Rotation Completed
Szöveg: Maj. Krisztián Kovács | 2015. október 15. 9:00The dry facts can be stated in a single sentence: the third rotation of the Air Advisory Team deployed with Resolute Support Mission (RSM) has taken over its responsibilities in the Afghanistan area of operations.
After hundreds of flight hours and sharing and learning lessons, since January 2015 the mission has been operating in Kabul, and the present one is already the third rotation in the capital, where the Afghan colleagues are already greet the Hungarian servicemen as acquaintances. To the present day, they proudly wear the badges they received from the Hungarians as reminders of the effective joint work. Several of the trainees who started their aviation career in Shindand under the Hungarian instructors’ guidance are today helicopter command pilots who fly operational sorties and apply the acquired methods and procedures.
At the same time, the work going on since January is also reflected in the not so peaceful everyday life of Afghan rotary-wing aviation. During the free rocket live fire exercises, the Hungarian transport helicopter pilots mentor the Afghan aircrews that are already on quick reaction alert and fly live combat sorties using the newly acquired skills. The Hungarians are partnering American and Czech mentors in this joint work. Apart from gunnery instruction, the Hungarian experts provide the novice and restarting pilots with simulator training and conduct test flights with Mi–17 V5 helicopters after overhauls.
The members of the third rotation are continuing the work started by their countless predecessors, executing their tasks in the spirit of the “86s".
