With the federal army, a partial recording of four Eurofighers of the styric tentpad is checked at a different location. The background: In the fall, the “Kroon” revealed that the solid days was not ready for days. There is a lack of air traffic controllers. And that will not change so quickly: in the previous year, only one applicant was suitable!
In November 2024 this information caused excitement: the military flight operations of the Eurofighter AM Friegerhorst in Zeltweg were not possible for several days. In fact, the 14 jets must be ready at any time for the alarm to defend the airspace over Austria. With unknown planes or in the case of loss of communication, you usually start within a few minutes. That happens about 50 times a year. “So for the first time in November in November in more than 50 years, there was not a single Eurofighter stand -By,” said the “Krone” at that time.
The background of the problem: there would be enough pilots and jets, but a lack of staff for air traffic controllers and fire brigade. The result: the federal army is considering moving a lot of Eurofighter from Zeltweg to Hörsching near Linz or Klagenfurt.
Only nine applicants in 2024
The fact that the lack of air traffic controller cannot be remedied so quickly shows a current request for the request of Minister of Defense Klaudia Tanner (ÖVP): according to this there were only nine applicants at the Bundesher in the previous year, one person was one person suitable . The rest failed for psychological reasons, that is a quota of 89 percent!
A glance at the figures since 2020 shows that the failure percentage has been moved several times in this area. However, the number of applicants is falling dramatically. In 2020 there were approximately 28. The entry capacity at Austro Control is 6600 euros gross (without allowances).
The training period for military air traffic controllers is about six years (only three years before the military academy are included). By the way, according to Tanner it is not possible to use other air traffic controllers in the case of bottlenecks in Zeltweg. The “tense personnel situation” stands in the way.
As a result, an alloy of parts of the Eurofighter is now being prepared. Until now they have operated on the Vogler Air Base in Linz-Hörsching a total of 40 days: for the first time for a short period of 2013, then 2022. In the previous year it was necessary in various long weekends, more than more than 30 to dawn.
Source: Krone
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