PC-7 team
| PC-7 team | |
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| Country: |
 Switzerland
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| Currently used aircraft type: | Pilatus PC-7 |
| Sponsor: | Swiss Air Force |
| Base airfield: | Dübendorf military airfield |
| Founding: | 1989 |
| Colours: | Red White |
| Weblink: | www.pc7-team.ch |
The PC-7 team is an aerobatic team of the Swiss Air Force .
history
The PC-7 team was founded on the 75th anniversary of the Swiss Air Force (1989). The team has been flying the Pilatus PC-7 Turbo Trainer since it was founded . Since October 2006, the Air Force has had the first converted PC-7s with the New Cockpit (NCPC-7), which the PC-7 team has been using since 2007. Alongside the Patrouille Suisse, the team is the second aerobatic team of the Swiss Air Force. The pilots are military pilots of the professional aviation corps who fly on the F / A-18 Hornet . Although the Swiss Air Force has adapted its radio communication to the NATO standard and is using the Brevity Code as the standard, the Patrouille Suisse and the PC-7 team continue to use many of the terms of the Bambini Code for their flight demonstrations . Communication between the pilots of the PC-7 team takes place on the frequency 375.450 MHz, which is outside of the usual air traffic . The home base of the PC team is the Dübendorf and Locarno military airfield .
Since 2014, the aircraft can be equipped with a smoke system developed and financed by the Pilatus company; the first demonstration with smoke generators took place on August 1, 2014 for the roll-out of the Pilatus PC-24 at Buochs airfield . There are currently 7 smoke systems that can be installed in the PC-7's overhead locker. The diesel-oil mixture is injected into the right exhaust of the PC-7.
At large air shows such as the RIAT or Air14 , the PC-7 team often flies in the opening of the flight demonstration with the Patrouille Suisse, the F / A-18 Hornet Solo Display or the Super Puma Display Team in a joint formation.
The PC-7 team offered a unique flight demonstration on September 7, 2014 at Air14 at the Payerne military airfield , when they presented a flight demonstration together with Patrouille Suisse with a total of 15 aircraft. In 2015 the PC-7 team flew its flight demonstration in Morgarten accompanied by the school of the Swiss Army Game .
During a flight demonstration on the occasion of the Alpine World Ski Championships 2017 in St. Moritz on February 17, 2017, a machine that was flying too low severed the cable of a rope camera , so that the camera fell from a great height into the target area of the giant slalom. The torn cable hit the chairlift that transports the athletes to the start. The chairlift was then stopped automatically. No one was injured, and all pilots were able to land their planes safely on the nearby Samedan airfield . The second round of the giant slalom had to be postponed by half an hour.
The team
The PC-7 team consists of the following people plus the ground crew (the first name and function are listed):
| Nickname | position | Surname |
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| Commander | Commander | Colonel Lt. Daniel Stämpfli "Stampa" |
| Turbo Uno | leader | Capt Cyril Johner "Johnny" |
| Turbo Due | Right wing | Capt Benjamin Matthey-De-L'Endroit "Daffy" |
| Turbo Tre | Left wing | Capt Matthias Grossen "Nemo" |
| Turbo Quattro | slot | Capt Andreas Menk "Menkster" |
| Turbo Cinque | left outer wing | Capt Matthew Leavy "Murphy" |
| Turbo Sexi | Right outer wing | Capt Alain Von Büren "Fondü" |
| Turbo Sette | 2. Solo | Capt Marius Krüsi "Crus" |
| Turbo Otto | 1. Solo | Capt Mario Thöni "Thöma" |
| Turbo Nove | 2. Lead | Capt Mario Schwarz "Blacky" |
| PR1 | Speaker | Capt Philippe Hertig "Philippe" |
| PR2 | Speaker | Spec Of Cédric Spörri "Cedi" |
| Save | Save pilot |
Awards
- King Hussein Memorial Sword , Royal Air Tattoo UK, 2013
See also
literature
- Urs Mattle, Katsuhiko Tokunaga: PC-7 team backstage. AS-Verlag, Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3-906055-07-7 .
- Karin Münger, Max Ungricht: Swissness: 50 years Patrouille suisse, 25 years PC-7 Team. Cockpit publishing house, Belp 2014, ISBN 978-3-906562-43-8 . (Four languages German / French / English / Italian).
Web links
- PC-7 team website
- PC-7 team on the Swiss Air Force website
- Gallery of the PC-7 team
Individual evidence
- ↑ Insider (Patrouille Suisse Fanclub Zeitung) 2014, page 21
- ^ Army advertising film for Morgarten 2015
- ↑ Alpine Ski World Cup: plane tears down cable car camera on www.spiegel.de, February 17, 2017
- ↑ Ski World Cup: Airplane tears off cable of a transmission camera during Ski World Cup , Westfalenpost , February 17, 2017
- ↑ PC-7 Team Brochure 2018
- ↑ «King Hussein Memorial Sword» for the best flight demonstration in Fairford (GB) in 2013. » Swiss Air Force brochure . PC-7 Team 2016, p. 6 ( Memento from August 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ).