I think that you will find that the five Warriors are new aircraft and are only now in the process of being shipped from the USA.
It is ground school for the students until CATA gets an AOC as it is no longer reported as working under someone elses AOC.
There is still a staffing problem as the Friday Decemebr 7 Australian advert for grade 1 & 2 ME with TA and ME IFR instructors indicated.
Altogether it indicates that someone at Rex plucked a date of of the air then said to the minions 'make it work'.
The biggest problem is going to be to get suitably qualified instructors prepared to work at Mangalore and who will stay for a reasonable period of time.
There would appear to be a decreasing pool of potential instructors to take up positions at CATA/Rex.
No doubt the best Grade 1 & 2 instructors have been poached by airlines.
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