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At the invitation made to the Municipal Corporation of the City Sewer, by Chief Colonel of the Air Base and director of the Military School of Parachuting "Mendez Parada", Fernando Goy Martin, to visit the facilities of the same, in the morning today it has carried out, with the mayor of our city, Joaquin Buendia forward.
The members of the Municipal Corporation, all local groups being represented, were received by Colonel Goy, as well as the respective controls it.
Upon completion Sewer Mayor Joaquin Buendia, Colonel gave him a replica of the facade of our City, while Colonel handed him a reproduction of Aviocar (T12).
Air Base Sewer, located here since 1947, is composed of four military units: the Military School of Parachuting "Mendez Parada" Squadron of Sappers Paratroopers Air Force (EZAPAC), the Acrobatic Patrol parachuting Air Force (PAPE) and 721 Squadron Air Force.
Around seven hundred military coexist in the day-to-day basis, including 50 civil servants also.
Colonel unveiled the operation of the Air Base and as is the work carried all military units that are the same and the importance of it for training our troops and even military forces of other countries.
Sewer Air Base account to the teaching and practice of military parachuting with facilities that provide a reference for schools skydiving, being among the most advanced in the world.
Giving a good account of the importance of schools in the Base through simulators that have been visited, also including the launch tower and simulator descent for automatic opening, allowing a perfect training for troops should paratrooper start your preparation.
These facilities have enabled automatic opening raise safety jumpers and reduce the number of casualties for obtaining title paratrooper hunter.
From here Simulator Advanced Air Traffic Control (SIMFAC), only one of its kind in Spain.
The simulator allows the recreation of virtually any combat environment (urban, open area, night, etc.) and in different weather conditions on a concave screen of more than five meters in height and angle of 180 degrees, allowing a large realism in the exercises.
You can also play a mapping of over 9,000 square kilometers on which you can place different types of vehicles and weapons from fighters to insurgents armed with rocket-propelled grenades, passing tanks and even ships.
Then the PARASIM, simulator training and teaching manual was visited military parachuting.
This simulator consists of two elements: the virtual skydiving simulator (PARASIM) and freefall simulator (wind tunnel).
The PARASIM, virtual reality simulator, recreates the flight with a parachute, flat or round, from leaving the aircraft to the ground in addition to supporting the simulation of all types of emergencies with various scenarios and can be used for ten paratroopers at the same time.
Already in the wind tunnel several paratroopers held an exhibition of training they receive from teachers and monitors in it.
The tunnel has a capacity for four jumpers simultaneously, can increase security paratrooper simulating free fall under the same conditions as if they jump from an airplane, allowing practice maneuvers and actual movements in a controlled environment making full use of time freefall to power focus all attention exclusively on learning, controlling the position of the body, the twists and developments under the tutelage of professor in real time and avoiding risks.
The Municipal Corporation also had the opportunity to know the functioning of Aviocar (T12), visit it and check it, and know the Historical Museum of the Base through warrant officer, Angel Garcia and end with a picture of all before the monument located in the historic aircraft Junkers Ju 52.
Recall that the town of Sewell and more specifically the City Sewer, in plenary on 28 April 1997, agreed to grant the Gold Medal and Tie Honor of the City Sewer, making delivery of these distinctions on 18 May that same year, taking advantage of the 50th anniversary of the Air Base Sewer.
On March 22, 1998, the City pays tribute to the Air Base Squadron of Sappers Paratroopers Air Force (EZAPAC), with delivery of the new Script (flag) of the Squadron, for the important humanitarian work carried out in the Foreign.
And everyone is aware of the relationship that we have with the Air Base Sewer, especially coming to our streets in two important dates each year, on the one hand in the celebration of acts of Tribute to the Flag and the Fallen for Spain, with the hoisting of flag in the Adolfo Suarez square in a ceremony that this year we have carried out for the eighth consecutive year.
And the other big event is the Race Air Base Sewer, which will hold the next year its fourth edition, on Sunday 19 February, the streets of our city.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Alcantarilla
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