Spanish flight instructors move to the 70 ° Flock

09/01/14

On Monday 30 December, the two Spanish flight instructors, Captain Antonio Poncela Sacho and Captain Manuel Navarro Mora, took turns at the Pontine flight school.

Colonel Salvatore Romeo, Commander of the 70 ° Stormo, received in his office the two officers of Ejército del Aire for a greeting.

Captain Sacho, who has been at the Pontine flight school since July 2011, at the end of the qualification course with the Aermacchi-T.260B aircraft was assigned to the 207 ° Flight Group as a flight instructor, reaching about four hundred hours instructional flights. 

To replace him is Captain Mora, coming from the General Academy of the Spanish Aire (AGA), who will face the same iter-training.

In this circumstance, the Colonnello Romeo, has given to the Captain Poncela the Crest of the Department expressing him esteem and gratitude for the professionalism and the dedication shown in his period to the "Comani". To Captain Navarro the welcome greeting and best wishes for the new commitment he is about to face.

From the 2005 the Air Force has stipulated an agreement with the Ejército dell'Aire, for the exchange of flight instructor personnel, in order to improve the cohesion, the technical knowledge and the doctrine of use for the benefit of the two air forces. 

At the Pontine Flight School, piloting courses have been held for students of the Italian Air Force, other Armed Forces and Armed Forces of the State and some foreign countries for about sixty years.

Source: 70 ° Stormo - Latina - Lgt. Paolo Pezone