Alpha Aviation Group Launches New $11M Simulator Facility
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Alpha Aviation Group (AAG) has formally opened its new $11million Simulator Training Centre Expansion Project at the AAG academy in thePhilippines.
The new centre, which forms part of AAG’s wider ongoingexpansion project, will house four additional simulator bays, and includes anew Airbus A320 Version 2.0 Full Flight Simulator (FFS). The acquisition of theA320 simulator means the number of simulators operated by AAG rises to six –the most of any pilot training provider in the country.
Fully ready for training, the FFS comes with full Upset Prevention and Recovery Training (UPRT) capability, and with both A320 New Engine Option (NEO) and Current Engine Option (CEO) capability.
The inauguration of the new facilities saw dignitariesgather for the launch event at AAG in Clark, including Bhanu Choudhrie, founderof Alpha Aviation, and Raul Del Rosario, Philippines Department of Transportationundersecretary.
Currently over 300 cadets around the world study at AAG, forwhom the new facilities will be a huge benefit. The new simulator will alsoenable AAG to increase efforts to tackle gender equality in the commercialaviation industry. Currently, it is estimated just 3 percent of the world’spilots are women, whilst on average 20 percent of AAG’s students are female.
Following the launch of the Simulator Training Centre, AAGwill also later this year be accelerating the construction of the group’s newInternational Training Centre for Aviation Training (AICAT). AICAT is a secondtraining site in the north of the country, which will include a hangar toaccommodate new Cessna aircraft, offices, operations rooms, classrooms anddormitories.
Boeing’s latest Pilot Outlook predicts that the globalaviation industry will require 804,000 more pilots by 2038, with the largestproportion of those – 266,000 – required across Asia-Pacific.
