A Filipina has qualified to join the ranks of the country’s elite jet fighter pilots, the Philippine Air Force (PAF) announced on Thursday.<\/p>\n
PAF spokesperson Col. Maynard Mariano said 1st Lt. Jul Laiza Mae B. Camposano-Beran qualified to fly into combat using the SIAI-Marchetti AS-211 light jet combat aircraft, which the PAF also uses in attack and surveillance missions.<\/p>\n
“The PAF made history (by) having its own, first-ever female fighter pilot on March 30, 2022 from the 5th Fighter Wing at Basa Air Base, Floridablanca, Pampanga. 1st Lt. Jul Laiza Mae B. Camposano-Beran was checked out as the first female AS-211 combat mission ready pilot and wingman,” he added.<\/p>\n
Mariano said Camposano-Beran first flew alone or went “solo” in the AS-211 on December 5, 2020.<\/p>\n
“May (she had) 150 plus hours na siya sa (in flying the) AS-211,” he added in a message to the Philippine News Agency.<\/p>\n
Mariano said Camposano-Berran underwent the “Jet Qualification Training” and the so-called “Intro To Fighter Fundamentals and Combat Crew Training” both in the AS-211, before flying “solo”.<\/p>\n
These trainings, which take around two years, are done to ensure that fighter pilot trainees like Camposano-Beran will not only know how to fly the aircraft but will also allow them to learn about fighting air-to-air, air-to-ground, and air-to-surface in the AS-211, he added.<\/p>\n
“And while doing this, she was also flying with the FA-50 as a backseat pilot and (becoming) combat experience having flown in the FA-50 on an actual strike mission,” he added.<\/p>\n
Once Camposano-Beran will get more experience and flying time in the AS-211, she will transition or transfer to the FA-50PHs.<\/p>\n
This will take place once she acquires 300 hours in the AS-211, Mariano added.<\/p>\n
The FA-50PH is the PAF’s primary jet fighter capable of speeds of Mach 1.5 and was acquired from South Korea in 2015 up to 2017.<\/p>\n
Camposano-Beran during her training at the PAF Flying School flew the propeller-driven T-41D or the Cessna R-172 during the primary phase of her training and then the SIAI-Marchetti SF-260MP in the Basic Phase of her military pilot training.<\/p>\n
In total, she gained around 180 hours of flying time in the two propeller-driven aircraft before graduating in 2017.<\/p>\n
Camposano-Beran is a native of Tulunan, Cotabato and a member of the Philippine Military Academy Class of 2015.<\/p>\n
“She became the fifth female in the Academy to receive the Athletic Saber Award over 170 members of her class,” he added.<\/p>\n
Also, Mariano said that two more female pilots are presently undergoing fighter pilot training. (PNA)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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