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French Air Force Officially Welcomes Pilatus PC-21
Citat:On Tuesday, October 2, 2018, General Philippe Lavigne, Chief of Staff of the Air Force (CEMAA), traveled to Air Base 709 "Commandant Menard" at Cognac-Châteaubernard to mark the service introduction of the Air Force’s new training aircraft: the Pilatus PC-21.
With this acquisition, France becomes the 2nd European nation after Switzerland to receive this multi-faceted aircraft and opens a new chapter in the history of its flight schools. In the long term, these new air force training planes will replace the 30 Epsilon TBs presently operated at Cognac as well as the Alphajets based at Tours.
Thanks to its maneuvering qualities (-4, +8G) and its latest-generation avionics, the PC-21 will allow the modernization of how fighter crews are trained. The functionalities of the PC-21 system, such as on-board simulation and the quality of its simulator, allow for a profound overhaul of the training curriculum, towards a more representative program of current operations, streamlined and allowing the acquisition of basic control and the learning of a modern system (from pilotage to management of a weapons system).
A total of 17 Pilatus PC-21 single-engine turboprop aircraft and their simulators will be delivered to the Air Force early in 2019.
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