TSAMTO, October 1. The pilots of the Northern Fleet's ship-based fighter aviation regiment on the Su-33 have completed a flight training program in Crimea at the ground-based engineering and technical aviation complex (NITKA), simulating the flight deck of a heavy aircraft carrier.
Under the guidance of an experienced instructor, Colonel Pavel Podguzov (one of the students of the legendary pilot Hero of Russia Timur Apakidze) and the commander of the aviation regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Vyacheslav Lunin, the training flight program was fully completed.
Severomorets flew the Su-25UTG training aircraft and the Su-33 combat aircraft.
The preparation lasted more than a month. During this time, seven pilots, including five young pilots of carrier-based aviation, were able to prepare for landing on the deck of the aircraft carrier. All of them took off from the ship's springboard on a Su-33 fighter jet and independently landed on a ground simulator with an aircraft finisher cable hook.
Currently, the flight and technical staff of the ship's fighter aviation regiment is preparing to relocate from the Crimea to the Murmansk region to a permanent place of service. At the training simulator in Saki, they will be replaced by pilots of a separate ship-based fighter aviation regiment for the MiG-29K, the press service of the Northern Fleet reports.
