Flight Activities of Combat Helicopter Crews: Trained Even For Most Complex Tasks
Monday, 3.3.2025 | Training
At the Morava Military Airfield in Lađevci and its immediate vicinity, members of the 714th Anti-Tank Helicopter Squadron, 98th Air Force Brigade, are conducting regular flight training with Mi-35 combat helicopters.
In accordance with the plan, helicopter group leaders and accompanying personnel are now practicing the tactics, techniques and procedures necessary to prepare and execute a group flight in low areas. In parallel with pilot training, the technical staff is also being trained, with technicians of all specialties going through the already elaborated procedures at the stand.
The flight and technical staff are also supposed to undergo combat training, during which live firing against ground targets is carried out, which will round off this training cycle in the unit for providing air support of Army forces in defence and attack.
Deputy Commander of the 714th Anti-Tank Helicopter Squadron, Major Branko Stanković, appeals to young people willing to join them and become military pilots, saying that doing this job is a privilege.
— Flying is a love that either comes or doesn’t come. The one who has it, he wants to be in the air all his life. In my 24 years of service, I have not heard of anyone saying he does not want to fly, or avoiding being in the flight plan for that day — emphasized Major Stanković.
The pilot from the 714th Helicopter Squadron, Lieutenant Đorđe Čorbić, has invited young people who see themselves as pilots to apply to the current competition for SAF reserve aviation officer training, noting that the job of a military pilot is responsible and very beautiful, because every flight brings a new kind of experience.
— I was motivated to become a pilot by my love of heights, I have always loved it. It wasn’t easy, but it was really worth all the effort I put in. When we all fly together I feel great, if there are more helicopters in the air it’s an indescribable feeling I can’t compare to any other I’ve experienced — explains Lieutenant Čorbić.
Young men and women willing to fly combat helicopters or other aircraft of the Serbian Armed Forces, who have completed four years of university studies and are turning 27 this year, can apply to a public advertisement for reserve aviation officer training, which is open until March 31 this year.
