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2000/01 - Pilot section moves to Tamworth

2000

The RSAF’s Air Grading Centre moved to Tamworth, Australia, for better airspace, weather, and training continuity.

The Flying Training School’s Air Grading Centre moved its operations from Seletar to Tamworth, Australia, in 2000. Training was conducted by RSAF instructors while British Aerospace Flight Training provided and maintained the training facilities and four CT4B trainers.

Group portrait of RSAF trainees in flight suits posed outside near trees.

The first batch of students who arrived at Tamworth in January 2000.

“Besides the ability to operate with less constraints in airspace, there will be greater continuity for the trainee pilots in their flying training, since weather is not a major factor in Perth. Operating side by side with their Australian counterpart, our Flying Training School would be able to better gauge the way we train our pilots.”

MG Raymund Ng, Chief of Air Force, 2000 during his send-off speech to the Flying Training School detachment

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