The Niger Government has
spent N80 million on training 10 pilots at the Nigerian College of
Aviation Technology's facilities at the Minna Airport, the state's
Commissioner for Transportation, Alhaji Abubakar Mohammad, said on
Sunday.
Mohammad made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Minna.
"The trainee pilots had completed their ground training preparatory to their flying training.
"We
are spending N8 million each for the training of each pilot, who had
concluded their ground training, using the simulators in Minna and the
training facilities in Zaria.
"The trainee pilots have been
joined by three students from Benue, one each from Kaduna and Kano,
bringing the total number of trainee pilots at the NCAT Minna Annex to
15 trainee pilots," Mohammad said.
According to him, the college
is expected to deploy four of its aircraft for the training of the
pilots, who had to earn a credit of 15 hours flying with instructors and
another 15 hours earned credit of solo flying to complete the first
phase of their training.
He said the college would give the
successful students the Private Pilot License (PPL) but added that the
students needed to attain 35 hours of credit earned flying before being
given the Commerce Pilot License(CPL).
Mohammad said the college's location in Minna would not affect the quality of instructions given to the trainee pilots.
"It
is 18 months rigorous training, anyone that did not earn the required
credit flying hours will be dropped or asked to repeat.
He said
the State Government was committed to the training of pilots at the
Minna annex and that it would be sponsoring another set of students in
line with its vision of becoming the third most developed state by year
2020.
He said that NCAT had been allocated a large parcel of land for the construction of its annex in Minna.
The
commissioner explained that the land was allocated to the college so as
to enable the indigenes to have the opportunity of receiving training
as pilots.
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