RTS ROI Centre - Baldonnel Visit September 2016
RTS Baldonnel Visit September 2016
AViation Experience..
Brigadier General Paul Fry welcoming a group from the RTS ROI Centre who he invited to visit the Irish Air Corps training simulators at Casement Aerodrome Baldonnel on the 7th September 2016.
RTS Members Godfrey Graham and Charles Byrne presenting Brigadier General Paul Fry with photos
from an early rescue mission covered by RTÉ using one of the air corps helecopters .
The group visited the Museum at Baldonnel .. and were given a tour by Airman Mick Whelan ...who gave us a wonderful account of the many aeronautical treasures stored in the Museum..
There are two training simulators at Baldonnel which the group were able to try...Airman David Shanley showed and explained the simulators..
The RTS Group with air corps guide Joseph Ward visiting one of the hangers..
Colleague Colm Kirwan trying the simulator..
Very realistic experience...
Some of the aircraft in the Museum...
Colleague Bobby Bell flying high in the simulator..
The 7 overhead video projectors that give the most impressive images for the simulator..
Many thanks to colleague Colm Kirwan for his help with the photos on the day... CB
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