Eastern flank
New Delhi, Feb. 2 -- Over the last years the TLP calendar included normally 4 Flying Courses a year, but as commander Acebes looks back, it became an almost re-occurring event that during the year one of the FC's had to be cancelled. Main reason for this, excluding the Covid pandemic timeframe, lays within the increased presence of nations to rotate with their fighter aircraft in ongoing deployments to strengthen the eastern flank of NATO's territory in Europe. As these additional tasks remain to continue, it was inevitable according to commander Acebes, to adjust the TLP FC planning accordingly and resulted into a new realistic schedule of 3 FC's a year. The current planning for 2026 now includes a first FC in the January-February time fra...
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