The Austrian Armed Forces will carry out supersonic training flights with the Eurofighters from November 15 to 26, 2021. Two training sessions are planned per day between 8:00 a.m. and 16:00 p.m.

Almost the entire federal territory is flown with the exception of metropolitan areas and the federal states of Tyrol and Vorarlberg. The flight areas are determined in cooperation with civil air traffic control. In order to keep the noise level as low as possible, it is flown at great heights.

This training is an indispensable part of a functioning Austrian airspace surveillance. Safe flight operations must also be guaranteed when deployed in the supersonic range and flight safety has the highest priority. The pilots train under real physical stress, which cannot be represented in the simulator. The close and extremely time-critical coordination between military pilots, radar control officers and military and civil air traffic control is also an essential purpose of the training, according to the armed forces.