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Sep 05, 2015 News
Recognizing the need for qualified pilots in Guyana, the Correia Group of Companies, which includes Trans Guyana Airways (TGA), has announced that it will be sending two of its staff to be trained overseas.
The two employees, Shivram Arjune and Al Fredericks, will be heading to Flight Safety Academy in Miami, USA, next month to participate in the company’s annual pilot training programme.
The programme, which will run up to a year, will see the two men returning home after earning certificates in the field of aviation and flight operations.
Once they return, additional training still has to be completed before they are allowed to fly.
So far, four employees attached to the aviation company, have successfully completed training in Miami and have been flying since.
Chief Pilot, Andre Farinha, said, “This batch represents our third group to go up to Flight Safety Academy. It is a prestigious institution for aviation training and we have a long- standing relationship with them.”
He said that he also benefited from the programme in 1991. “There was a delay but the programme was resuscitated four years ago.”
Farinha, who started off his career at the Correia Group of Companies as an accountant, explained that the trainees go through a strict process before they could control an aircraft.
Kaieteur News was told that after the one-year of training in Miami, the trainees will receive their recognized pilot licence. He added that the training does not stop there.
The returning pilots will go through another year of supervision where they will gain experience in the aviation field.
Christopher ‘Kit’ Nascimento, the company’s Public Relations Officer (PRO), said that the training programme was the brain child of Chief Executive Officer, Michael Correia Jr.
“Over 100 flight operations take place out of the Ogle airport everyday…Trans Guyana is one of the two major (airline) operators in the country and Mr. Correia realized that this is becoming an increasing challenge to train pilots,” Nascimento stated.
Also, the PRO explained that to become a pilot is very costly and it can be hard on some individuals, financially.
With this in mind, the company decided to assist some of its employees to make their dreams become a reality.
Kaieteur News was told that staffers attached to the company can apply annually.
Once selected, they will be interviewed by a panel after which an official from the Flight Safety Academy will travel to Guyana and also interview the two persons who were selected.
THIS IDIOT TELLING GUYANA WE HAVE NO SAY IN THE 50% PROFIT SHARING AGREEMENT WE HAVE WITH EXXON.
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