Morning with an upturned nose for the inhabitants of the island of Pantelleria, where today, as evidence of the renewed capacity as a logistic outpost in the heart of the Mediterranean Airport of the Air Force detachment, have laid the wheels, for the first time all together , five new Aermacchi T-346 aircraft powered by the 212 ° group of the 61 ° Stormo di Galatina.
L'out & backlasted only a few hours, it allowed both four young pilots, destined for the latest generation of fighter aircraft, to perfect their training through planning, navigation and landing and take-off procedures on a military airport with certainly peculiar characteristics, and to the personnel of the Airport Detachment to test practically the many operational and logistical aspects necessary to provide assistance to so many fighter aircraft at the same time.
A training success on both sides.
Il Pantelleria Airport detachment assures the assistance to national and international military aircrafts in transit or transit, guarantees the meteorological service on the island and the operation of the Military Airport open to civil traffic and maintains the efficiency of the Ente, of considerable strategic and architectural value.
Which Forward Logistic Support In addition, the European Detachment EUNAVFOR MED is a real inter-force and international outpost for the Community forces engaged in the Mediterranean in order to avoid tragedies at sea resulting from trafficking in human beings.
