Operation Poznan

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Objective of Operation Poznan​ The objective of Operation Poznan is to insure Pilots of the Royal Air Force and the Royal Land Forces are capable of flying their aircraft safely and efficiently. All members will be sent back through remedial training before proceeding through Polish Flight School. Aircraft that utilize weapons will be equipped with dummy bombs and training rounds when required. Missiles will not be loaded onto aircraft for fighter training. They will instead utilize dummy missiles to show the weight on the aircraft while required a five second radar lock to indicate an air kill.

Unit​	Personnel​	Vehicles​
1st Tactical Aviation Wing	30	5x PZL 130 Orlik; 5x PZL TS-11 Iskra
3rd Transport Aviation Wing	150	40x PZL W-3A Sokol; 15x PZL W-3W
1st Transport Aviation Wing	150	40x PZL W-3A Sokol; 15x Transall C-160D; 10x PZL M28 Skytruck
1st "Warsaw" Armoured Brigade	80	15x PZL W-3W(On Loan from Royal Air Force)
21st Podhale Rifles	40	10x PZL W-3A Sokol; 10x PZL W-3W(On Loan from Royal Special Forces)

 

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Phase I
Remedial Training

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Phase I will send the Pilots slated to participate in the training back to basic training to insure their physical fitness is up to the standards to fly aircraft. They will proceed through physical fitness tests, close combat drills, and firearms training before advancing to the end exercise of the Remedial Phase. This will simulate a aircraft crash landing in hostile territory. It is a multiday exercise starting in the Tatra Mountains. The recruits will be spread throughout the mountain side and give one days worth of food to last for the trip down the mountain. The prospective Pilots will be required to travel down the mountain, avoiding military officials and tourists. Enlisting the help of a civilian will result in immediate disqualification and losing their spot in the Pilot program. Once they reach the bottom of the mountain, they will perform various physically demanding tasks such as wounded carrying and treatment, obstacle courses, and live fire drills. At the end of the physical part of the exam, they will be given a test to outline the knowledge they were able to learn and retain despite malnourishment and sleep deprivation. After two days of rest, they will be given another exam to outline what they were able to learn and retain.

After Remedial Training, the Pilots will move onto Pre-Indoctrination Training.

 

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Phase II
Pre-Indoctrination Training

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At the end of the Remedial Training, the Pilots are transported to Radom Air Base to begin Pre-Indoctrination training. This part of the training is held almost entirely within the classrooms housed at the training air base in Radom. The first set of training is the study of aerodynamics and the effects with the different kinds of aircraft. The next set of classes would be aviation physiology. It would help explain the physical and mental effects of flight on crewmembers and passengers. It also explains the effects of high speed, high gravitational force maneuvers on the body. The third class would be the different engines used by the air craft they would be flying. This would cover turbo-prop engines to the more powerful jet turbine engines. The fourth class in Phase II would be navigation. This would cover navigating from the cockpit utilizing in-flight GPS and terrain. It also covers how to navigate from different altitudes. The last class would be survival training on both land and at sea. This class would go over textbooks covering the technical details on how to survive. The last part of this class would involve an exam requiring the Pilots to employ the techniques learned over a period of time on both Land and Sea.

After this part of the training, they would be granted leave for a time to decompress before beginning their actual flight training.

 

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Phase III
Primary Flight Training

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Once their decompression leave has ended, the Pilots first in-air experience is at Radom Air Field in a PZL 130 Orlik. The pilots will spend 67 hours in the air, which includes five solo flights and 27 hours utilizing simulation. The Pilots will then spend over one hundred hours in the classroom attending flight support lectures. At the end of this training pilots will be picked, based off of aptitude, grades, and in-flight skill for flight training of the following: Helicopter, Jet, Turboprop. From there the pilots will be separated to attend different classes at different air bases. Helicopter Pilots will travel to Powidz Air Base to finish their training. Turbo-prop Pilots will travel to Deblin Air Base to finish their training. Pilots chosen for the jets will stay at Radom to finish their training.

After Primary Flight Training, the pilots will proceed to Intermediate Training.

 

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Phase IV
Intermediate Training

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Once arriving at Powidz Air Base and Deblin Air Base, pilots chosen to pilot helicopters and turboprops will begin training on the PZL-130 Orlik and the PZL M28 Skytruck. This training will cover most areas of flight training but will have a special emphasis on radio and navigation training.

Pilots chosen for jet aircraft, still at Radom Air Base, will begin more classroom training. This will include meteorology, visual flight rules, and flight safety. Once their classroom training is done they will proceed to utilizing the PZL TS-11 Iskra for the beginning of their jet training. They will begin hands on training of aerobatics, gunnery, and radio communication.

Once Phase IV is over, pilots will begin advanced training.

 

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Phase V
Advanced Training

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To finish their training, jet pilots will fly the TS--11 Iskra with a focus on performing combat maneuvers and night flights. At the end of their training, the pilots will participate in a combat exercise utilizing the MiG-29s they will be assigned to.

Pilots selected as Turbo-Prop pilots will finish their training solely on the PZL M28 Skytruck. They will focus on airlift flights, night flights, and improvised runway usage. To finish their training, the pilots will fly the C-160D and M28 Skytrucks in a logistics capacity. Transporting supplies and soldiers to landing zones, utilizing improvised runways, and air dropping supplies.

Helicopter Pilots will begin training on thr PZL W-3A and the PZL W-3W, learning combat maneuvers, aerobatics, night flight, and landing under simulated fire. After this, they will begin classrom trainingnto finalize their education before moving on to the training exercise exam. There, they will be required to tansport soldiers, evacuate simulated wounded, land in hot zones where gunfire is played over loud speakers. PZL W-3W pilots will have to simulate providing close air support utilizing rocket pods, twin 20mm nose mounted cannon, and soldiers on door mounted guns. All of these exercises will have day and night variations. Once the exercises are finished, the Pilots will return to Radon Air Base where they will receive their official wings and unit assignments.

 

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Operation Poznan Phase II Special Operations Capable Flight Crew​ Phase two of Operation Poznan begins at the selection of the twenty recruits from the 21st Podhale Rifles who showed the most aptitude for flying helicopters. The objective of Phase II is the selection and training of Pilots to operate with Special Operations soldiers during their missions. Upon completion of the program, Pilots will be given Special Operations patches that can be worn above their unit patch on their uniform. Phase II will involve advanced night flying, low altitude maneuvers, CASEVAC, low altitude night flying, close air support, and SERE training.

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Unit​	Personnel​	Vehicles​
21st Podhale Rifles	20	10 PZL W-3A Sokol; 10x PZL W-3W(On Loan from Royal Special Operations)

 

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Phase I
Special Operations Introduction

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Phase I will establish a foundational understanding of Special Forces missions and doctrine, Mission Command, Introduction to Unconventional Warfare, SF History, and Polish Special Operations Strategy 21st Century. This will allow special forces operators to understand what their job will be and what will be expected of them in the future. During this time they will become familiar with the Special Operations Units of GROM, JWK, and Formoza. They will learn what types of missions these units typically perform, each member's role in the unit, and being apart of the Special Operations Community. They will also begin physical training which includes four to thirteen hour marches will full gear, simulated combat utilizing blanks, carrying of wounded at least one hundred meters in a limited time. During this phase, Pilots will be subject to strenuous psychological and physical tests.

 

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Phase II
Critical Life Saver Skills
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Phase II of the exercise will require the Special Operations Pilot to learn ground based combat skills. This involves land navigation for deserts, mountains, forests, and flatlands. They will learn basic life-saving first aid skills, nicknamed battlefield medicine. They will participate in advanced marksmanship training that involves utilizing the Polish service rifles, service pistols, and possible enemy platforms, such as the Kalashnikov and the AR-15 platforms. They will finish the beginning part of this phase by participating in the helicopter dunk test. They will be seated in an helicopter simulation where it will be placed underwater and turned upside down to simulate a crash landing in water. They will then have a limited time to extract themselves from the helicopter. From there they will participate in water survival training. This is to ensure pilots are able to keep themselves and their passengers safe during the event of a water crash landing.

After this phase they will participate in the Advanced Skills Training.

 

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Phase III
Advanced Skills
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Phase III of the Exercise will send the Special Operations Pilot to an extensive skills test that will allow them to put Special Operators where they need to be and get them out safely. This training will initially cover flying in a desert(Błędów Desert), over mountains(Tatra Mountains), over water(Baltic Sea). They will also qualify under shipboard deck landing. After those tasks are accomplished, they will simulate Urban Warfare operations by low flying through closed parts of Radom. Pilots chosen to fly the W-3W will practice close-air support using the weapons that can provide while pilots the the W-3A will practice deploying troops rapidly and efficiently. Throughout the training course they will learn how to control the aircraft during fast roping, hoisting, casualty extractions, and high altitude training where they are subjected to symptoms of hypoxia.

From here Special Operations Pilots will transition to Phase IV, which involves learning formational flight, night operations, and simulated combat flights.

 

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Phase IV
Advanced Flight
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Phase IV would start off with Special Operations Pilots attending classroom lectures on the benefits and drawback of formation flights and night operations. This class would go over proper position during formations as well as the downfalls to flying in a close formation. Once the classroom portion of the phase had concluded the Pilots would begin practicing their formations. They would start from taking off in formation, maintaining this formation as they change course, flying in formation, and finally disembarking from the formation to achieve operational plans. Once they transitions were seamless, the pilots would advance to night operations. They would be outfitting with night-vision goggles and made to fly different sorties at night to acclimatize their eyes to the effects of flying at night. Once they were used to flying with night vision devices, the pilots would begin training night operations while flying in formation. Due to limited visibility, this was considered one of the hardest parts of the training. After accomplishing their initial night operation flight training, they would be subject to a series of events that could take place during a night operation. Tracer rounds would be shot off into the sky to simulate taking small arms fire while dummy SAM units would lock onto their aircraft to test their training in maintaining formation. They would test the countermeasures and counter-maneuvers for avoiding incoming fire. Finally, they would perform a night insertion utilizing low altitude formational flying. They would hug the ground, fly to a designated spot, while avoiding radar, and insert a group of trainee pilots. The group of pilots would travel to a secondary location where a third group of pilots would adopt the same flying style, under the radar, and pick them up. They would rotate through the pilots and locations so as to simulate urban warfare, desert warfare, and forest warfare. This would prepare them for the final phase and operation.

Phase V would involve a final hand-on training exercise utilizing all of the pilots and all information learned over the period of time.

 

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Phase V
Final Exercise
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Phase V would be a single exercise that would test the pilot's abilities and information learned during the previous Phase's and Exercises. The exam would require the Pilots to finish a written answer exam on different policies, rules of engagement, survival training, and in-flight operations. After the written exam is finish, the Pilots will partake in an extensive psychological and medical exam to ensure they are in good fitness before proceeding to the final exam. The final exam will require the pilots to partake in a simulated combat environment. They will be actively engaged with blank firing weapons and weapons loaded with paint rounds. During this exercise they will be required to also perform in flight medical procedures such as stabilizing wounded service members, rappelling, landing on surface vessels, buildings, and low flying through the countryside. They will be judged on various points such as damage taken, radar pings, time spent hovering; among others. Once the final exercise is finished, the Pilots will receive their special operations insignia that can be worn on their service uniform.

This would conclude the Pilot training.

 

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