Trening i USA - Phoenix

 

Kartet er fra 1967 og er et utsnitt av Williams AFB`s nærområde. Du ser Luke på vestsiden hvor tyskerne sjekket ut på F-104, Casa Grande i sør hvor vi fløy T-41 etc. Som du ser var det utrolig mange flyplasser. Gila Bend i SV var gunnery område hvor F-5 gutta trente. Området er ikke til å kjenne igjen. Jeg besøkte Willy i 2011 og fant nesten ingen ting som minnet om den gamle flyplassen.

 

 Goodyear training center for pilots planned

Citing a growing demand for airline pilots over the next decade, a U.K.-based flight school will invest $7 million to equip and open a training center at Phoenix Goodyear Airport.

The operation will eventually employ up to 60 or 70 people and, within three years, could train 200 pilots a year, said Anthony Petteford, an executive vice president at CTC Aviation Group Ltd.

Future airline-pilot trainees at CTC Aviation's Crew Training Centre in Goodyear will work alongside students at the Airline Training Center Arizona, a Lufthansa German Airlines flight-training company already operating at the southwest Valley airport.

"The primary reason for us coming to Arizona is to take advantage of the wonderful area, and the good weather, plentiful supply of airspace and the availability of staff and people that can work for us there, and (because of) some lower costs," said Petteford, a group director/executive vice president of strategic projects and marketing.

CTC Aviation trains about 2,000 pilots per year and works with more than 50 global airlines, including British Airways, easyJet and Qatar Airways.

"The costs in the United States are lower than we've experienced in our home market," Petteford said.

Phoenix Goodyear Airport is a general-aviation reliever airport for Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport and an aviation flight-training center.

The new operation will start small, with five or six finance and administrative employees. Later, it will employ instructors and others, Petteford said.

The school will begin with six student pilots and in the first year probably will train about 60 to 70 pilots. In three years, the training center should be training about 200 annually, Petteford said.

The crew-training facility will train a growing number of pilots for airlines in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East, while also aiming for high-growth markets in South America, the company says.

The first trainees are scheduled to begin training in April.

$7 million investment

Petteford said students will live at the airport, where 102 bedrooms await them.