Zaragoza, April 17.The European Tactical Air Transport Center (ETAC), headquartered in Zaragoza, concluded the third edition of the ETAP-I course this week, during which two pilots—one Spanish and one Italian—graduated as new Tactical Instructor Pilots.

This is the first edition of this course held in Spain, which took place from April 14 to 17 at the facilities of Wing 31 and its A400M simulator.

The course is designed to train tactical air transport instructors, thereby contributing to the expansion of the multinational roster of instructor pilots assigned to support ETAC’s various crew training and education programs.

The newly graduated pilots will fly in the cockpit alongside future ETAC course students as part of the crew, bringing tremendous flexibility to the mission, as they can modify their profile in real time and the scenarios being flown (re-tasking), while providing an additional critical layer of safety.

The program combines academic training, mission planning, briefings, and debriefings, as well as synthetic simulator missions in complex tactical scenarios involving air-to-air, surface-to-air, and electronic warfare threats.

With this new collaboration that Spain brings to the project, ETAC reinforces its role as a European center of excellence for advanced training of air transport crews and for promoting interoperability among allied air forces