Stacy Johnson, Times Record News
Posted September 26, 2009 at 2:18 a.m.

Belgium will be reentering the Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training Program at
Sheppard’s 80th Flying Training Wing next year, and the business of training
NATO air warriors will continue as usual, according to ENJJPT steering
committee chairman Brig. Gen. Franco Marsiglia, commander of the Italian Air
Force Academy. The steering committee met this week at Sheppard to discuss
details of the multi-national undergraduate pilot training program.
“Next year we will have the reentry of the Belgium air force, and we are
very lucky because we will have more students and more European instructor
pilots,” Marsiglia said.
Marsiglia said the steering committee also focused on the new syllabus for
pilot training which includes the T-6 Texan II airframe, which replaced the
T-37 Tweet this past year for Phase 2 pilot training at the base.
“The main change was the new T-6 aircraft and the new syllabus, which is a
good syllabus for the junior pilots and there is a real increase in initial
operating capability,” Marsiglia said.
80th Flying Wing Commander Col. Kevin Schneider said the T-6 changeover
allowed for those increases in operating capability for the pilots.
“Part of the T-6 program (is) the simulators, so the students are receiving
higher fidelity ground-based training in the T-6 (simulators) than they were
in able to receive in the T-37,” Schneider said,
As a result, he said, students hitting the flightline in the T-6 are
observed as being steps ahead of the students going through the T-37’s,
because of that ground-based training.
“So, the net result is we’re able to do more with our students and provide
them with greater flying ability,” Schneider said.
He said the steering committee, where the 13 countries in the joint pilot
training program meet every six months, allows all the partner nations to
have input into the training at the program.
“Each and very nation has a say in the training here, and each and every
nation has a voice and each and every nation sends us their best, whether
instructor pilots or students,” Schneider said. “Every six months the
steering committee sits down and talks about things they would like to see
different in the program, and the reason that they bring these changes to
the table are the result of the experiences their pilots are seeing in
combat operations each and every day.”
He said the syllabus for the training program is constantly evolving.
“The bottom line is we train NATO air warriors today for tomorrow’s fight,”
Schneider said. “The world is evolving, air combat is evolving, the threat
is evolving and we have to continually adapt to changes in air power, to
changes in the threat and the changes in the environment each and every
day,” Schneider said.
Marsiglia said the support by the military and civilians for the joint pilot
training program is one of the reasons it has been so successful since its
inception in 1981.
“All the countries during the meeting say ‘Thank you very much’ to the
United States Air Force for continuous excellent support of the program.
That’s why we stay here in the USA; and in my opinion, this program will
continue in the future for a long time,” Marsiglia said. “An interesting
situation for European people is the social and community around the Air
Force, we are very lucky and very happy for the great, excellent and
spontaneous support by the Sheppard Military Affairs Committee, ENJJPT
sponsors and those in the communities of Wichita Falls, Burkburnett and Iowa
Park.”

Is het echt waar? Klopt dit?

Want anders zijn ze toch zo hard aan het pleiten voor een europese (niet-amerikaanse) militaire piloten training.

Het is toch nu AJeTS, belgie en frankrijk (soms studenten van duitsland, italie en spanje)

Mvg

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