FlightSafety International announces that FlightSafety Academy, located in Vero Beach, Florida, has entered into an agreement with CABAIR and its affiliate, Orlando Flight Training, to jointly offer JAA pilot training.

FlightSafety Academy students who wish to qualify for a European license will be able to complete their FAA qualifications in Vero Beach before moving to Orlando Flight Training in Kissimmee, Florida for JAA ATPL ground school/CPL course and then to CABAIR in the United Kingdom to obtain a JAA Instrument Rating.
 
Phase one of the 13 month, three phase program, will be conducted at FlightSafety Academy in Vero Beach, Florida. It includes completion of the FAA Private Pilot License, Single-engine Instrument Rating and an Hours Build course to achieve 170 hours of total time. The training will be conducted in Piper Warrior Cadet aircraft over a six month period.
 
Orlando Flight Training will conduct phase two of the program. This six month course includes 750 hours of ground school, the required written examinations, and the start of a JAA Commercial Pilot flight training program. Students will achieve 10 hours CPL Single-engine and 8 hours Multi-engine during this phase and will take a JAA CPL skills test.
 
Students will then complete the course at CABAIR with a one month instrument conversion phase program that includes 10 hours of flight simulator training and 10 hours in a multi-engine aircraft.
 
FlightSafety Academy helps to prepare students to fly advanced technology aircraft safely and efficiently in an increasingly complex environment. They have access to FlightSafety’s large fleet of single and multi engine aircraft, full flight simulators, and advanced training devices. The Academy has onsite accommodations for up to 350 people and a full compliment of classrooms, briefing rooms and aircraft maintenance hangars.
 
Many international and domestic airlines as well as corporate flight departments from around the world consider the FlightSafety Academy to be an excellent source for well-trained pilots. Over 13,000 graduates now fly for more than 50 airlines and 100 corporate flight departments worldwide.

Starting in 2010, Pilot Training Network, the wholly-owned subsidiary of Lufthansa Flight Training, GmbH, will train its students according to a new concept that will emphasize more efficiency and higher quality in their training. Both the FlightCrew Academy and InterCockpit flying schools, combined under the Pilot Training Network umbrella, will start teaching the practical part of Airline Transport Pilot License training for airline pilots in Vero Beach, Florida, and Rostock-Laage, Germany next year. This corporate decision to relocate from the Croatian city of Zadar is a result of the growing number of flying school students as well as increased infrastructural and operational needs.

In spite of the economic crisis, Pilot Training Network has experienced significant student growth. Last year, 151 new airline pilot trainees started in both InterCockpit and FlightCrew Academy flying schools. There are now three times more pilot trainees as in the year the company was founded – a positive trend that continues.

“The infrastructure of our current site would have been pushed to its limits within the foreseeable future,” explains Wolfgang Raebiger, General Manager of Pilot Training Network and an airline pilot himself. “We have therefore decided to move our practical flying phases to Germany and the U.S. to restructure our training.”

The first part of flight training, called VFR training for visual flight rules, will be taught at FlightSafety Academy at the Vero Beach Municipal Airport. Ideal meteorological conditions for this initial flight stage, short paths, very well equipped training rooms and a modern training fleet ensure effective, high-quality training. With FlightSafety, Pilot Training Network has not only gained a partner with decades of experience, but also an infrastructure geared for growth.

FlightSafety Academy is located in Vero Beach, Florida. It helps to prepare students to fly advanced technology aircraft safely and efficiently in an increasingly complex environment. Students have access to FlightSafety’s large fleet of single and multi engine aircraft, full flight simulators, and advanced training devices. The Academy has onsite accommodations for up to 350 people and a full compliment of classrooms, briefing rooms and aircraft maintenance hangars

“This reorganization invests in a smoother training operation, which can now be ensured in spite of the much greater number of students,“ explains Wolfgang Raebiger.

About Pilot Training Network
Pilot Training Network GmbH was founded in 2001 as a fully-owned subsidiary of Lufthansa Flight Training GmbH. Headquartered in the Frankfurt/Main Airport, on the premises of the Lufthansa Flight Training Center, Pilot Training Network is located right in the middle of the busiest center of German aviation.

Since its founding, the company has successfully operated the InterCockpit flying school. In April 2008, Pilot Training Network joined Lufthansa CityLine and Germanwings to create a second flying school – the FlightCrew Academy, which stands for a cooperation concept for an even more purposeful airline pilot training.

About FlightSafety International
FlightSafety International is the world’s premier professional aviation training company and supplier of flight simulators, visual systems and displays to commercial, government and military organizations. We provide more than a million hours of training each year to pilots, technicians and other aviation professionals. FlightSafety operates the world’s largest fleet of advanced full flight simulators at Learning Centers and training locations in the United States, Canada, Europe, South Africa and Asia.