The School of Helicopters of the Armed Forces, in the Air Combat Command No 4, CACOM 4, of the Colombian Air Force, trained and prepared for the first time two women, one woman from Colombia and another from Costa Rica of the course No. 56 of the Basic Helicopter Pilot in the TH 67 team; they were 14 students from Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic and Colombia.
After nine months of preparation, the second lieutenant Forero Moncada Viviana Yesenia, becomes the first woman pilot officer of helicopters of the National Army of Colombia and the agent Arnesto Segura Yuriana, in the first woman pilot of the Service of Air Surveillance of Costa Rica.
One with 4 years at service of the country and the other with nine years respectively, they become an icon for the other military women who make these institutions. With sacrifice they trained with, professionalism and responsibility and overcome each of the phases of their preparation and training with the sole purpose of fulfilling their dream of flying a helicopter in the only Helicopter School in Latin America of Spanish speaking.
The academic program through which this group of Colombian and foreign students must pass is composed of five modules: use doctrine, aircraft systems, flight operation, tactical, night and visor phases, in addition to the instruments flight phase.
In this way, the School consolidates as the cradle of rotary wing pilots and contributes to the mission of the Colombian Air Force to form helicopter crews with the highest standards in training and directed under the air doctrine, being the Basic pilot program of Helicopter a success, becoming a national and international benchmark as leaders of education in rotary wing.
Source: Air Combat Command No 4
