The costly flight path: how NZ's aviation schools are trying to keep up

The costly flight path: how NZ's aviation schools are trying to keep up
Aviation education industry advocates said visa and other rules need to change for the sector to take off. (Image: Dean Purcell)
Dileepa Fonseka
Hearing that flight education needs a severe overhaul is not something you want to know just as you are about to take to the skies on a flying lesson. However, this is Ardmore Flying School chief executive Irene King's argument shortly before BusinessDesk hopped into a plane on a pilot training mission. "The basic New Zealand programmes have not been modernised since post-World War II, and so our training requires us to do some quite strange stuff relative to the rest of the world,” King said.But hearing the pilot curri...

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