It was not long since the ESMA made another move towards bonding an airline with a FTO. With REGIONAL (for ground staff), and now Vistajet (for pilots) they try to achieve the exact thing we were hoping in the previous…

This paper is quite interesting as it relates a successful partnership between a company and a french FTO! Some ground staff trained at the ESMA will be able to attend professional training within REGIONAL and maybe have the opportunity to…

Every pilot has his own “career pathway” you’ll tell me. I’m not saying. Military folks turning into civilian pilots after their service time, helicopter pilots turning into airplane liners’ or business jet pilots, sometimes back and forth, sometimes along with…

After the Chineese people, the Algerian, the Vietnamese; french FTOs are attracting people from Saudi Arabia! Being helicopter contracts (nothing about planes), we pinpoint the figures nonetheless: 250 pilots and 350 technicians… …needed for the country. Let’s hope the plane…

Though with a bit of delay (there was a slot yesterday), here are published the 3 remaining dates for the EODD (ESMA Open Doors Days). Check it out!

The EAMTC: “or European Aviation Maintenance Training Committee, created in 1984 by the air companies KLM, SAS, Swissair and UTA is an international trend-defining organisation regrouping 65 major actors in the aeronautical maintenance formation field in Europe and overseas. Its…

Now that we aren’t in the ATPL certificates loop anymore, it’s with a legitimate amused curiosity that from time to time, we look back to compare what FTOs propose nowadays to what we used to know! Let’s see… Where I…

It looks like the aeronautical sector is going fine overseas, which is a relief! For instance the ESMA now counts in its ranks more than 140 international student pilot corresponding to 11 different nationalities! I’d be curious to know what…

… is doing fine! After hearing from our Chineese friends in the north (the 1st batch that I crossed yesterday doing their 320 rating in the AF’s Orly facilities -hi guys!-, the 2nd that entered the IAAG/EPAG recently), companies from…

Well fellows, for the time you have anything to ask to one of the biggest FTO we have in France, if you hang around Paris or Montpellier till the 26th of this month, you can meet them in person there!…