Training Course of the PC-7 Team next week

 Last chance also for the PC-7 Display Team to train this year - each day two displays above Dübendorf base:

Have a good flightweek and stay safe dear Team !

new 2020 brochure of PC-7 Team

 

With a little hope we will see the PC-7 Team in action this year - if not this new brochure will help over our loss ....

-> the brochure can be downloaded here (pdf)

WEF 2020 - Air Policy above Davos

In 2020, the armed forces will once again support the civilian authorities in the canton of Graubünden in carrying out security tasks in connection with the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF). Parliament approved the deployment of a maximum of 5,000 soldiers on these civil affairs support operations from 2019 until 2021. The 2020 WEF meeting will be held from 17 to 27 January.


Main base for the combat ready jets is Payerne LSMP (1st ALT is LSMM, 2nd ALT is LSMS) again and the 25 nautical miles flight restrictions above Davos are on the following dates:

January 17th, 2020 from 1300-1700h LT (training)
January 20th from 0800h LT continuosly 'till January 25th, 1700 LT (hot)

Some Pilatus (NC)PC-7 will be flying out of Samedan airport during training day and the hot mission.

More informations: https://www.vtg.admin.ch/de/aktuell/einsaetze-und-operationen/sse/wef.html

Some impressions of Air Policy from other years 

Crossing Switzerland in the Vampire - historic video of swiss television

'Karussel' was the name of the saturday evening show, long before youtube and netflix. With the heavy camera equipment in the nose, the Vampire flew three routes through switzerland - accompagnied by the Patrouille Suisse (still on Hunter) above the Gotthard and other aircrafts like Mirage and F-5 Tiger II elsewhere.

Enjoy ;)

Airbus A310 ZERO-G and Zeppelin NT back in Dübendorf

Tomorrow Monday 11th 'till Thursday 14th, the Swiss SkyLab Foundation leads another campaign with the Airbus A310 ZERO-G and the Zeppelin NT out of Dübendorf airbase.

Airbus A310 ZERO-G

The research platform parabolic flights has been an integral part of all research in zero gravity for decades. The utilisation concept of the Swiss Parabolic Flights - shared use by universities, companies and private individuals - is unique in the whole of Europe to date and offers a significant competitive advantage for Switzerland: The parabolic flight campaigns provide science and industry with cost-effective access to research and R&D projects in microgravity. Two parabolic flight campaigns with a total of 12 research projects have already been successfully carried out with the A310 ZERO-G from Duebendorf Airport. In June 2018, the 3rd Swiss Parabolic Flight Campaign will once again be launched into zero gravity.

Zeppelin NT

The research platform parabolic flights has been an integral part of all research in zero gravity for decades. The utilisation concept of the Swiss Parabolic Flights - shared use by universities, companies and private individuals - is unique in the whole of Europe to date and offers a significant competitive advantage for Switzerland: The parabolic flight campaigns provide science and industry with cost-effective access to research and R&D projects in microgravity. Two parabolic flight campaigns with a total of 12 research projects have already been successfully carried out with the A310 ZERO-G from Duebendorf Airport. In June 2018, the 3rd Swiss Parabolic Flight Campaign will once again be launched into zero gravity.


More infos: UZH Space Hub