of the European Union’s Member States. The next EATF event will be the European Air Transport Symposium which will be held in Florence, Italy over the period 5-7 October 2016.
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