Under this name, an article and a story about training flights by cadets of Kremenchug Flight College of Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs were published on Kremenchukskaya Gazeta website. 

On the first day of the academic year, the First Vice-Rector of KhNUIA, Police Colonel Dmytro Shvets, and the director of the college, Ruslan Yakovlev, together with journalists and chief editor Oleh Bulashev visited "Velyka Kokhnivka Airfield” in Kremenchuk. We offer to read the article.

After three years of training, the current cadets have started flying, and those who have entered now will fly with an instructor after the second year of training.

For many years, the cadets of Kremenchug Flight College only studied theory and waited a long time to fly a practical program and become a pilot.

With the transition of the college from the system of the Ministry of Education to the system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the situation has changed. The cadets began to fly. “Kremenchukskaya Gazeta”, whose chief editor Oleh Bulashev also studied to be a pilot at the Kremenchug Flight College, learned how this happens.

According to the director of the college Ruslan Yakovlev, after three years of training, the current cadets have started flying, and those who have entered now will fly with an instructor for 145 hours after the second year of training .

All students who now are rising into the sky at the airfield "Velyka Kohnivka" have undergone ground training. Pilot instructor Yurii Rubanyk says that together with the cadets he develops flight routes, plot the course on the charts, deals with everything necessary to prepare cadets for the flight.

"We have to plot the route to Kirovograd and Kryvyi Rih airfields. The flight altitude is not less than 400 m, ”Yu. Rubanyk notes.

The cadets themselves say that they should fly at least 45 hours on the Mi-2. Then they will receive all documents and will get to structure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. There they plan to retrain on an Airbus helicopter.

"I have flown 31 hours and 40 minutes so far. I'm from a dynasty of pilots. Father and brother are pilots ...

He performed solo flight at 17 hours. It was exciting. Emotions were overflowing, ”says cadet Mykyta Zhyvytsia. The journalists of “Kremenchukskaya Gazeta” took off with Yu. Rubanyk and M. Zhyvytsia in one of the five Mi-2 helicopters.

From a bird's eye view, we observed district Molodiznyi and Oil refinery, looked at the fields around Kremenchuk and the city's infrastructure.

"The flight was done well. No mistakes were made, ”Yu. Rubanyk told about the cadet's actions after landing.

He says that the cadets are in high spirits after the flights.

"They come to us happy, and when they climb in the sky, there are no limits to happiness at all. We teach them how to be, and life will teach what is ...

If you watch the movie "Icebreaker", then there the actions of the pilots generally differ from reality. This is evident to any pilot or aviation expert ... and the real movie is "Only old men go into battle” ...

We should be proud of our graduates and let them not forget their native college, "said pilot instructor Yuriy Rubanyk.

Indeed, we, the people of Kremenchug, should be proud of the fact that such unique educational institution as the Kremenchug Flight College is situated here, where passed training pilots from more than 70 countries around the world.

After the decline, today, we have the heyday of college.

""We worked to get this and will go on.. We are not going to stop, "said Dmytro Shvets, the First Vice-Rector of Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs, which included Kremenchug Flight College a few years ago.

Ruslan Yakovlev said that the next step in the future will be the receiving of educational institution French Airbus helicopters, commissioning of the Airbus simulator, overhaul of dormitories and canteens of the college, as well as improving its material and technical base.

Oleh Bulashov

Information link:https://kg.ua/news/pershi-kroki-u-nebo-yak-kursanti-kremenchuckogo-lotnogo-koledzhu-sili-za-shturvali-i-shcho

Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udrTU3ZMQEA

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