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NetJets Europe starts ab initio training

NetJets Europe is recruiting candidates for a new ab initio pilot training program that it hopes could provide its growing fractional ownership fleet with

By AIN Staff • AIN Staff

March 8, 2007

NetJets Europe is recruiting candidates for a new ab initio pilot training program that it hopes could provide its growing fractional ownership fleet with up to 45 new first officers each year. The part-sponsored program will be run by the UK’s Oxford Aviation Training (OAT), with the first 17-month courses due to start in May.
Trainees will complete OAT’s standard ab initio ATPL course, which will be supplemented by about two weeks of NetJets-mandated additional instruction to cover unusual-attitude training and VFR operations at certain demanding airports. After the course, the new ATPL holders will do another six months of training with NetJets before being rostered as line pilots with the company.

According to the OAT Web site, the total cost of the ab initio ATPL will be approximately £75,000 ($145,000). This includes the cost of training, tests and accommodation.

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