Joint Croatian-Czech Air Advisory Team training completed

This is a joint training of Croatian and Czech helicopter crews and aircraft maintenance technicians as part of the pre-deployment training and preparation of members who will be sent to the ISAF operation in Afghanistan as  Air Advisory Team that will train helicopter squadron of the Afghan Air Force by the NATO standards and procedures at Kabul KAIA airport.

After one-week training of flight crews on simulators in Ostrava in the Czech Republic, flight training was conducted on the Mi-171 Sh helicopters. Training support was provided by helicopter squadron of the 93^rd Air Force Base with Bell-206 B helicopters. The course was jointly designed by the Croatian and Czech teams with advisory support of the institutions and units of the United States. As such, it has been accepted and included as part of the NATO “Smart Defence” initiative, and yielded interest in other NATO and partner countries, which was witnessed by the presence of numerous diplomatic and military delegations on presentation day held on May 10 in Zemunik Barracks.