{"id":586,"date":"2008-03-10T09:48:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-10T09:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=586"},"modified":"2008-03-10T09:48:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-10T09:48:00","slug":"indian-students-flocks-to-new-zealand-flying-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2008\/03\/indian-students-flocks-to-new-zealand-flying-schools.html","title":{"rendered":"Indian students flocks to New Zealand flying schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:180%;\" >M<\/span>anawatu is reaping the benefits of the booming Indian economy, with large numbers of potential pilots winging their way to our flight training schools to earn their commercial licences.<br \/>It is estimated more than 200 Indian students are undertaking training in New Zealand this year, bringing millions of dollars to the economy.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/flightmanawatu.co.nz\/index.htm\">Flight Training Manawatu<\/a>, based at the Feilding Aerodrome, has 27 international students on its books thanks largely to a recruiting agent encouraging young Indians to enrol.<br \/>Chief executive Michael Bryant said <a href=\"http:\/\/flightmanawatu.co.nz\/about.htm\">the school<\/a>, which runs 13 aircraft, has a full roll and even has a waiting list for domestic students.<br \/>The resulting financial flow-on for the region was enormous, he said.<br \/>&#8220;I can&#8217;t disclose figures. As you probably know, flight training isn&#8217;t cheap. But it&#8217;s not just the fees coming in, they live here for eight or nine months so you have accommodation and all those other expenses as well.<br \/>&#8220;The spin-off for the local economy really is huge.&#8221;<br \/>New English proficiency requirements for pilots, that came into effect last week, would not impact on recruitment, Mr Bryant said.<br \/>Students enrolling in the course were taught English from an early age and had a good understanding of the language before arriving, he said.<br \/>The growth in international student numbers has mirrored that of Flight Training Manawatu.<br \/>The school opened 14 years ago as a two-man operation and now has 13 paid flight instructors.<br \/>Mr Bryant said it was at its maximum operation and would stay at its current size in order to maintain the quality of training offered.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/aviation.massey.ac.nz\">Massey University School of Aviation<\/a> general manager Ashok Poduval said the global pilot shortage meant employment opportunities were vast for those with the necessary skills.<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">10\/03\/08 Christian Bonnevie\/Manawatu Standard, New Zealand<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manawatu is reaping the benefits of the booming Indian economy, with large numbers of potential pilots winging their way to<\/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-586","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\/586","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=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}