End of an era - final flights of Swiss Air Force's Pilatus PC-9

After 34 years in duty by the Swiss Air Force, there last three Pilatus PC-9 made the final flights in the last couple of weeks. Our Air-to-Air Session was cancelled due fog, but we where happy to find an nice place on a hill in the Jura mountains ... Thank you @air-to-air.ch

Flight schedule Emmen 2021

Emmen is the second base publishing the planned activity for 2021 - now we wait for Swiss Air Force's mainbase Payerne to publish heres.

Like every year, Patrouille Suisse Training week will be in April, F-5 Tiger activity is the most during TK (Training Course) in dark blue. Please consider restrictions due COVID'19 when visiting the base.

Jan 04 Beginn Flugbetrieb 0830h
Feb 22 24. Stuckli Ballonfiesta (Verschiebedatum 28.02.), Sattel-Hochstuckli - Herrenboden (CH), !Termin unbestätigt!
Apr 05- 16 TK Patrouille Suisse, Emmen (CH)
Mai 06 Generalversammlung der Motorflugveteranen des AeS, Emmen - LSME (CH)
Jun 14-16 Hornet Flugbetrieb, Emmen - LSME (CH)
Jun 26-27 Zuger Seefest, Zug (CH)
Jul 10 StansAIRhorn, Stans (CH)
Jul 28- 23 Pistensperre EMM
Sep 04 25 Jahre Hunterverein Mollis, Mollis (Hangar U1 Haltengut) - LSMF (CH)
Okt 15-17 Air & Space Days Verkehrshaus Luzern, Luzern (CH) Air & Space Days
Dez 16 Ende Flugbetrieb um 1700h

Emergency Airworthiness Directives (EAD) for Pilatus training aircrafts

It began a few weeks ago with an 1st Emergency Airworthiness Directive for the Harley-type buckle assemblies in the seat harness of the ejection seat on Pilatus PC-21 training aircraft. French Air Force recognised a problem and informed Martin Baker/Pilatus and the respective governments:

Pilatus PC-21 is the latest turboprop-powered advanced military training aircraft and in use by the Air Forces of Australia (49), France (17), Jordan (12), Qatar (24), Saudi Arabia (55), Singapore (19), Spain (24, 1st delivery end of 2020; will replace mainly the CASA C-101 Aviojet, but will also take over advanced training which is currently carried out on the T-35 Pillan), Switzerland (8), United Arab Ermirates (25) and the United Kingdom (2 for advanced training in ETPS).

At this moment (December 23rd), there are all modern military training aircraft systems of Pilatus Aircraft Ltd listed with the same problem of requiring a specific inspection.