Flight schedule Payerne 2026

 

Yes, guests from France whould be a very welcomed thing again - but there are more chances for F35 Fightes in 2026 in preparation of the future flight activity. Who knows ... anyway, you waited a long time for the flight schedule 2026 and here it is 👍

Collision PC-7 Team with Camera, St. Moritz 2017: Former team leader awaits trial

After the collision of an (NC)PC-7 Turbo Trainer aircraft with an cable on Ski Worldcup February 17, 2017 at St. Moritz, military justice is ready for the trial against the former team leader. The pilot touching the cable and damaging aircraft and installations was already acquitted for.

Source: https://www.admin.ch/gov/de/start/dokumentation/medienmitteilungen.msg-id-79349.html

Aviateurs suisses - new film by Lionel Charlet

Lionel Charlet makes very nice films and I specially like his style with some monumental glimpses of mother nature in and inbetween the pictures.

Take your seat and popcorn - and enjoy 👍

https://vimeo.com/412351845

ProAero JULA'19 - Youth camp of swiss aeroclub organisation

Some impressions of my participation (as leader of an french group) on the youth camp near St. Moritz

Helping the aviation interested teenagers to build aircraft models, missiles, balloons and further more in company of many experts. And yes, some interesting visitors where also there - and an airshow !

Join us: www.jula-proaero.ch

Evaluation NKF - Mission Super Hornet - Arrival, Media- and Spotterday and Departure

With the arrival of two Super Hornets and an KDC-10 as support aircraft, the second candidate began it's evaluation in Payerne Avril 29, 2019. Unfortunally the two Fighters lost there squadron insignas for the trip to Switzerland.

This time also normally civil spotters where informed about the guests - there interest was mainly the KDC-10 ofcourse.

The Nightflight mission was also very hot - never ending afterburner 😍

Very good point made - sending a female pilot is quite normal in the USN, in Switzerland on military jets very seldom.

Swiss Hornet Display Team training week schedule 2019

Weekend approaches and with it the begin of this seasons training week of our Swiss Hornet Display pilot Nicolas 'VINCENT' Rossier in his 3rd year.

Training in mid altitude will begin Monday, from Wednesday on low altitude training already:

Lundi les entraînements sont prévus à 10:00 et 14:45 au-dessus de la base de Payerne: entraînements des figures individuelles à moyenne altitude. Mardi probablement basse altitude à 10:00 et 15:00.

Hornet Display training this week (25-29.03.2019) over Payerne airbase will be : Tuesday 10h00 & 15h00 medium altitude Wednesday 10h00 & 15h00 low altitude Thursday 09h45 & 15h00 low altitude Friday 08h40 medium & 10h20 low altitude See you there 

No Display Training 27/28th of March !

Good News for tomorrow Friday:

Tomorrow Friday 2 trainings planned : 

08h40 medium altitude

10h20 probably first low altitude for this year😁

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New week, more fun ;)

Dés lundi, les entraînements de démonstration à basse altitude du Hornet Solo Display vont continuer au-dessus de Payerne:

Lundi 8.4 à 10h & 15h15. 

Mardi 9.4 à 10h & 15h15. 

Vendredi 12.4 à 14h. 

Les horaires des entraînements peuvent être adaptés à tout moment sans préavis.

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#swissairforce

Demain mardi 9.4 deux entraînements du Swiss Hornet Display Team au-dessus de la base de Payerne:
10:00 Full show (programme beau temps, 3D)
15:15 Flat Show (programme mauvais temps, à plat)

Demain vendredi 12.4 à 13h30 (⚠️ nouveau timing): entraînement du Swiss Hornet Display Team au-dessus de Payerne pour la «Journée des Parents de l’école de recrue d’aviation».

Dernier entraînement avant les vols de validation du 18.4.

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Next week, Thursday, the Patrouille Suisse training course starts in Emmen. Team 2019 is looking forward to a great season! ------------------ Programm Trainingskurs (p. 2): https://buff.ly/2YoAY14

German Stallions Mountain Training

Also this year the German Air Force is based multiple weeks in Switzerland for Mountain training with CH53 - this and next week out of Alpnach. Next week without CH-53 but with the new NH90 !

Soon you can also see some strange aircraft above Switzerland - L39 Albatros flights are planned out of Sion (March 22-24th) and Emmen (August 16-18th, 2019). Booking via migflug.ch

Patrouille Suisse schedule 2019

For all the lovers of those red-white acrobats of the sky - to your agendas ;)

January picture in the Aero-Revue calendar

Switzerland's Aero-Club official publication has chosen two pictures by me for there calendar 2019 - enjoy ;)

http://www.aeroclub.ch

This month's picture taken at balloon festival Chateau d'Oex, 2019 edition january 26th 'till february 03 !

50 years of the Aero L-39 Albatros

Maybe the half of actual military jet pilots had trained on this little jet - today 50 years ago was the first flight at Vodochody !

My first real encounter was Air'94 airshow in Buochs (Stans) with the retirement of our famous Hawker Hunter. Albatros and western counterpart BAe Hawk each had a demo.

Two years later I was already steering those beauties (from the backseat, and only some minutes each flight) with the famous russian display team ! Great memories and flights, repeated the following years too.

Just a little flight - RIO Ecuvillens, 1994

This time you can travel quite a lot of years into the past - my first flight in an Boeing Stearman was made out of Ecuvillens due one of those fabulous RIO's (Rencontre Internationale des Oldtimers). I helped with the parking organisation as 'Bénevoles' and enjoyed this little tour around the Gruyères area.

The star of the event was the Dassault Flamant, after the Mirage 2000 demo and the famous Patrouille de France a year before a much more rare bird to see in Switzerland. Film was expensive and camera all manual, but soon I was buying my first own camera back then, an Minolta Dynax 700si with lenses (kit) up to 300mm for the Shows in Ambri, Buochs and Langenthal in the autumn of 1994.

 

If the actual US President will ever know about this place, he whould be travel each weekend to switzerland ...

The end of the Gruyères lake and a view in direction my home with the 'Guggershörnli' in the background: