Brazil authorizes use of modernized T-27M Tucano as trainer aircraft

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Brazil has given the green light for using the T-27M, the new version of the Tucano training aircraft, for the instruction of new Brazilian Air Force pilots. The Vice Director of the Institute for Industrial Development and Coordination (IFI), Colonel Soracli de Oliveira Silva, signed the Special Initial Flight Permit (PEVI), allowing the use of the T-27M Tucano as a training aircraft for Air Force Academy (AFA) cadets.

The Aerospace Products Certification Division (CPA) provided advisory services between May 2020 and January 2022 to enable the issuance of PEVIs for the first four modernized aircraft.

The aircraft modernization brings significant benefits in pilot operational training, with the removal of analog instrument cockpits and the introduction of modern digital cockpits (glass cockpit) of the same conceptual type as the front-line aircraft that these much more experienced rookies will fly during the operational progression of their career.

The Glass Cockpit concept allows flights and landing approaches based on satellite position and performance, i.e., more direct and precise, and the sending and receiving of information to air traffic control through the Automatic Dependent Air Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) system.

This system consists of a surveillance technology in which an aircraft determines its position through satellite navigation and transmits it periodically to ground stations, allowing it to be tracked by airspace control.

DELIVERY OF T-27M AIRCRAFT

The first four modernized T-27M aircraft were delivered in December 2021, during a military ceremony in which Air Force Commander Carlos de Almeida Baptista Junior flew one of the aircraft from Guarulhos (São Paulo State) to Pirassununga (São Paulo State), where the T-27M will be used for training flights.

Carried out by technicians and specialists from the Lagoa Santa Aeronautical Material Park (PAMA-LS), with the support of the General Support Command (COMGAP), the Directorate of Aeronautical and War Material (DIRMAB), the Air Force Academy (AFA), and the Flight Research and Test Institute (IPEV), the modernization of the aircraft contributes to raising the level of training of Brazilian pilots.

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