Canada’s top aviation school coming to India to train pilots

Toronto: A Winnipeg-based aviation school, which is first-choice training facility for Indian students aspiring to become pilots, will soon start its training programme in India where the aviation industry continues to soar. Winnipeg Aviation School, which along with another local Harv’s Air Pilot Training School, has trained hundreds of Indian students as pilots, is on the verge of signing memoranda of understanding (MoUs) with three Indian airports to commence pilot training.
“We have been approached by three state governments with an offer of a land lease of 20 years to start pilot training schools. Winnipeg Aviation Corporation has already been registered in India. We have also bought an aircraft for training in India and set for take-off,” Hemant Shah, Winnipeg Aviation’s managing director for Asia, told IANS.
The mission heaped a huge harvest immediately as Indian students made a beeline for pilot training in Winnipeg.
He said the aviation sector in India will keep booming despite soaring fuel prices. “Not only airlines but also corporate houses face shortage of trained pilots there,” he said.
Shah said there are over 380 corporate-owned airplanes in India, and they are perpetually short of trained pilots.
“Corporate houses offer a great opportunity for newly trained pilots. I always advise Indian students who train as pilots to look to corporate houses for a career…”
24/07/08 Gurmukh Singh/IANS/Thaindian.com, Thailand