{"id":197,"date":"2007-07-11T09:37:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-11T09:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=197"},"modified":"2007-07-11T09:37:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-11T09:37:00","slug":"aviation-better-option-than-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2007\/07\/aviation-better-option-than-university.html","title":{"rendered":"Aviation &#039;better option than university&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:180%;\" >Y<\/span>oung Bahrainis should think about going to pilot school instead of university, the chief executive of an Australian aviation institution said in Manama last night.<br \/>An unprecedented global boom in aviation and huge demand for pilots means training to be a pilot now offers a more stable career than many academic disciplines, said Australian Wings Academy&#8217;s Phil Sweeney.<br \/>He was speaking as he delivered a presentation at the Crowne Plaza Hotel&#8217;s Convention Centre designed to showcase the flight school he bought three years ago on Australia&#8217;s Gold Coast.<br \/>He said the industry had weathered the post 9\/11 storm and was now making huge advances &#8211; meaning it is a better time to be a pilot.<br \/>&#8220;India and China need 5,000 additional pilots every year in for the next three to five years &#8211; we have never seen growth like this in aviation. It is a highly regarded profession all around the world and it is a good career move. Once you have got your licence, you can work pretty much anywhere in the world,&#8221; he said.<br \/>He compared attending a pilot school with that of enrolling at university, pointing out that students only had to study for one year to hold a commercial pilots licence and a first job with an average monthly salary of $4000 compared to spending four years at university and then picking up an average of $1800 per month.<br \/>However, he did admit tuition costs were likely to be higher.<br \/>Highlighting the huge orders by many regional airlines at a recent airshow, he said with hundreds of new aircraft destined for the Gulf, newly qualified pilots would not have any problems finding employment in or next to their home country.<br \/>&#8220;Each aircraft needs six to eight sets of crew &#8211; so one plane requires 12-16 pilots to keep it constantly in the air. Multiply each of these big orders in the region by 12 or 16 and you will see there is certainly are a lot of pilots needed in the Middle East,&#8221; he said.<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">111\/07\/07 Mark Summers\/Gulf Daily News, Bahrain<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young Bahrainis should think about going to pilot school instead of university, the chief executive of an Australian aviation institution<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}