Beja: Mayor asks “urgency” in deciding pilot school in BA11.
The president of Beja Chamber was satisfied with the possible creation of a training school for fighter pilots at the air base in the city and asked “urgency” the decision on the implementation of the project.
According to the online edition of the Journal News, quoting the socialist Paulo Arsenio words, the Portuguese agency, “Beja Chamber looks with optimism and satisfaction for this possibility that is on the table, is another, but expected to be more than come true”.
It is a project that “appeals to the Beja House”, because you can “enrich the economic life of the city”, “but it is not fully closed and, that is why, we will be prudent in treating this possibility”, creased, stressing that the municipality “I would very much like to come true”.
The Minister of National Defence, João Gomes Cravinho, It said on Wednesday it is studying the possibility of setting up a training school for jet aircraft pilots at Air Base (BA) n.º 11, in Beja, through a consortium with “several investors” and private companies.
According to the minister, to materialize the project, the school will serve to train pilots of the Portuguese Air Force (FAP) and other air forces and solve the issue of training of the pilots of F-16 aircraft Portuguese, currently attending courses in the United States of America.
According to a source from the Ministry of National Defense, walk there is no timetable for moving forward with the creation of the school and are being evaluated various aspects of the project.
The materialize the project, the school will “substantially enhance the ability aeronautical” the BA11, “enhancing it with one of the largest schools of military aviation pilots in Europe”, and “center on Beja pilot air forces of several countries and it will internationalize the city”, Paul stressed Arsenic.
The mayor said the Beja House “You know very little about the hypothetical school facility” the BA11 and asked “for some time” an audience with the Minister of National Defense for “better understand the scope” from the project.
However, he stressed, the city knows that the school facility in BA11 “It is to be seriously considered” and it was “due” dela that FAP “reproved” the design of the pilot school that the British company Skyborne Aviation Limited planned to install in Beja airport.
“From this point of view, Beja Chamber has some urgency in which the state is set on a yes or no” the school facility in BA11.
“If you have been unfeasible at least one school from private pilots to operate at the airport in Beja due to the possibility of installing school [training aircraft pilots jet] na BA11, then you have to be clearly defined if this school comes or not”, He defended.
If the school is installed in BA11, “alternatives in Beja airport will be other and not the aviation pilots schools”, He defended.
On the other hand, the possibility “out foiled” and the school is not installed in BA11, it is necessary “open again the possibility of private aviation pilot schools settle in Beja airport”, He stressed the mayor.
