Patented 12 new riders at 70 ° Form

16/06/15

Last Friday, in the presence of the religious, civil and military authorities of the province of Latina and the authorities of the Embassy of Kuwait in Rome, the graduation ceremony for the first 70 piloting courses.

During the ceremony the airplane pilot badges were handed to five Kuwait Air Force patrons, six of the Italian Army Aviation who carried out the piloting course on the Alenia Aermacchi T-260B aircraft and a military pilot badge to a visitor to the Guardia di Finanza, who completed the training process on the Piaggio P166-DP1 aircraft.

Next, it was pinned to the chest of a man special aviator, Lorenzo Ferraro, a "patch", bearing his name and surname, with the turreted eagle and the letter "I", normally applied on flight suits of instructor pilots.

The child, the 27 last May, accompanied by his parents and by dr. Angelo De Blasio, former head of the Oncohematology Department of the Santa Maria Goretti Hospital in Latina, made a visit to the airport, where he viewed the main activities of the Department and, at the controls of the Alenia Aermacchi T-260B simulator together with the maj. pilot Alfredo Visciglio, he experienced the thrill of making a real flight mission, putting into practice what he learned during the day.

During the ceremony, promotional films were screened by the Air Force relating to the Department's activities, which illustrated how each Pilot, from those who, 24 hours on 24, ensure the air defense of our skies, to those involved in rescue plane, transport of patients and organs, as well as for humanitarian purposes in every corner of the world to end up with Italian cosmonauts, such as Captain Samantha Cristoforetti, recently returned from the International Space Station, carried out their first flight course at the 70 ° Stormo .

In one of his speeches, the col. Piccolomini recalled “to date there are more than 13.000 patents issued by the Pontine school and about 450.000 the hours of flight performed.

Dozens fell among the flight crews, students and instructors, who sacrificed themselves during the execution of training flight sorties.

Flying has always been a man's ambition, but it is complex and complicated, as the meeting point, the transition between what is perceived as immanent and the alchemy of the transcendent, a jumble of emotions and values.

"Teaching how to fly is an even more difficult job, which involves an accessory commitment, to mitigate the inherent dangers, that is to exalt the safety of the operations, while technical and skill is being poured".

During his speech, the prefect of Latina dott. Pierluigi Faloni said "today's day has given us the values of discipline, sacrifice and professionalism, which the Air Force daily puts on the field in favor of the community", continued Dr. Faloni "the 70 ° Stormo was a surprising discovery for me, you gave me great emotions, I entered this airport with my arms, I feel like coming out with wings ...".

The 70 ° Stormo is a flight school of the Italian Air Force based at the airport of Latina, employed by the 3 Air Force School Command ^ Bari Air Region. Its mission is, from 1939, to carry out the basic flight training, on propeller-driven aircraft, and on-the-fly selection of all future military pilots of the Air Force, other Armed Forces, Armed Corps of the State and foreign countries accessing piloting courses.

The Flight Schools of the Italian Air Force, engaged in a complex process of growth and modernization, provide a training offer of absolute quality, such as to represent a point of reference in flight training in the international context.