Government discards pilot recruitment fees<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Indonesian airlines no longer have to pay
\ngovernment charges when recruiting pilots who graduated from the
\nstate-owned Aviation Training School in Curug, West Java,
\nMinister of Transportation Haryanto Dhanutirto said early this
\nweek.<\/p>\n
Haryanto said the airlines preferred recruiting pilots who had
\ngraduated overseas to the school's graduates because they had had
\nto pay the school between Rp 60 million (US$25,400) and Rp 80
\nmillion a pilot, while they had paid nothing to recruit pilots
\nwho graduated overseas.<\/p>\n
The minister said the government had eliminated the charge to
\npromote recruitment of the school's graduates.<\/p>\n
"The government is now drafting a rule on recruitment of the
\nschool's graduates," he said.<\/p>\n
The pilots who had graduated from the school were no less
\nskillful than those who had graduated overseas, he said.<\/p>\n
The pilots trained for two years at the school, while those at
\na popular pilot school in California, United States, only trained
\nfor between four months and a year.<\/p>\n
"I think the standard of education at the training school in
\nCurug is as good, if not better," he said.<\/p>\n
Haryanto said that from this year all pilots graduating
\noverseas would be tested at the training school in Curug before
\nthey could get a license.<\/p>\n
The school in Curug graduates 60 pilots a year and plans to
\nincrease this to between 120 and 200 a year, making it the
\nbiggest training school for pilots in the region.<\/p>\n
The school recently got 70 training aircraft, including TB-10,
\nTBN-70, Baron B58 and MD3 aircraft. (jsk)<\/p>",
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