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Center Air Pilot Academy
Roskilde, September 3rd, 2007
Graduation of first ever MPL trained Pilots in Europe
Today marks a historic event in European aviation as the first group of MPL trained pilots graduate from Center Air Pilot Academy in Roskilde, Denmark.
What began as a strategic partnership three years ago between Center Air Pilot Academy and the Scandinavian low cost carrier Sterling Airlines, culminates today with the graduation of the first group of pilots trained after the new MPL (Multi-crew Pilot License) training curriculum.
“We are obviously highly exited about having achieved this milestone in our work to modernize the way commercial pilot training is being executed” says Chief Ground Instructor from Center Air Pilot Academy, Anna Kjær, and she continues “The dramatically increasing demand for commercial pilots all over the world pushes both the airlines and the training organizations to innovate and develop the training procedures inside a framework of airline safety to sustain the constant growth in the airline sector.”
Also, from the side of the airlines there is enthusiasm on the evolution of the MPL training system.
Center Air Pilot Academy’s partner in the project, Sterling Airlines, will hire the newly graduated MPL pilots, and Flight Operations Director Claus Gammelgaard says “We sat down three years ago to discuss how to mitigate the potential shortfall in pilot availability. Already back then we were seeing the signs, and he continues “The MPL training is a revolution in the airlines and together with the Training Organization can work to secure a steady flow of highly qualified pilots to enter the growth of airlines in Europe. Moreover, as we have a very serious focus on flight safety it is utmost important that we as an airline cooperate with Center Air Pilot Academy on the development of the MPL training in order to secure that our safety standards are met. It is, therefore, with great confidence that we see the graduation of this first group of excellent pilots”
Center Air Pilot Academy has already more than 30 MPL pilots in training and is seeing a very high level of interest from future potential students for the MPL programme.
Our goal is to establish quality pilot provisioning to the airline industry says CEO at Center Air Pilot Academy Jens Kristian Frost
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