The First Days on the Exercise

The land force units commenced the training separately, while all the helicopters participating
in the exercise were flying in a single formation around the airspace to get to know the sites of
the air operations.

In what followed, Hungarian and Macedonian transport helicopters – the Macedonian one
flying under the escort of a Hungarian attack helicopter – conducted MEDEVAC practice
together with the personnel participating in the Deep Survival training.

In the morning of Thursday, September 6 a Hungarian attack helicopter escorted a
Macedonian and a Slovak transport helicopter on a mission to extract the survivors and
transport them to a site located at pre-set coordinates.

In the afternoon the Hungarian Special Forces were practicing safe descent (“Spice Rope"
technique) from the Hungarian Mi-17 hovering at an altitude of 15 meters. They will need this
capability on several occasions during the rest of the exercise.

Photo: 1LT Béla Papp

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