The university will offer two-year general education, to be followed by another twoyear on-field training including a 220-hour flight training course at the Szolnok base, József Koller said.

The degrees will be for fighter plane, helicopter and cargo plane pilots, he added.

The programme is designed to help replace current army pilot staff nearing retirement, as well as to train additional staf f for new planes of the Air Force, he said.

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