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  1. It is always nice to read positive things about my unit. After flying this aircraft for over 15 years, I think the strength of our unit is it\'s small size - with our 10 aircraft (at the end of the year it should be 11), we need to do all these nice missions like supporting our troops, training our para\'s, hauling stuff like any other nation, but everybody will do all the missions, giving us a broad view and large experience. Coupled with that we often operate in small detachments (typical 5 flying crew, 8/9 technicians and 3 cargo guys) which leads to people getting hands on experience in a lot of fields. The other side of this equation is that we need to train our crews far more ... A young pilot will have at least 750 hrs on type before he is being transferred to the left seat, and a further 500 more before he can act as captain. Our FE training starts with 6 months of ground technician training, before they even see the flight sim, allowing them to be selfsufficient for a lot of in the field repairs...
  2. It comes from the time when our unit was a scouting Sqn (WW II) - somehow that got translated as an Sioux scout and the emblem was born...
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