{"id":325,"date":"2007-10-04T18:09:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T18:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=325"},"modified":"2007-10-04T18:09:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-04T18:09:00","slug":"canada-firm-to-acquire-indian-flight-training-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2007\/10\/canada-firm-to-acquire-indian-flight-training-school.html","title":{"rendered":"Canada firm to acquire Indian flight training school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">New Delhi<\/span>: Canada-based Flight Crew International (FCI) is on the verge of acquiring an Indian company to train pilots and engineers.<br \/>&#8221;It will be our first acquisition in this region,&#8221; said FCI president Dru Narwani who is here to meet aviation industry officials to gain perspective on the industry&#8217;s inherent strengths and types of challenges &#8212; from human resources to technological.<br \/>FCI is a fully owned subsidiary of Atlantis Systems Corporation, a Toronto Stock Exchange listed company in the aerospace sector.<br \/>Atlantis&#8217; core competence is in learning systems. It designs a courseware using leading edge instructional systems design (web-based, e-learning, simulators, using cognitive learning advanced techniques) to train Canadian military pilots. &#8221;Rather than the traditional mom and pop flying schools which have a very high breakeven point, FCI will now use Atlantis intellectual property to convert all civilian flight training into this new way of teaching,&#8221; said Mr Narwani. &#8221;We&#8217;ll impart high-quality education using modern simulators.&#8221; Many discussions with regulators and flight schools in Canada and India have confirmed that there is a huge untapped opportunity here, he said.<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">03\/10\/07 UNI\/Web India 123 <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Canada-based Flight Crew International (FCI) is on the verge of acquiring an Indian company to train pilots and<\/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-325","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\/325","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=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}