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Becoming airline
pilot in 18 months: it's the chance offered by Alitalia Skymaster, the
Alitalia's Flight School.
The
proposal of the national airline is directed to young, both sexes, from 18 to
28 years old (27 year old for not flight experienced young) possessing a high
school degree, and having performed military service or exempt from.
The
first course Skymaster for students without any diploma ("Ab
Initio") "flied off " on 11th December last, at the Pilots
Training Centre at Fiumicino, with 24 young selected among hundreds that
submitted their applications.
Skymaster
will allow these young achieving aeroplanes commercial pilot certificate and
the qualification to practice as co-pilots on passenger aircrafts, with a 18
months average duration, articulated in several phases, alternating classroom
lessons and practice on flight simulators and in flying; students will move
among the seats of Fiumicino, of a basic flight school and Alghero Fertilia.
The "Ab
Initio" course, by giving a homogenous and coherent training along all
its phases, allows achieving the commercial pilot certification in 200 flight
hours, instead of 250 foreseen by law.
The
expenditure for the complete course "Ab Initio" is at least 130
million lire plus VAT, and it's on disposal an subsidized financing plan
settle out by a main bank to pay this amount.
Alitalia
Skymaster starter off in the past months some courses for students having
already a commercial pilot certificate ("Quick Entry"). This case
the duration is 8 months and the expenditure is 90 millions plus VAT.
Attendance
to courses Skymaster does not involve any obligation by the Alitalia Company
to constitute a subordinate job relationship, nevertheless the "holders
of a diploma" will form a list of professionally trained persons, where
the Alitalia group and other airlines companies can get when necessary.
The
central role within the whole training process it's played by the Flying
School Alitalia in Alghero, where students will achieve the commercial pilot
certificate for twin-engined planes (CPL/IR) training on the sophisticated
flight simulators PA-42 and the three Piper Cheyenne with advanced electronic
equipment similar to the one on board of the new passenger aircrafts.
Over
the beginning of the activity up today, the flying school of Alghero has
produced nearly 1.200 pilots (558 "ab initio"), of which 300 on
demand by external bodies, as the Italian Airforce, Italian Army, the Flying
Assistance enterprise, the Region Sardinia, the Kuwait Air Force, foreign
trading companies and privates.
The school
infrastructures include the hangar for airplanes' shelter, the maintenance
workshop, the spare parts storehouse, technical rooms, administrative
offices, mess and several classrooms, some equipment for the training to use the
radiotelephony in English.
The
school rises in the Alghero Fertilia airport district, nearly 10 kilometres
far from town, in a meteorological and geographic situation specially
favouring the flight activity and at the same time it is one of the most important
economic and employment situations of the area.
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