Aviation News Item: 00139

12th Nov 2009

Source: ubmaviationnews.com

Germany's FlightCrew Academy and InterCockpit flying schools, combined under the Pilot Training Network umbrella, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Lufthansa Flight Training, will start teaching the practical part of airline transport pilot license (ATPL) training for airline pilots in Vero Beach, Florida, and Rostock-Laage, Germany, in 2010. The company said the decision to relocate from the Croatian city of Zadar was a result of the growing number of flying school students as well as increased infrastructural and operational needs. The first part of flight training under visual flight rules (VFR) will be taught at the FlightSafety Academy at Vero Beach Municipal Airport. In spite of the economic crisis, Pilot Training Network has experienced student growth. Last year, 151 new airline pilot trainees started in both InterCockpit and FlightCrew Academy flying schools. There are now three times more pilot trainees as in the year the company was founded in 2001.

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