Military Aeronautics: online call for pilots and officers

(To Anita Fiaschetti)
30/06/17

"My blue adventure starts in the Aeronautical Academy": Who knows how many young people these days will have this thought in mind. For many a dream to be realized, for others a passion of life. On the other hand the sky fascinates, as well as the aerial dimension and the technology used and being able to become an airplane pilot or an officer of the Aeronautical Engineering Department is an ambitious goal.

37 young people are given this opportunity through the single call for competitions, based on qualifications and exams, published in the Official Gazette - 4ª ssn48. The announcement provides for the admission to the Air Force of 10 Supplemental Pilot Students (AUPC) to the 124 ° air piloting course with firm obligation of 12 years and the admission of 27 aggregates Officers in Stationary Stables (AUFP), auxiliaries of the normal role and of the special role, at the 9 ° AUFP course.

"This is an interesting novelty that sees with a single competition announcement the selection processes of the Officers in Prefixed and of the Complement Official Officers. Two categories of officers with different roles, positions and career prospects, but united, in the selection process, by the only key to access the Air Force: the will power of the candidate who often turns out to be the real key to success"Said the commander of the Air Force Academy, Nicola Lanza de Cristoforis, general of the army.

Two different categories of officers. On the one hand, the APC, to all effects and purposes a military pilot who for twelve years, depending on the needs of the Armed Forces, can be assigned to different flight lines. A role that is expressed on aircraft conducted with professionalism and spirit of service, in any condition of time, day or night, for operational missions at home and abroad. On the other, officers with different tasks: from the Health Corps to the Commissariat, from the Genius to the Weapons of the Aeronautical Weapon.

"The differences between the two categories are substantial and it is important that the candidates understand them well ", continued the commander of the Aeronautical Academy. "The entire selection activity is, as always, aimed at searching for the potentially most suitable people to best address the often burdensome service commitments, to which they will be called to make their own contribution, working in team with others and for the good of the country, in Aeronautica Militare At the end of the selection process, we will welcome the winners in the Aeronautical Academy where they will start their blue adventure, where we will develop their ethics and leadership skills and, through targeted training, we will stimulate their propensity to the result, to the improvement and to innovation, placing excellence as a value in the sign of our institute's mission which is precisely to choose, train and inspire exemplary commanders and professionals determined to serve our team with excellence and dedication country".

General Lanza de Cristoforis turned to them, to future commanders and professionals, urging them to get involved and wishing him good luck for participating in the competition: "Look the best of you in the Aeronautical Academy!".

La application form in the competition, the model of which is published in https://concorsi.difesa.it, it must be completed and submitted exclusively online by July 27 2017.