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Old 11th Dec 2006, 15:08
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joyrider
 
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Ioan - sorry not heard any more yet.

Discobeast, Starlite were awarded the contract a couple of years ago. As far as I know, in all that time only one student has joined the SAPS airwing from the training programme, and because SOPs require 800 hrs minimum, that student does not yet have command (i.e. can only fly under supervision of another pilot). In the meantime as pilots leave SAPS, they have had to recruit externally while waiting for the new students to come on stream. It may take a lot longer yet - 2 students have pranged aircraft and one student (rumoured to be related to a senior government figure) left after obtaining their comm at taxpayers expense.

Or so I've heard.
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