Flight Design Selected By India's Largest Flight School

LSA manufacturer Flight Design has recently entered the Indian market, and the largest flight school in India, Academy of Carver Aviation Pvt. Ltd., has become a Flight Design Pilot Center and the distributor for India.
“The new LSA airplanes are very attractive for flight schools,” said Matthias Betsch, CEO of Flight Design. Especially in the emerging market of India, flight schools need to expand and to contain costs even when supplying the largest airlines with pilots.
The Flight Design CT series offers low acquisition and operation cost, but they must also be reliable for instructional use hour after hour, day after day. Betsch noted India has unusual proof of the CT’s reliability. “A flight around the world in a CT by two pilots from the Indian Air Force has shown the reliability and performance of the airplane,” he reported. Academy of Carver Aviation Pvt. Ltd agrees.
“The CTLS is mature, third-generation light airplane … which is easy to run and to service even in the geographical and metrological conditions of India,” observed Academy of Carver Aviation Pvt. Ltd. CEO, Marc Carvalho. “The performance, range, view and interior space make the CTLS superior to standard GA airplanes therefore we expect a significant number of private pilots buying Flight Designs and our instructors have never seen or experienced a more comfortable work place.”
As in many countries of the world, avgas has limited availability in India. Therefore the use of automobile fuel can increase the utility of the airplane substantially. The Rotax 912 engine in the CT can use either fuel, even mixed in any ratio. Academy of Carver Aviation Pvt. Ltd. plans to replace the fleet of GA basic training airplanes in the next 18 month by Flight Design models and will open one more flight school in India by end of the 2009.
09/07/09 Aero-News.Net