Completed the instructional phase provided for by the agreement between the Army and the Air Force, eleven pilots of the Army Aviation (AVES) who have obtained the military helicopter pilot license issued by the Arma Azzurra.
(by Mario Galati) At the time of Covid-19 in Italy as in the rest of the world, our way of living, working and above all of relating. The precautionary measures put in place also affected the workplaces where an attempt was made to reduce the physical presence of employees to a minimum through the institution of "smart working" he was born in "agile work". Measures which, on the one hand, have made it possible to reduce the probability of contagion, on the other have considerably slowed down the response of the various public administrations in favor of citizens. In the private sector, on the other hand, there was a sharp decline in production levels in reference to the pre-Covid-19 years.
An encouraging surprise. Scrolling through the news on the institutional web pages of the armed and police forces it emerges, with astonishing evidence, that this particular world of institutions does not seem to have suffered any particularly impacting effects on their abilities even in the presence of rigorous containment measures implemented inside the barracks. Unchanged missions outside the national borders, insured missions at home, joint national and foreign training carried out without any limitation, insured educational activity. A world where with the necessary organizational revisions it has been possible to guarantee the same operational and training output as in previous years.
In this regard, a news published yesterday on the website of the Air Force jumped to the eyes: "Aeronautics, Frosinone Helicopter School, five other pilots of the Italian Army patented". In the news it is reported that in addition to six pilots of the Italian Army, in 2020 sixteen pilots of the Air Force, four of the Finance Guard, four of the Fire fighters, four of theArms of the Carabinieri, a pilot of the port authorities and a foreign pilot, for a total of 36 patents delivering in 2020, a result, specifies the Air Force, which confirms the numbers of 2019, despite the limitations due to Covid-19.
A concrete demonstration of the very high organizational capacity of our armed forces even in the presence of emergency difficulties never faced before.
Another element that emerges, not secondary, is the innate predisposition of the Defense to create a system, in a moment that is not exactly rosy for the Italian economy. In this regard, to highlight this spirit, a technical agreement signed by the Army and Air Force on 29 November 2019 provided, in the pre-Covid-19 period, that 11 pilots of theArmy aviation - POULTRY - obtained the Military License for Helicopter Pilots - BMPE - at the 72nd Wing of the Air Force, located at the Frosinone airport.
The technical agreement kicked off the synergy in standardized training activities for the achievement of the BMPE in favor of AVES attendees, in harmony with the Defense programmatic lines aimed at continuous improvement in the field of training and the contextual optimization of resources.
To train the AVES pilots, the Air Force, the only armed force responsible for issuing the Military Helicopter Pilot License at national level, through its instructors, has operated in constant cooperation with the Army, whose personnel have been assigned on a mission to the 72nd Wing with an aliquot of RH-206 helicopters from the Army Aviation Training Center (CAAE).
Attendees, after passing the theoretical phase of the course and starting flight training starting from spring 2020, they have completed over 1.000 flight hours overall on the aforementioned RH-206 helicopter.
A summary of what is described also emerges from the words of Col. Davide Cipelletti, Commander of the 72nd Wing of the Air Force, published on the armed force website: "Thanks to the constant cooperation between the two Armed Forces, making the appropriate adjustments to the operating activities e despite all the limitations imposed by the epidemiological emergency, the terms of the agreement were respected by patenting the 11 visitors considerably ahead of schedule."