Managing Director of
Mish Aviation, Ibrahim Mshelia has said that manpower development in the
aviation sector was one of the key factors to improving aviation in
Nigeria and Africa as a whole.
Mshelia made this known in his
presentation/career talk,’ The Exciting World of Aviation’ to children
of Olashore International School, Iloko, Osun state
According to
the aviator who has had three decades in the industry, 63 per cent of
captains flying today would be retired in the next five years, so
massive training of core aviation manpower was needed in the country.
He
said that for now, government was concentrating on upgrading the
airports and other infrastructure and was doing extremely well and asked
state governments to also take the bull by the horn and train at least
20 students from each state as it will go a long way to ameliorate the
problem.
He explained that in Nigeria, the plum jobs of piloting
and engineering was fast becoming the one for expatriates alone and said
that the trend could be changed if children become more interested in
aviation to want to delve into the field.
He further said the
civil aviation involved manufacturing of aircraft and airline operations
but in Africa there was no aircraft production which limits the field
to airline operations, which he said was also lucrative.
Mshelia told
the students that the professional fields they could enter in aviation
included piloting, engineering, air traffic controlling and even
becoming cabin executives.
These fields, he explained, opened a wide variation of opportunities to enthusiasts who want to go into the field.
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