Accademia Aeronautica

The Air Force Academy in Pozzuoli ( Italian: Accademia Aeronautica di Pozzuoli ) is a located in Naples military facility that trains the cadets of the Italian Air Force.

Training directions

Student pilots graduate from tertiary education that is focused on the military aviation sector. In addition, find the basic flying training take place in Latina. If this is successfully completed, followed by the jet training in Lecce or at flight schools in the United States or Canada. Helicopter pilots are trained in Frosinone, transport pilots in Practica di Mare, near Rome or Pisa.

Individual selected graduates and members of the Genio Aeronautico ( Air Force engineers ) study after that air and space engineering, civil engineering or electrical engineering at the University of Naples. Make members of the Corpo di Commissariato Aeronautico (administrative area of the Air Force ) at the University a Masters in Law, for aspiring doctors of medicine is the training a total of six years. Officer candidates this study directions are usually trained for two years at the Air Force Academy and then promoted to lieutenant, then they complete another three or four years of study at the University of Naples. All other officers complete their training at the Istituto di Scienze Militari Aeronautiche in Florence, which has the 2005 Master's program " Military aviation sciences " set up in collaboration with the University of Florence.

Officer candidates who have already acquired the engineering, chemistry, physics, mathematics, law, economics or medicine in the field a university degree ( Master's or more), just get a shorter military specific training before they start their normal service. This also applies to aircrew on time.

History

After the Italian Air Force in 1923 set up as independent strike force directed to the Air Force Academy until 1926 under the auspices of the Naval Academy in Livorno. In December 1926 we moved into parts of the Royal Palace of Caserta. Here, the Regia Aeronautica was formed from their officers until 1943. From 10 August to 10 September 1943, the Academy was the Collegio Aeronautico under in Forli, then turned to the operation temporarily entirely. Under the government of Badoglio the Aeronautica Italiana Cobelligerante could take officer training at the Collegio Navale in Brindisi again. There the Naval Academy came under.

From November 1945 to December 1961, the Air Force Academy was located on the island of Nisida in the Gulf of Naples. With the construction of its own, purpose-specific training facilities on a headland in the Bay of Pozzuoli the Italian Air Force could definitely end the period of temporary restorations. Within sight of the campus-like facilities of the Air Force Academy of Pozzuoli is Nisida and the other islands of the Gulf of Naples.