Where Swiss Pilots Train

This morning, just outside our flat we saw one of these:

"Nice" we thought and happily went our separate ways for the morning - Andy to Locarno to register for a bike race and me down to the laundry room in the basement to work my way through the large pile of ironing.
Increasing plane noise eventually made me glance out of the tiny basement window, and lo! and behold, the plane had come back with some of its friends:

So it would appear that we live where Swiss pilots come for their training :-)

I quickly unplugged the iron and ran upstairs in the hope of seeing a bit more - and I certainly did.

And off they went.... The planes were followed by a helicopter - I never knew they can fly backwards.
Just after the helicopter left Andy came home - just in time for the faster and noisier planes:

All the pictures are taken from our balcony - we think we got a pretty good free airshow !