European Air Refuelling Training 2017

[JaboG32 Spotter]

The annual European Air Refueling Training (EART) hosted by European Air Transport Command (EATC) took place in co-operation with Frisian Flag exercise over the North Sea, for two weeks crews from Germany, France and Italy come together to train of plan and execute complex aerial refueling missions in a real-life scenario .
The last Operations shown that the ability of Aerial-Refueling is one of the most important assets. So the EART was launched in 2014 to give the crews the best preparation for future missions.Seen on the Pictures below are the German Air Force Airbus Aircraft A310 MRTT 10+24 and the Aeronautica Militare Boeing KC-767A MM62228 14-03 of the 8° Gruppo di Volo 14° Stormo getting prepared for the Second Mission.

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_MG_0277_6_5 by B.A.P Bavarian.Aviation.Photonews, auf Flickr

After the 10+24 was refueled, it was time for us to go on board COBO 42. After the Take of in Eindhoven, we headed out over the North Sea, to the ESSO named refueling sector, our first customers of today's Frisian Flag mission where Two Eurofighters of the Tactical Fighter Wing 31 "Boelcke"

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Air to Air Refueling by B.A.P Bavarian.Aviation.Photonews, auf Flickr

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Docking the tank boom into the basket requires highest concentration and precision by the Pilot! For this reason the air-fueling is regularly trained due daily missions!

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Short after the two Eurofighters leaves the Tanker, our next receivers join up. Two Panavia Tornado GR4 s of the Royal Air Force stationed at RAF Marham !

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Air to Air Refueling by B.A.P Bavarian.Aviation.Photonews, auf Flickr

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Tornado GR4 _AAR by B.A.P Bavarian.Aviation.Photonews, auf Flickr

After the two Tornado's get their fuel and departed to Leeuwarden we headed back to Eindhoven Air Base.I would like to thank the following people and Team of the Koninklijke Luchtmacht for their outstanding work to making this possible !
Col. Elanor Boekholt-O'Sullivan (Eindhoven Base Commander) ,Col. Andrea Massucci (EART Director), Air Cmdr Peter Round (EDA), Maj. Martin Bakker (EART Project Officer), Capt. Marco de Simone (AMI, EATC-Public Affairs) , MSgt. Felix Scherll (Luftwaffe, EATC-Public Affairs)

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Cheers Robin !

[Jakub.Zurek]

Very nice photos! Number 9 for me.

[JaboG32 Spotter]

Very nice photos! Number 9 for me.

Thanks !