Escadron de transport, d'entraînement et de calibrage

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The Escadron de transport, d'entraînement et de calibrage (ETEC, "Transportation, training and calibration squadron") is a unit of the French Air Force, under direct command of the Minister of Defence.

The ETEC uses 2 Dassault Falcon 900 and 4 Dassault Falcon 50 for travels within Europe, and 2 Airbus A319 for medium or long range flights. ETEC has recently acquired 2 Airbus A340-200 aircraft from Austrian Airlines for long haul flights.

In 2003, the ETEC provided flight hours 673 for the President, 516 for the Prime Minister, 602 for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and 318 for the Ministry of Defence. A flight hour costs 4050 euros for an Airbus, 5750 euros for a Falcon 900 and 4090 euros for a Falcon 50.

Flight are identified as "COTAM 0xy", with "COTAM 001" being reserved for the President and "COTAM 002" for foreign presidents.