ROUND OF APPLAUSE Nimes-Let us park

The Base of Naval Aeronautics (ROUND OF APPLAUSE) Nimes-Let us park , founded in 1961, is one of principal the air bases of the French Aéronavale .

It is located meadows of the town of Nimes in the Département of Gard at a few tens of kilometers of the coasts of the Mediterranean.

Mixed aerodrome (civil and military), the ground is opened with the public air traffic for the needs for air transport. A principal affectataire: the Minister for Defense for naval aeronautics. Secondary affectataires: the Minister for Transport for the civil aviation and the Minister of Interior Department for the civil security. The commander of the base of naval aeronautics is the director of aerodrome. The civil part is the airport Nimes - Arles - the Camargue

The track is equipped, in North and the South, of bits of stop for the Landings Simulated On Track (ASSP).

History

  • 1961 : inauguration of the ROUND OF APPLAUSE and arrival of the flotilla 6F (Bréguet Br 1050 Trade wind)
  • 1962: installation of the flotillas 21F and 22F (Lockheed P2V Neptune)
  • 1964: arrival of the school of the flying personnel (EPV/56S)
  • 1965: first Breguet Atlantic (ATL1) with the 21F
  • 1993: arrival of the Atlantic first (ATL2) with the 21F
  • 1996: dissolution of the flotilla 22F
  • 1997: creation of the Center of Drive and Instruction (CEI NIMES-GARONS)
  • 2000: dissolution of the flotilla 6F
  • 2002: dissolution of the flotilla 56S, arrived of the flotilla 28F (Northern 262E, Xingu)

Missions

  • Implemented operational and technical
  • Maintenance of an operational posture:
    • To ensure alarms of coordination with the ROUND OF APPLAUSE Lann-Bihoué
  • Technical support, administrative and logistics of the affected units
  • Reception of the reinforcements of the embarked air group (GAE) or maritime patrol (PATMAR)
  • Other missions:
    • air Control of the civil aeronautics activity
    • administrative Support of the attached units
    • Not of input/output of the F.C.E.
    • Maintenance of capacities of reception of passengers

Personnel

  • 1460 people:
    • 1240 soldiers
    • 7 chiefs of police
    • 125 officers
    • 800 majors and officers marines
    • 220 leading seamen and sailors
    • 90 pupils and training
    • 220 civil personnel of Defense

Units present on the ROUND OF APPLAUSE

Flotilla 21F

  • Planes used: Atlantic 2

  • Missions of defense:
    • anti-submarine fight and fight above surface
    • safety of zone and search for information
    • external deployments
  • Public service missions:
    • missions of research and rescue at sea.
    • monitoring of the space center of Guyana
    • repression of the drug trafficking.

Flotilla 28F

  • Planes used: N262E, Xingu

  • Missions:
    • monitoring of the zones of economic interest in metropolis;
    • contribution to the safety of the maritime approaches on the Mediterranean frontage by the search for information
    • participation in research and the rescue within the framework of the public service missions and the international agreements
    • air support of the area the Mediterranean

The school of the flying personnel (EPV)

  • Formation:
    • pilot multi-engine (navalisation)
    • personal stealing not pilot
    • air-traffic controllers
    • controllers of air operations

Center of Analysis and Instruction of the naval air force (CAI ALAVIA)

  • Missions:
    • instruction of the crews and the specialists in the operational environment of the plane of maritime patrol Atlantic
    • studies in the field of the acoustic war, the electronic war or the use of the sensors of the Atlantic
    • analyzes electromagnetic signals recorded by the aircraft of naval aeronautics

Center drive and of instruction (CEI)

  • Created on September 1st, 1997, CEI NIMES-GARONS takes again the missions of the Instruction service of
the ROUND OF APPLAUSE and of the DIE of the crews abinitio of the 21F.

  • Mission:

    • organization of the instruction and the drive on the ground (synthetic means) and in flight (ab-initio) of the flying personnel of the base and the formations.
  • Organization
    • section ab-initio
    • tactical section simulator
    • section simulator of piloting

Squadron of the Sailor-Firemen

  • Average of interventions:

    • 1 VLPC: Light vehicle Headquarters (radio operator code: " VLPC")
    • 2 VIM: Convey Intervention Foams (radio operator codes: " Camargues" and " Roussillon")
    • 1 CHEAP: Convey Intervention Heavy
    • 1 Cistern of Intervention
    • 1 Multi-purpose Vehicle

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Company of marine fusiliers

  • Mission:
    • to ensure the protection of the base of eronautic naval against very reached the people and the goods which are
  • Moyens there:
    • 46 men and women
    • a cynophile group of 11 dogs
    • monitoring systems (cameras, alarms,…) and armament (FAMAS, PSA and FAP)
    • elements of interventions

External bonds

  • NetMarine
  • perso Page on the air and sea basis
  • Presentation of the ROUND OF APPLAUSE Site of the National marine

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