New Pilot: Mike Bennett - Pilot Training, Eagle & Edwards Colorado
Congrats to Edwards Colorado resident Mike Bennett. Mike completed his training and checkride for Private Pilot Airplane Single Engine Land yesterday in Crawford, Colorado. Mike learned to fly at Eagle County Regional Airport through Alpine Flight Training in N542DC, a Diamond Katana. Welcome aboard Mike!
Alpine Flight Training is based in Eagle Colorado and offers training for private, instrument, commercial and CFI, CFII and ATP ratings. Come visit us or give us a call for more information.
Patricia Lee Completes Private Pilot License
Edwards resident Patricia Lee yesterday completed her Private Pilot's License. Congrats to Patricia. The designated pilot examiner was gushing over how well Patricia performed the maneuvers and how well she was prepared for the checkride. Certainly all her hard work and long hours of study paid off.
Patricia completed all of her flight training here at Alpine Flight Training in Eagle Colorado in the Diamond DA-20-C1 Katana Evolution.
Alpine Flight Training - Public Event April 10, 2012
Tuesday April 10th, 6PM, the Eagle County Aviation Association will be holding it's semi-monthly meeting at the Vail Valley Jet Center - Terminal B. Alpine Flight Training's own Loren French will be the featured speaker. Members and non-members are invited. There will be refreshments provided by the Eagle County Aviation Association. The topic of the meeting will be a fun and educational session from one of our own flight instructors.
Enhance your flying with iPad
Learn how the iPad can enhance your planning, awareness, safety and efficiency in this interactive session.
Tuesday, April 10, 2012 , starting at 6:00 pm
Speaker(s): Loren French, CFII/MEI/ATP, Alpine Flight Training
This interactive session will be fun and educational for novice and seasoned pilots both instrument and non-instrument rated. We'll look at how the iPad can enhance your flight planning, situational awareness, safety and efficiency. As we tour different airspace on the iPad we'll also review regulations, equipment requirements, chart symbols and various applications and add-on devices for the iPad. We'll use the iPad to gain insight to every type of airspace including MOAs, Restricted airspace, controlled, and uncontrolled. We'll review airspaces and regulations for each as we tour the USA on the iPad. We'll also look at weather resources and flight planning for both IFR and VFR on the iPad. The presenters iPad will be connected to projection system, you can bring along your iPad if you desire to follow along.
Vail Valley Jet Center - Terminal B
871 Cooley Mesa Road
Terminal B
Gypsum, CO 81637
Directions to Venue:
Park outside the fence in the parking area near the Vail Valley Jet Center. Enter through Gate 4 (the walk through gate), enter the Vail Valley Jet Center and proceed straight through to the Terminal B area.
Credit Applicability: 1 Credit for Basic Knowledge Topic 3
Cody Messer completes Private Pilot Training at Alpine Flight Training
Today Cody Messer or Carbondale, Colorado received his Private Pilot License in Airplane Single Engine Land. He took the checkride earlier today in Crawford Colorado in N542DC - a Diamond DA-20-C1 Katana Evolution. Congratulations Cody!
Grand Canyon Special Airspace | Flying the Grand Canyon
An online safety program about the Grand Canyon Special Airspace
Here's a neat program about the Grand Canyon Airspace. It's a great 49 slide program greatly detailing all the information about the Grand Canyon Airspace. It explains all the altitudes, the GA corridors, and the FAR 93 requirement to monitor the specific frequencies. It's loaded with lots of pictures, charts, and even some basic video type effects. At the end, it allows you to print a certificate and qualifies as the classroom safety portion of the FAA Wings Program. This would be a really great review for any pilots that ever take trips in that direction.
See Also
- National Interagency Airspace (Forest Fire Fighters)
Welcome to the National Interagency Airspace Information website
Rod Egizii Received Commercial Pilot's License
Today, March 5th, 2012 Rod Egizii of Edwards, Colorado received his Commercial Pilot's License. Training for the checkride was performed at Alpine Flight Training in the Cessna Cardinal 177-RG. The checkride was completed at Crawford, Colorado. Way to go Rod! Congratulations!
David Dill completes Private Pilot License
Today David Dill, a Grand Canyon River Guide and Backcountry Ski Guide of Buena Vista Colorado received his Private Pilot License in Airplane Single Engine Land. He took the checkride earlier today in Rifle Colorado in N542DC - a Diamond DA-20-C1 Katana Evolution. Congratulations David!
Pilot Training and Hiring - British Airways – 800 Pilots During the Next 5 Years, Renewed Interest in Ab Initio
From flightglobal.com
Boeing forecasts a need for 466,650 new pilots and 596,500 maintenance personnel to enter the industry over the next 20 years. According to a crew assessment forecast from Boeing, airlines will need an average of 23,300 new pilots and 30,000 new maintenance personnel per year from 2010 to 2029.
However, there is “no clear, long-term industry standard on how the next pilot generation will be trained to command the large fleet in the manufacturers' orderbooks“, Flight International emphasizes.
British Airways changed its pilot recruitment strategy last August after it foresaw a potential flightcrew shortage. The UK carrier wants to employ about 800 pilots during the next five years. While it needs about 100 new employees per year to maintain its approximately 3,200-strong cockpit workforce, BA wants to employ 150 flightcrew members every year for growth. Half of these recruits should come via direct entry from other airlines and the military, while the other half will be career starters from ab initio level. This is BA's biggest pilot recruitment initiative in more than a decade.
The main difference lies in the renewed interest in ab initio students. BA employed fresh air transport pilot licence (ATPL) holders before, but those graduates had undertaken and financed their training independently and were hired from the open market after qualification.
Airlines, including BA, previously pre-financed the training of a limited number of ab initio students after they had undergone an initial selection process, with the young pilots repaying the fees later during employment. This changed, however, with the aviation downturn after 9/11 and the concurrent rise of budget carriers such as EasyJet and Ryanair, which had always drawn cockpit personnel from the open pilot market. Petteford points out that the shift to this "retail" training model has moved control over cadet enrolment numbers from airlines to individuals.
BA still does not pay for the flight training in three selected academies, but now helps its students secure the required funding by guaranteeing a bank loan. Access to credit has become a main hurdle for pilot aspirants because of the financial crises since 2008, threatening to turn the profession into a career option mainly for children from sufficiently affluent backgrounds. BA worked with banks to devise a loan scheme because it feared the pool of applicants made of the right stuff was becoming too limited.
BA sister carrier Iberia is also recruiting a large number of flightcrew, although this will only be for its planned low-cost subsidiary Iberia Express, due to begin operations with four Airbus A320s at the end of March, which will gradually take over the parent's short- and medium-haul network. While 125 pilots are needed for the start-up phase, this is set to increase as the new airline is scheduled to have 13 aircraft by year-end and 40 by 2015. Iberia has traditionally recruited qualified pilots from a military or civilian background.
A number of flightcrew will transfer to Iberia Express from the parent carrier, which will concentrate exclusively on long-haul flights. The latter's approximately 1,500-strong cockpit workforce will gradually move up the ranks and convert to the A330/A340 fleet as senior flightcrew members retire. However, Iberia has no plans to recruit new pilots for the mainline operations. Whether it will be possible for Iberia Express flightcrew to transfer to the parent carrier is as yet unclear. Lufthansa expects to take on about 300 new pilots this year. The German airline mainly recruits ab initio cadets who learn their trade at the in-house training campuses in Bremen and Goodyear, Arizona. Only if demand exceeds the available supply of career starters does the airline fall back on direct-entry pilots.
Aviation Training - Pilot Demand Rising
Here's an interesting piece from Baltic Aviation:
CAE Inc. is stepping up its business with Asia. It has sold five full-flight simulators and other training equipment together worth $65 million at list prices to Asian clients.
Citing estimates that Asia region would need at least 72,000 pilots in the next 20 years, Cebu Air Inc. (CEI) president and chief executive officer Lance Gokongwei signed with the Clark Development Corp. (CDC) an agreement for the establishment of a world-class, $50-million pilot training academy.
Environmental Tectonics Corporation (OTCQB: ETCC) ("ETC" or the "Company") today reported net sales for the 2012 third fiscal quarter of $17.3 million, an increase of $1.1 million, or 6.9% over net sales of $16.2 million in the 2011 third fiscal quarter
The integrated airport meteorological instrument system (AMIS), which is currently operational at eight airports in the India, will be extended to another 46 airports as part of the IMD's modernization program.
The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) Director General, Dr Harold Demuren, has said Nigeria has the highest safety standard. He also mentioned that was the reason Nigeria has not had any major accident recently, adding that no aircraft can fly in this country today without maintenance and safety record.
Pilot Training College, which has bases in Waterford and Dublin, has won a €12 million contract, the biggest in its history, RTE Ireland reported on 20 January.
Sheridan College and the Brampton Flying Club announced a new partnership. It will allow students to earn a business degree and their commercial pilot's license in the same four years.
Philippine Airlines (PAL) had purchased a brand-new Airbus A320 full flight simulator.
Cabair International’s flight crew selection team is touring across the UK in 2012 looking for new pilots to join the class of 2012. Cabair will be scouting for at least 100 new recruits to train to be qualified as commercial pilots to the highest JAA accredited standards.
IATA has signed a deal with Etihad Airways for a training partnership to roll out training courses for the travel sector in the region. The agreement took place at the IATA-AACO Aeropolitical Affairs Forum in Abu Dhabi. Courses will include the Airline Customer Service program, but will extend to fields in aviation, cargo, travel and tourism, including courses for travel agents.
India's aviation regulator plans to review the massive fleet expansion plans of IndiGo, the country's No.2 airline, after the safety audit found a shortage of trained staff and alleged operational discrepancies, a report by the regulator shows.
At Singapore Airshow, happening on 14-19 February, Aviation Training & Services are discussed on Thursday, 16 February at Southeast Asia Business Forum. 5th International Conference “Air Transport Safety“ conference, held in Moscow, Renaissance Hotel, discusses particularities of training flight personnel for modern aircraft. Aviation Professionals conference, held on February 21, Moscow, will expand the topic on the cooperation of the state and the private sector as well as modern technologies of training.