{"id":622,"date":"2008-04-10T08:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T08:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=622"},"modified":"2008-04-10T08:33:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-10T08:33:00","slug":"flight-instructor-training-school-up-and-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2008\/04\/flight-instructor-training-school-up-and-away.html","title":{"rendered":"Flight instructor training school up and away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Northam,_Western_Australia\"><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:180%;\" >N<\/span>ortham<\/a> could well be on the world map of professional pilot training.<br \/>A start has been made on an elite flight training facility dedicated to flight instructor training at Northam aerodrome.<br \/>At the south-eastern corner of the aerodrome two substantial flight training units with their attached sunscreen shelters for four aircraft are in place.<br \/>This is the beginning of a project which aims to have international significance.<br \/>The Australian Flight Instructor Training School is the initiative of retired Indian Air Force Wing Commander Barney Fernandes who has a track record of establishing three major flying colleges across Australia since he migrated here in 1967.<br \/>Barney is acutely aware of the critical pilot shortage in Australia and India and was a major force behind the establishing of flying schools at Jandakot and Merredin.<br \/>He believes the shortage is entirely due to the lack of well-trained career flight instructors.<br \/>The Australian Flight Instructor Training School will offer a course specifically designed for the education and training of professional flight instructors to standard suitable for employment worldwide.<br \/>Training will take place in the specially designed units with each unit able to accommodate 10 trainees and two instructors.<br \/>Also available for training will a full-motion 3D flight simulator.<br \/>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Well-trained pilots are desperately needed for the booming airline industry in India which needs 4500 additional pilots by the end of 2012,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Barney said.<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">10\/04\/08 Avon Valley Advocate, Australia<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northam could well be on the world map of professional pilot training.A start has been made on an elite flight<\/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-622","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\/622","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=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}