Japanese Pilots

[Steve76]

Hi guys,

I have a Japanese friend who is looking to learn to fly.
I am trying to find who, where and how he can get instruction....his english isn't completely fluent.
Which schools can do this worldwide and how many students do they put through a year?

Thanks in advance :)

[Nigel Osborn]

There's a very nice Japanese instructor working in Coolangatta if that's of any interest.:confused:

[WLM]

HI Mr Aotearoa...
www.kestrelaviation.com.au seems to specialise in Japanese students. They also have the only Frasca helo simulator in Oz, had a try, quite realistic. Kestrel operate out of Mangalore, Vic. MBZ but have navaids available.
I believe that OZ training is a good starting point.
;) ;)

[ias]

Heli-flight Wairarapa (nz) have two Japanese instructers and are now also based in Auckland as will as Masterton

[pohm1]

PHS at Coolangatta in Queensland also have a Japanese instructor

[nomdepprune]

Steve76: In the June 2002 issue of the AOPA UK magazine General Aviation, Hiroshi Matsuoka wrote an article about flying in Japan. He learned to fly in California. No doubt he would be a useful source of information.
(I'm assuming, perhaps chauvinistically, that he's a he).
Send me a private email with your address and I'll post you a copy of the magazine, and give you the name of someone in UK AOPA who can provide contact details for Hiroshi Matsuoka.

[Helibloke]

Chopperline in Caloundra have two Japanese instructors, Give them a call its a good Flight training school and one of the cheapest around.
Cheers

[vaqueroaero]

Try MI Air in Redlands, CA. It's owned by Masa Mitsutomi, who is Japanese. A great guy and instructor. He has an R22, 300 and a 206B and several fixed wings aswell. Also alot of Japanese students. Phone:1 909 794 1515, fax 1 909 794 8584, email: [email protected] website: www.miair.us Hope that helps.

[Steve76]

Thanks for all the replies team,
I am well on the way to being better informed through your help...
Cheers!
:)

[skidbiter]

just don't send him to NZ, there are enough people with crap english already pissing off ATC and other aircraft, never forget the deleted student sitting in a H300 with the onset of ground resonance. An instructor is yelling lift-off, lift-off and the dumb **** thinks he is saying shutdown,

Not always a language problem. I know of a similar instance in the UK where the owner of a new Robbo sent a pilot with perfect English to collect and deliver his new toy. The pilot wanted a quick famil check-ride before flying away. Seeing a problem, the instructor tried to put the lever down but couldn't overcome the much stronger man trying to pull up. As the heli balanced precariously, the instructor's final plea, before the inevitable, was "If you don't let me get the lever down, we are going to roll over." They did!

[Hilico]

A Mr Blofeld had his headquarters in a volcano in Japan in 1968 and he had at least four Japanese pilots. Sadly they made the mistake of attacking a missile-equipped Wallis autogyro.

[SASless]

Heliport....

The key to all human communication is commonality of definition.

How the concepts get confused is inmaterial.....the result is the same!