Combined Joint Personnel Recovery Standardization Course 2011

By Piet Luijken

This Combined Joint Personnel Recovery Standardisation Course 2011 was the first edition organised at the Tactical Leadership Programme (TLP) facilities at Albacete, Spain. EAG nations have long seen the need for a “Combined Joint Personnel Recovery Standardisation Course”. This two week course is aimed at all helicopter and fixed wing aircrew that want to gain experience in Joint Personnel Recovery missions. It is a two week course that is composed out of four days of theory and six days of live missions, one mission a day. Each mission will be thoroughly briefed, planned and debriefed. In this way, the course will allow all pilots, whatever their individual background and experience to learn and to gain proficiency. At the end of the course all pilots should be able to take up the responsibilities of the Rescue Mission Commander.

The objectives are to enhance knowledge and proficiency required to plan and execute a PR mission in a non permissive, international environment, to impart knowledge and proficiency in working with European and NATO coalition partners, to enhance proficiency in flying within a PR task force as an element of a COMAO, working through operational documents and to enhance knowledge of the organisation and of the operation of a PR control center.

Combined Joint Personnel Recovery Standardisation Course 2011: 13-10-2011 till 28-10-2011 at Albacete, Spain