
According to the press service of the Western Military District in the 2012 school year, the pilots made more than 250 landings of Ka-27 ship-based helicopters on the decks of the fleet ships. Squadron crews performed more than 1,5 thousand flights, 40% of them - at night. The total flight time of the pilots of the aviation unit was over 1,8 in thousands of hours, and the average flight time of each pilot was over 80 hours. As part of combat training with helicopter pilots, more than 60 training sessions were conducted to find and detect conditional enemy submarines during the day and night, as well as to search and rescue people in distress at sea, lifting them aboard from the surface of the water.




















































