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Academy is up, up, away
EXCITING TIMES: Ballarat's acting mayor Wayne Rigg announces a new international pilot training academy at the Ballarat Airport.
AN INTERNATIONAL pilot training academy will be established at Ballarat's airport, bringing millions of dollars into the city each year. Up to 600 pilots will be trained annually at the academy in a deal between a subsidiary of the Singapore Government and a Singaporean aviation training company.
The deal was announced at an international aviation conference in Hong Kong last night.
City of Ballarat chief executive officer Richard Hancock, who was in Hong Kong for the announcement, said the project would bring about $7 million to Ballarat annually.
Council's economic development unit, Mr Hancock and deputy mayor Wayne Rigg worked on the project for more than a year.
The University of Ballarat also has a role, potentially providing English language and other academic training for the mostly Asian and Indian trainees.
Mr Hancock said the consortium, ST ATAS, was a deal between Singapore Technologies, an arm of the country's government, and the Aviation Training Academy (Singapore).
An Australian company, Aviation Training Academy of Australia, has been formed and will be based in Ballarat.
He said a worldwide shortage of pilots had encouraged the consortium to consider Ballarat, which has relatively unrestricted airspace and could handle 150 students a quarter.
The academy will also bring around 40 aircraft and flight simulators, worth more than $20 million, into the city and build a $5 million facility on council land at the airport, leased to the consortium for 15 years.
Dozens of jobs would be created, Mr Hancock said.
"From an initially small start, we think over three years this operation will employ about 100 people, 60 per cent local, in terms of instructors and other service and support staff," he said.
"There are so many benefits for everyone; it is a significant investment."
The academy will be rolled out over three to five years, starting with an initial class of 25 Chinese students as early as next month. The pilots will begin training on six aircraft from temporary facilities.
Cr Rigg said the consortium looked around Asia and Australia before choosing Ballarat.
"We have the space and the ability to accommodate them. Not only the airspace and room at the airport, but we can put the students into schools, into accommodation, we can service all their needs." He said council was putting
together a grant application to the State Government's Regional Infrastructure and Development Fund to fund work for the project and other infrastructure identified in an airport masterplan.
Academy is up, up, away
EXCITING TIMES: Ballarat's acting mayor Wayne Rigg announces a new international pilot training academy at the Ballarat Airport.
AN INTERNATIONAL pilot training academy will be established at Ballarat's airport, bringing millions of dollars into the city each year. Up to 600 pilots will be trained annually at the academy in a deal between a subsidiary of the Singapore Government and a Singaporean aviation training company.
The deal was announced at an international aviation conference in Hong Kong last night.
City of Ballarat chief executive officer Richard Hancock, who was in Hong Kong for the announcement, said the project would bring about $7 million to Ballarat annually.
Council's economic development unit, Mr Hancock and deputy mayor Wayne Rigg worked on the project for more than a year.
The University of Ballarat also has a role, potentially providing English language and other academic training for the mostly Asian and Indian trainees.
Mr Hancock said the consortium, ST ATAS, was a deal between Singapore Technologies, an arm of the country's government, and the Aviation Training Academy (Singapore).
An Australian company, Aviation Training Academy of Australia, has been formed and will be based in Ballarat.
He said a worldwide shortage of pilots had encouraged the consortium to consider Ballarat, which has relatively unrestricted airspace and could handle 150 students a quarter.
The academy will also bring around 40 aircraft and flight simulators, worth more than $20 million, into the city and build a $5 million facility on council land at the airport, leased to the consortium for 15 years.
Dozens of jobs would be created, Mr Hancock said.
"From an initially small start, we think over three years this operation will employ about 100 people, 60 per cent local, in terms of instructors and other service and support staff," he said.
"There are so many benefits for everyone; it is a significant investment."
The academy will be rolled out over three to five years, starting with an initial class of 25 Chinese students as early as next month. The pilots will begin training on six aircraft from temporary facilities.
Cr Rigg said the consortium looked around Asia and Australia before choosing Ballarat.
"We have the space and the ability to accommodate them. Not only the airspace and room at the airport, but we can put the students into schools, into accommodation, we can service all their needs." He said council was putting
together a grant application to the State Government's Regional Infrastructure and Development Fund to fund work for the project and other infrastructure identified in an airport masterplan.
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I wonder whether this ad posted on the AFAP website a few months ago is one of the same;
IMHO, Ballarat is a great location for such an establishment. It's close to Avalon for practice ILS's and DME Arrivals as well as Yarrowee for VOR and NDB aid work. Not to mention other nice tourist spots like Soverign Hill and Kryal Castle for international students to visit. And just a 60 minutes drive from the big smoke as well. 
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A new organisation will be commencing operation as flying training organisation very shortly. The HQ will be in Singapore and the flying training schools will be located near Melbourne. The core business will be MPL training.
We will be recruiting personnel shortly. We will require Chief Flight Instructor, Flight Instructors and also Ground Instructors. There will also be an opening for Chief Pilot shortly.
Further detail will be posted when available.
A new organisation will be commencing operation as flying training organisation very shortly. The HQ will be in Singapore and the flying training schools will be located near Melbourne. The core business will be MPL training.
We will be recruiting personnel shortly. We will require Chief Flight Instructor, Flight Instructors and also Ground Instructors. There will also be an opening for Chief Pilot shortly.
Further detail will be posted when available.
Obviously the weather wasn't a consideration!! 
However agree on a good choice of location close to everything yet class G and lots of airports to fly to close by. Wonder if Avalon will get the tower going to handle the influx of ILS practice?
However agree on a good choice of location close to everything yet class G and lots of airports to fly to close by. Wonder if Avalon will get the tower going to handle the influx of ILS practice?
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ST targets Asian pilot training needs
ST Aerospace is diversifying into the commercial pilot training business, with the opening of a joint venture to offer courses in Singapore, Australia and China for the fast-growing Asia-Pacific market.
The partnership with Aviation Training (Singapore), called ST Aviation Training Academy (STATA), will begin operations in October with a capital investment of $5.2 million. It is based at Singapore’s Seletar Airport, which is being redeveloped by the country into a regional aerospace hub.
In its first year, the joint venture aims to train 75 students to commercial pilot licence and instrument rating level. It then plans to recruit 200 students by 2009 to be trained in the multi-crew pilot licence (MPL), which was introduced last November by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO).
“The new MPL provides the aviation industry with an opportunity to train pilots directly for co-pilot duties, allowing a pilot to exercise the privileges of a co-pilot in commercial air transportation on multi-crew aircraft,” says ST Aero. “The MPL training programme offers a significant improvement and relies more on flight simulators to train students from the start to function as crew members on specific types of aircraft they will be operating.”
It adds that while trainees take 24-30 months to graduate under a typical CPL, the MPL course would take only about 12-15 months. The cadet pilots will train on Cessna 172R/172S, Piper PA28R Arrow, Piper PA44 Seminole and Beechcraft King Air C90, and will be licensed to fly the Airbus A320 and Boeing 737.
The first centre will be an ab initio training facility in Australia. The Aviation Training Academy Australia will be established near Ballarat Airport in Victoria State by mid-2008. Next, a flight simulation centre will be set up near Seletar Airport by early 2009.
It will also team up with the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA) International Flight Training Academy in Nanjing, China. STATA and the university will jointly develop the infrastructure and training programmes to train selected undergraduates as pilots. These cadet pilots will undergo part of their training programme in Nanjing before proceeding to the flight training phases in Australia.
Several other groups are also seeking to capitalise on the strong demand for pilots in fast-growing markets such as China and India. Australia’s Qantas Airways, for example, said in June it would establish a new pilot training arm to supply cockpit crew for its own operations as well as for other airlines.
ST Aerospace is diversifying into the commercial pilot training business, with the opening of a joint venture to offer courses in Singapore, Australia and China for the fast-growing Asia-Pacific market.
The partnership with Aviation Training (Singapore), called ST Aviation Training Academy (STATA), will begin operations in October with a capital investment of $5.2 million. It is based at Singapore’s Seletar Airport, which is being redeveloped by the country into a regional aerospace hub.
In its first year, the joint venture aims to train 75 students to commercial pilot licence and instrument rating level. It then plans to recruit 200 students by 2009 to be trained in the multi-crew pilot licence (MPL), which was introduced last November by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO).
“The new MPL provides the aviation industry with an opportunity to train pilots directly for co-pilot duties, allowing a pilot to exercise the privileges of a co-pilot in commercial air transportation on multi-crew aircraft,” says ST Aero. “The MPL training programme offers a significant improvement and relies more on flight simulators to train students from the start to function as crew members on specific types of aircraft they will be operating.”
It adds that while trainees take 24-30 months to graduate under a typical CPL, the MPL course would take only about 12-15 months. The cadet pilots will train on Cessna 172R/172S, Piper PA28R Arrow, Piper PA44 Seminole and Beechcraft King Air C90, and will be licensed to fly the Airbus A320 and Boeing 737.
The first centre will be an ab initio training facility in Australia. The Aviation Training Academy Australia will be established near Ballarat Airport in Victoria State by mid-2008. Next, a flight simulation centre will be set up near Seletar Airport by early 2009.
It will also team up with the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA) International Flight Training Academy in Nanjing, China. STATA and the university will jointly develop the infrastructure and training programmes to train selected undergraduates as pilots. These cadet pilots will undergo part of their training programme in Nanjing before proceeding to the flight training phases in Australia.
Several other groups are also seeking to capitalise on the strong demand for pilots in fast-growing markets such as China and India. Australia’s Qantas Airways, for example, said in June it would establish a new pilot training arm to supply cockpit crew for its own operations as well as for other airlines.
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dude, its in the post on this forum...read this..
"The academy will be rolled out over three to five years, starting with an initial class of 25 Chinese students as early as next month. The pilots will begin training on six aircraft from temporary facilities."
that begs the question of how much does it cost and how to apply etc...
"The academy will be rolled out over three to five years, starting with an initial class of 25 Chinese students as early as next month. The pilots will begin training on six aircraft from temporary facilities."
that begs the question of how much does it cost and how to apply etc...
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dude, its in the post on this forum...read this..
"The academy will be rolled out over three to five years, starting with an initial class of 25 Chinese students as early as next month. The pilots will begin training on six aircraft from temporary facilities."
that begs the question of how much does it cost and how to apply etc...
"The academy will be rolled out over three to five years, starting with an initial class of 25 Chinese students as early as next month. The pilots will begin training on six aircraft from temporary facilities."
that begs the question of how much does it cost and how to apply etc...
Here's the contact from their website;
Singapore Technologies Aerospace Ltd - Corporate
540 Airport Road, Paya Lebar
Singapore 539938
Tel : (65) 6287 1111
Fax : (65) 6280 9713 / (65) 6280 8213
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...........great to see more work for instructors. Guys/girls please keep it tight at BLT with the training. That place with lousy wx quite a lot, a jet/joy ride operator & close prox to AV the training ground for the heavy metal as well as visited by the RFDS's B200's isn't some out of the way place for non local knowledge pilots. Let's work together and enjoy the ride:-)
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........................gotta love BLT "training wheels", no better place than to get real IMC to the deck approaches. Scarey to do yr first there, well done. Try that with a few of the new Asian students in the area all wandering on in to land back from a solo excersise out to the training area or navex where the wx was reasonable when they left but went IMC not long after!
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I had been consulting with the guys at the Ballarat City council and the Vic Government for a year on a similar project for Ballarat. An Aussie home grown business with the profits kept in Australia. Seems others had the same idea. I just couldn't find the dollars and the Cheif Pilots I have in my consortium finally didn't back my idea for pilot training out of Ballarat because of the weather. Anyway, I'm now working with ATAS to find their Chief Pilot, CFI and their instructors. We are developing an appropriate recruitment strategy as I type. [email protected] 0417 115 122. This is a great another great employment opportunity for aviation in Victoria. My passion.
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gassed budgie, love your photo describing student pilots trying to locate their aircraft at BLT 
Murphy was never on my side whenever I would get my students to do a nav to BLT, 3 years of instructing from EN and only ever got there VFR twice during winter.
Murphy was never on my side whenever I would get my students to do a nav to BLT, 3 years of instructing from EN and only ever got there VFR twice during winter.
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...........hey 'gassed' also love yr idea of the BLT apron complete with students, but they do appear to be pale faced!!!!..............yeah, must be the snow right?
....also one doesn't have to be there during winter either to feel similar effects !
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....also one doesn't have to be there during winter either to feel similar effects !Capt wally
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dude, its in the post on this forum...read this..
"The academy will be rolled out over three to five years, starting with an initial class of 25 Chinese students as early as next month. The pilots will begin training on six aircraft from temporary facilities."
that begs the question of how much does it cost and how to apply etc...
"The academy will be rolled out over three to five years, starting with an initial class of 25 Chinese students as early as next month. The pilots will begin training on six aircraft from temporary facilities."
that begs the question of how much does it cost and how to apply etc...