Ukraina - Russland pøser våpen inn i Hviterussland - Putin og Xi Jinping møtes i morgen - NRK / AP

Det at Hviterussland nå mottar store mengder våpen fra Russland, fører til nervøsitet blant NATOs medlemsland i Baltikum og i Polen  (Red.)FORHOLDET RUSSLAND – UKRAINARUSSLANDNATO

3. februar 2022 kl. 09:53 

Nato slår alarm om russiske våpen i Kviterussland 

Nato-sjef Jens Stoltenberg meiner Russland er i ferd med å bygga opp sitt største militære nærvær i Kviterussland sidan den kalde krigen, melder NTB.

– Dei siste dagane har me sett ei betydeleg rørsle av russiske militære styrkar inn i Kviterussland. Dette er den største russiske styrkeutplasseringa der sidan den kalde krigen, sa generalsekretær på ei pressekonferanse torsdag.

Han legg til at det er venta at Russland vil flytte 30.000 soldatar, Spetsnaz-spesialstyrkar, kampfly, inkludert SU-35, Iskander-missiler og S400-luftforsvarssystemer.

Ifølge Stoltenberg vil dette bli kombinert med Russlands årlege kjernefysiske styrkeøvelse nå i februar.

Alt i alt har Russland oppmarsjert godt over 100.000 soldatar rundt Ukraina, ifølge Stoltenberg.

Han ber russerne om å trappa ned.

– Me er innstilt på å finna ei politisk løysing på denne krisa, men me må vera førebudd på det verste.

Ifølge Russland er dei russiske styrkane i Kviterussland for å delta på ei øving.

Associated Press:

FILE - Chinese President Xi Jinping, center left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, center right, enter a hall for talks in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, June 5, 2019. Amid the soaring tensions over Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin is heading to Beijing on a trip intended to help strengthen Russia's ties with China and coordinate their policies amid Western pressure. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool, File)

 

MOSCOW (AP) — American and European officials may be staying away from the Beijing Winter Olympics because of human rights concerns, but Russian President Vladimir Putin will be on hand even as tensions soar over his buildup of troops along his country’s border with Ukraine.

Putin’s talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday will mark their first in-person meeting since 2019 and are intended to help strengthen Moscow’s ties with China and coordinate their policies in the face of Western pressure. After, the two will attend the Games’ opening ceremony.

In an article published Thursday by the Chinese news agency Xinhua, Putin wrote that Moscow and Beijing play an “important stabilizing role” in global affairs and help make international affairs “more equitable and inclusive.”

The Russian president criticized “attempts by some countries to politicize sports to the benefit of their ambitions,” an apparent reference to a diplomatic boycott of the Olympics by the U.S. and some of its allies.

Ansatt i Forsvaret uttaler seg negativt om forsvarsavtalen med USA - Stavanger Aftenblad

Dersom jeg tolker det riktig det som står om Grøtteland i avisen, arbeider hun på Sola Flystasjon. Sjekk hele artikkelen her: https://tinyurl.com/yp5nc85s 

Jeg skulle ønske jeg kunne være enig med Grøtteland, men verden er dessverre ikke slik skrudd sammen nå at det er mulig. Sjekk artikkelen over vedr. Russland som pøser våpen inn i Hviterussland akkurat nå. Det tilbys nedrustningssamtaler med Russland. Også det er jeg uenig i, ikke fordi det ikke kunne vært gunstig overfor USA, NATO og Russland, men fordi Kina ruster opp noe voldsomt. Det er USA og NATO nødt til å ta hensyn til. En ting til: Evenes mener jeg er veldig dårlig egnet for å ta imot flere store transportfly, inklusive bakkeinstallasjoner som trengs for å levere personell- og utstyr. Jeg tipper at amerikanerne ville ønske seg Andøya, men det er åpenbart avslått fordi politikerne har besluttet i praksis å legge ned Andøya flystasjon. (Red.)

Historisk jager­fly­pilot fra Sand­nes slår alarm om USA-avtale på Sola

Mette Grøtteland trente i USA på å kunne drepe fra lufta. Nå advarer hun Stortinget mot å gi USA for vide fullmakter i Norge.

Foto: Stavanger Aftenblad

Ordknapp om bakgrunnen

52-åringen vil helst snakke minst mulig om sin bakgrunn.

For hun skal uttale seg om Norges nye forsvarssamarbeidsavtale med USA som privatperson.Ikke som yrkesoffiser siden 1990.

Ikke som stabsoffiser ved Luftoperativt inspektorat (LOI) Rygge for Luftforsvaret, med kontor på Sola flystasjon.

Ikke som tidligere flyger av F16, Boeing 737 og Sea King.

Ikke som tidligere elev ved Luftkrigsskolen eller stabsoffiser ved Forsvarets operative hovedkvarter.

Ei heller som tidligere medlem i et regjeringsutnevnt utvalg som utredet lavtflygingsområder for Forsvaret.

Før jul leverte Grøtteland et høringsinnspill til Forsvarsdepartementet. Innholdet kan leses som en bønn om at Stortinget ikke godkjenner samarbeidsavtalen med USA.

Departementet er gitt anledning til å kommentere Grøttelands uttalelser, men har ikke gjort det.

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Ryanair skal ha folk - Avionics Intl.

Ryanair Hiring Thousands of Engineers, Pilots and Cabin Crew to Support 737 Fleet Growth

By Woodrow Bellamy III | February 1, 2022
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737-8200, Boeing 737 MAX, cabin crew, engineers, Gamechanger, pilots, Ryanair

 

Ryanair plans on hiring up to 6,000 cabin crew, engineers and pilots over the next five years. (Ryanair)

Ryanair plans to add up to 6,000 new employees to its global workforce within the next five years to support a massive Boeing 737 MAX fleet expansion, according to comments made by the airline's executive team during a Jan. 31 earnings call.

Despite posting a net loss of €96 million for their third quarter fiscal year, Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary has a positive outlook for growth for the Dublin-based carrier that announced 720 new routes and 15 new bases over the last year and will need to train and hire new engineers, pilots and cabin crew to support its planned fleet growth. By 2026, Ryanair expects to grow its flight operations from a pre-COVID average of 149 million passengers annually to more than 225 million per year by 2026.

"We'll create 6,000 new jobs over the next five years, we're investing heavily in new people and training, we've opened a €50 million Dublin aviation training center, four full motion simulators, two fix-based simulators, cabin crew training facilities and we expect to open two more of those. One somewhere in the Iberian Peninsula and one in central to eastern Europe within the next two or three years," O'Leary said in a video statement released by Ryanair. "We're committed over the next five years to training and recruiting thousands of very high skilled, highly paid aviation professionals."

The start of the hiring and training expansion for Ryanair began back in September, when the airline announced the opening of its aviation training center located near Dublin Airport. Airline Flight Academy, a Dublin-based flight school, is the airline's exclusive training partner for the new facility.

Most of the training efforts for the new facility will go toward training engineers, pilots, and cabin crew to operate the Boeing 737-8200 "Gamechanger" aircraft that Ryanair is adding to its fleet. In December 2020, Ryanair increased its firm order for the 737-8200 from 135 to 210 firm orders.

"We're going to grow strongly over the next five years, we'll grow to about 620 aircraft in the fleet and with that, we'll see about 6,000 jobs created—high paying jobs, high skilled jobs for pilots, cabin crew, and engineers. We've already started the process of building out our training infrastructure," Neil Sorahan, CFO of Ryanair, said during a question and answer session with analysts.

While both O'Leary and Sorahan admitted that the rise in the number of Europeans contracting the Omicron variant caused a noticeable setback in passenger demand and the number of flights completed during their third quarter, the hiring outlook is a massive turnaround from where the airline was at the beginning of the global pandemic. In May 2020, after a historic drop-off in the number of flights being operated, Ryanair announced plans to cut 3,000 jobs—15% of its workforce—and enacted 20% pay cuts for its remaining staff.

Although O'Leary warns that another COVID-19 variant could lead to further disruptions, the 6,000 jobs being added in coming years will recoup all of the jobs it shed and add additional new staff to support its growth throughout Europe. One challenge remaining for Ryanair, though, could be the reduction in the number of non-Ryanair 737s currently being operated by European airlines, which puts a strain on the number of available engineers and pilots for the aircraft type.

O'Leary, however, does not believe that will be a concern moving forward.

"I think the job opportunities for 737 pilots across Europe in the next number of years will largely be combined to Ryanair. We have the capacity to train all our own engineers, our own pilots and our own cabin crew," O'Leary said. "But given the cost of trying to retrain the 737 pilot onto an Airbus, I think if anything, there will be a lot less turnover of pilots here in Ryanair. We will essentially be the only 737 operator here in Europe in the next couple of years."

Ryanair currently has 1,000 total 737 pilots in training, and currently has the capacity to train up to a thousand pilots per year. That number will increase once the airline adds two additional aviation training centers, bringing the total number they operate in Europe to seven.

Drone - Interessant fly for flyging i Andesfjellene - UAS Vision

 

Wingcopter and UAV LATAM Team for Drone Deliveries in Peru

German drone delivery pioneer Wingcopter is partnering with UAV LATAM, a Latin American holding with more than 10 years of experience in the unmanned aerial vehicle space (UAV) and a presence in 7 countries.

Through this alliance, Wingcopter will work with UAV del Peru, a subsidiary of UAV LATAM, deploying the Wingcopter 198, Wingcopter’s new flagship Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS), to carry out drone delivery operations for local clients. With the partnership, Wingcopter, UAV LATAM and UAV del Peru become leaders in the drone delivery space in Peru.

UAV LATAM, through UAV del Peru, plans to use Wingcopter’s cargo drones, for example, to provide access to medical products to hard-to-reach communities in the Peruvian Andes, and considers expanding the service to other countries of the region later. Since UAV LATAM’s pilots are already Wingcopter-trained, the company will be one of the first in Latin America to utilize delivery drone technology for commercial and humanitarian applications.

UAV del Peru is part of Peru Flying Labs, a member of the international Flying Labs Network that was initiated by WeRobotics to strengthen local expertise in the use of drones, robotics, data and AI for positive social change and create new job opportunities in more than 30 countries around the world. Wingcopter had joined the Flying Labs Network in early 2021 as a Technology Partner.

Juan Bergelund, CEO of UAV LATAM, comments:

“Currently, several Latin American countries have partially deficient infrastructure, especially in the health sector, affecting billions of lives, a situation that has been aggravated by COVID-19. At UAV LATAM, we are convinced that with the deployment of Wingcopter drones in Latin America, we can actively support Wingcopter’s vision of creating efficient and sustainable drone delivery solutions that improve and save lives everywhere.”

Tom Plümmer, CEO of Wingcopter, adds:

“By collaborating with UAV LATAM we leverage another great partnership to accelerate our expansion to Latin America. Our goal is to be present on all continents, through our network of Authorized Wingcopter Partners or through own drone-as-a-service operations, and we are on a good track to reach this goal soon. We can’t wait to announce more partnerships and own operations in other parts of the world to further increase our global reach and commercial traction.”

Ukraina - Spenningen tiltar - Media

 

USA flytter 1000 soldater fra Tyskland til Romania. Biden sier at 2000 mann sendes til det østlige Europa, og 8500 flere er i beredskap for å raskt kunne flyttes til Europa.  Her skjer det hele tiden noe, og det blir bare mer spennende.