By Olayemi Esan
The Nigerian Air Force, Friday winged six helicopter Pilots after completing their training in United Kingdom.
The winging was held at the NAF Headquarters, Abuja.
Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal Oladayo Amao, Chief of Policy and Plans, Nigerian Air Force (NAF), AVM Romanus Ekeh and Chief of Training and Operations, AVM James Gwani, among others were at the winging event.
The pilots winged today are Fg Offr TE Adebayo and 5 others who recently completed their basic flying training to become helicopter pilots.
The pilots were trained at Draken Helicopter Academy formerly known as Cobhams Aviation Services in the United Kingdom which also trains helicopter pilots for the UK Armed Forces and other Armed forces like Australia and Saudi Arabia amongst others.
The flying training course the officers have successfully completed the Basic Helicopter Flying Course at the Draken Helicopter Academy in the United Kingdom from 27 Feb 20 to 20 June 21. The training was conducted in 3 phases; Basic Rotary Wing Phase, Operational Rotary Wing Phase and Conversion Phase. The offrs flew an average of 75 hours on the
Cabri-G2 helicopter and 16 hours on the Flight Simulator Training Device in the Basic Rotary Wing Phase.
At the end of this phase which focused on basic helicopter flying techniques, the offrs carried out a License skills Test and were issued with a Helicopter Private Pilot License.
They then proceeded to the operational rotary wing phase which covered combat search with rescue patterns, tactical formation, reversionary night flying & night vision googles, night medium & low-level navigation amongst others.
