A flight skills testing contest «Naval Ace 2016» organized for naval aviation was held in the 859thCombat Deployment and Pilot Transition Training Centre of the Russian Navy Aviation located in Yeysk.
At the high-profile awards ceremony an honored test pilot of the Russian Federation from OJSC «IL» Vladimir Irinarkhov in the name of OJSC Ilyushin Aviation Complex granted a prize, a mock-up of modernized IL-38N «Rady Papkovsky», to the best IL-38 ASW aircraft crew.
The aircrew of the Russian Pacific Fleet IL-38 aircraft (Yelizovo air base, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky) under the command of captain Alexander Friedrich was announced a winner for the given contest.
Within the frame of the practical part of the given contest IL-38 aircrew performed a flight en-route and reached the training range at pre-defined time where the contestants deployed a group of radio hydro-acoustic buoys intended for search of adversary submarine and executed air bombardment of radar discrete target as well as exercised combat maneuvering round the hypothetical adversary AA defence system.











