To develop a pilot training school and a flight simulator facility, which would cost around Rs 100 crore and Rs 500 crore respectively, the Tamilnadu government has inked two Memorandums of Understanding with two companies.
Official sources state that the businesses JC Indian Airline Academy and AAG Centre For Aviation Training Private Limited would likely invest in an airstrip in a district in the southern state of Tamil Nadu.
The school would be established by JC Indian Airline Academy, and AAG would put up the flight-simulation facility to further train graduates and prepare them to fly commercial aircraft.
Jonathan Manuel, CEO of JC Indian Airline Academy, said that they would decide on a site after the Director General of Civil Aviation approved the project. Jonathan, who also established the New Zealand Airline Academy in the Oamaru Airport in New Zealand, said their working model would be different from those of other pilot-training schools.
