Haha... fund from the government..? Ya right. As launchpad said, the government even makes interest on the loans... but i wouldn't be too surprised if the "loans" were forgiven being that they likely go to the VIPs' kids. It would have made more sense to require candidates for the loan to already have a PPL... those are the kids with the true passion to fly. Or better yet, allow each operator to contribute to their own fund and when it has a certain anount $$ in it... sponsor their own exceptional ground staff worker, who is perhaps a dispatcher and has been with the company for a while. And regarding Precision, they oughta be the biggest contributor but they really just giving peanuts compared to operator size. They should be sponsoring local pilots out of the TZ pilot's association (the Kibasa Klub) for their ATR ratings.... thats all those chaps wanna fly anyway... and it's easier to train a freshie into an ATR over a 206... no doubt about it.