Flight Training Adelaide wins China Rescue Service contract

Flight Training Adelaide has announced it has signed a new pilot training contract with the China Rescue Service.

Under the new contract, Flight Training Adelaide (FTA) will train another course of China Rescue Service (CRS) cadets from its Parafield Airport base in South Australia.

This signing marks the third course of CRS cadets at FTA who train towards a CASA Commercial Pilot Licence (CPL(H)) under FTA’s Chinese Civil Aviation Approval.

“This is a very important day for FTA,” FTA CEO Pine Pienaar said on signing the new contract with CRS. “The CRS are our biggest helicopter customer to date and we are extremely proud of our association with the CRS. The fact that we will be training our third CRS course reaffirms FTA’s close relationship with the CRS and their appreciation for quality helicopter training.

“CRS and FTA have identified other areas of close cooperation, which in turn will further strengthen this long and prosperous relationship with the CRS.”

FTA is one of the leading professional aviation training providers in the Asia Pacific region. The pilot residential college currently train helicopter and airline pilots using a fleet of 49 aircraft and a team of 140 staff. To date FTA has trained commercial pilots for a number of airlines including including Qantas, Cathay Pacific, China Airlines, Emirates, JAL Express, British Airways and more.

FTA offers training from ab initio level through to CPL, multi-engine CIR, frozen ATPL, multi-crew procedures, jet transition and flying instructor training. For more on FTA click here.