Gov’t asked to protect RP advances in training hub bid

05/06/2008

Clark Field, Pampanga — The government should safeguard the gains the country had achieved in making the Philippines Asia’s flight training capital, an official of the country’s foremost aviation school, Omni Aviation Corp. (OAC) said.

“We need to safeguard this latest economic and educational phenomenon by means of maintaining high standards in aviation training” OAC president and chairman Capt. Gomez said.

“To do this, we need the support of the national government because flight schools are now sprouting like mushrooms just like nursing schools and call centers,” Capt. Gomez explained.

The call was made by the former Boeing 747 pilot amid the sudden increase in the number of flight schools across the country today.

From a lean 28 registered aviation schools in 2007, the Air Transportation Office claims the number now stands at 36 and would hit 40 come June 2008 pending approval of other new applicants brought about by the high demand in aviation-related jobs in the world and local market.

Bulk of the targeted market of new aviation schools are students from India who come in droves as banks back home offer them study-now-pay-later loans from $60,000 to $100,000 payable on installment basis soon after assuming their pre-arranged employment.

Catering to at least 25 different nationalities from the United States, Canada, Great Britain and other countries, OAC offers the most holistic regimen in aviation education in the Philippines today and these are Private Pilot Course, Commercial Pilot Course, Instrument Course, Flight Instructor’s Course and Multi-Engine Course.

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