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PILOT TRAINING [airlines'] fleets of Boeing 737s," he says. The United link is a dream fulfilled for ATCA president Capt Willy Kuhweide, who has described attracting a US airline to ab initio training as a major goal. Kuhweide says that the United decision is also representative of more fundamental shifts in the relationship between US airlines and flight schools. LOOMING PILOT-SHORTAGE "Clearly, there are changes going on in these relationships, mainly because the traditional sources of pilots — such as the military — are slowly going away. I would think that the airline industry will face that shortage very soon and this is becom ing more obvious to chief executives," Kuhweide says. Other US flight schools echo Kuhweide's observations, as well as noting the continued strong demand for ab initio training from foreign (particularly Far Eastern) airlines. Carriers such as Asiana, China Airlines, Korean Air and Swissair have ab initio programmes in place with US flight schools. Chinese airlines, led by Air China, are also turning to the USA for all-through training. Now, the US carriers appear to be coming round. Northwest Air lines signed a prefer ential-hiring agree ment with the Uni versity of North Da kota's UND Aero space in November 1993, under which the carrier will undertake to hire se lected students grad uating from the University's Spec trum degree course. Spectrum is an ab initio programme co-developed by Northwest and UND Aerospace. UND says that the initial group of 25 students selected for the Preferential Hir- Air China has signed a training deal with FlightSafety International ing Programme (PHP) are expected to graduate in the second quarter of 1997. For the PHP, Spectrum training will be expanded to include a type rating on the aircraft which they will fly when joining Northwest — expected to be the McDon- nell Douglas DC-9. BRITISH AEROSPACE FLYING COLLEGE PRESTWICK INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AYRSHIRE, SCOTLAND KA9 2RW The BAe Flying College is the first choice for pilot training. It boasts excellent facilities, up-to-date equipment, and a highly motivated team of professional instructors. There are places available to self-funding cadets on a CPL/IR with frozen ATPL Course commencing on 30 May 1994. The College has CAA Approval to conduct the single-engine phase of the Course at Salina, USA, in conjunction with the Kansas State University. The price for this Course is £55,500 and includes: + All ground and flying instruction • Landing and Navigation Charges • Full Airline uniform 4 Full-board accommodation • Equipment ^ Airfare to and from Salina 4- UK Value Added Tax Telephone Marilyn Sant, Marketing Executive on 0292 671022 or 0292 671457 for further details. BRITISHAEROSPACE\ FLYING COLLEGE The University is already performing ab initio training for Taiwan's China Airlines and is about to announce a new customer, believed to be a mainland Chinese airline. UND Aerospace is also expanding; setting up satellite flight-training operations at Huntsville, Alabama, and Mesa, Arizona. At Mesa's Williams Gateway Airport, it is providing flight training for a consor tium of community colleges offering avia tion courses. UND has also agreed to license its Spectrum degree course to Hawaii Univer sity and the Honolulu Community Col lege and to establish a joint-venture flight- training operation in Hawaii. Planned to get under way in late 1995, the Honolulu venture is expected eventually to offer contract ab initio training services to Far East airlines. CHINESE TRAINING Air China has just signed an ab initio training agreement with the FlightSafety International Academy in Vero Beach, Florida. Training will begin in June with an initial nine or ten students, says Academy head John Merino. Also in June, the first class of ab initio students from China's Civil Aviation Flying College (CAFC) will graduate at Vero Beach. Training for Air China will be similar to that performed for the CAFC, which is run by the Civil Aviation Authority of China. The comprehensive ab initio course lasts 34 weeks and students return to China for turbine-transition training on the Piper Cheyenne IIIA. Merino confirms that US airlines are increasingly interested in some form of ab initio training. Already, US regionals At lantic Southeast Airlines and Chicago Express have hired low-time graduates of the Academy and Merino predicts that some US airlines may adopt a "farm-team" approach. Under this method, low-time FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 30 March - 5 April, 1994
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