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Aviation Flight Academy has been approached by some of the major jet time shares to provide pilots and aircraft to expand their services to their clients. This is in our opinion a win/win situation. Under FAA regulations, graduates of a part 141 school can fly for part 135 charter services if they transition within 60 days of graduation.

Allot of jet aircraft owners often offset the cost of their corporate jets by leasing them to the time shares. The obvious problem is that the owners are passing operational management to the timeshare without meeting the requirements of a part 135 operation. The FAA in turn has  made significant push to resolve this issue as a matter of safety. AFA and ATPI agree that aircraft operational management must be maintained under part 135 by the aircraft owner as part of their lease agreement and is expanding its part 145 operations to include part 135 as part of its operations on all aircraft owned, leased or rented.

Re-currency and compliance with all FAA regulations is a unique service that ATPI and AFA can maintain unlike other organizational flight schools and not just for the pilots but also the aircraft under its control or ownership. The expansion of our facilities is already in process and expect solid relationships with the time-share companies.

ATPI is pleased to announce that it has entered into a fund management agreement with internationally award winning Augentius.  As one of the largest independent private equity investment management firms in the world, Augentius will administer the $263 MUSD private placement as the main point of contact for ATPI’s 506 Reg D offering throughout the lifecycle.

ATPI has provided the proforma’s of both Aviator and Aviation Flight Academy with Augentius providing general account maintenance and bookkeeping, production of annual account and liaising with the appointed auditors, production and dissemination of quarterly reports, tracking of investor records, cash flows and remaining capital commitments, monitor bank accounts for capital contributions and notifications, and of course, closings.

This agreement will allow ATPI to concentrate on its core relationships in aviation and provide a great service to our investors by a well trusted and professional organization servicing PPM’s.

October 18, 2018, marked an important day for Floridians as ATPI and AFA had a very productive meeting with Florida State College. During this meeting we clearly demonstrated that Aviation Flight Academy can provide enhanced flight training to the state college especially in the simulator and jet transition programs. We certainly look forward to adding flight training capabilities as part of FSCJ’s service providers and to the Veterans Administration.

After the close of that meeting, we were also asked for participation in the EAA Young Eagles Program for this region. AFA and ATPI are strong supporters of these vital programs and has offered whatever service is required. We already support the Civil Air Patrol in Jacksonville Florida and will extend the use of our simulators when not booked by our students. We firmly believe that by exposing and supporting these programs give young minds a purpose and a means upon which to achieve their dreams of flight otherwise unobtainable.

CPA’s say “The numbers do not lie”  so does the pilot shortage.. It is a known fact that we are in critical need of commercially rated pilots world wide.  It has never been a better time to be a pilot.

From a Boeing study:

The demand for well-qualified pilots continues to expand.  According to the Boeing Company, “Airlines across the globe are expanding their fleets and flight schedules to satisfy demand generated by global economic expansion.” Over the next 20 years, they project the world’s airlines will need an additional 637,000 trained pilots. North America will need 117,000 pilots; Europe will need 106,000 pilots; Africa will need 24,000 pilots; the Middle East will need 63,000 pilots; Asia Pacific will need 253,000 pilots, Latin America will need 52,000 pilots; and the CIS will need 22,000 pilots.¹

The demand for well-qualified pilots continues to expand.  According to the Boeing Company, “To operate and maintain the airplanes that will be added to the fleet over the next 20 years, the world’s airlines will need an additional 466,650 trained pilots and 596,500 maintenance personnel.”   Furthermore, “North America will need 97,350 pilots; Europe will need 94,800 pilots; Africa will need 13,200 pilots; the Middle East will need 32,700 pilots; Latin America will need 37,000 pilots; and the CIS will need 11,000 pilots.”

Career Opportunities as a “Aviation Flight Academy”-AFA Commercially Rated Pilot

As a Commercially licensed pilot and “AFA” graduate, you’ll have the ability to pilot different types of aircraft and work in a variety of settings and occupations.  Examples include:

The pay is well above the past rates as PILOTS ARE IN DEMAND! Senior captains flying large airplanes such as a Boeing 757/747/767 can earn as much as $300,000 per year with excellent benefits flying 20 days per month. Airline captains with ten years of experience can easily make $150,000 annually at major airlines and $80,000 per year at regional airlines with excellent benefit packages. It is a Pilots market… take advantage of it now!!!

We invite you to start your pilot pathway at Aviation Flight Academy today by completing the Request Information Form in our web site      www.AviationTPI.com

NBAA Supports Industry Efforts to Confront Aviation Workforce Challenges

Sept. 14, 2018

“The aviation community has always come together to tackle its most pressing challenges, and today we need to do it again,” FAA Acting Administration Dan Elwell said at the start of the agency’s Sept. 13 “Aviation Workforce Symposium: Ensuring America’s Pilot & Mechanic Supply.”

“There needs to be a common understanding of the gravity and urgency of the situation,” he added. “We have a diminishing supply of qualified pilots and mechanics and technicians.”

More than 100 aviation professionals, representing government, industry, advocacy groups and all aspects of the aviation ecosystem gathered in Washington, DC, to not only discuss the shared problem, but begin brainstorming solutions.

By 2021, the country will be about 5,000 pilots short, and by 2026 that number will increase to about 15,000 pilots, leaving 1,500 aircraft inoperable, noted panelist Marty Lenss, from Eastern Iowa Airport and the American Association of Airport Executives. Dr. Heather Wilson, secretary of the Air Force, added that at the end of the last fiscal year, the Air Force was 2,000 pilots short.

“This issue goes far beyond what the government alone can do,” stressed keynote speaker and Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao. “It is incumbent upon all of us to find solutions. This summit was called to bring attention to this critical issue and to convene stakeholders who are experts, to create a path forward, so that we can work together to address this very important issue, comprehensively and collaboratively.”

Reaching the Next Generation of Aviation Professionals

“The aviation workforce is underrepresented when it comes to women and minorities,” Wilson noted. “There’s a whole segment of our population that has not yet been touched and inspired by the bug to fly. There’s a deep talent pool out there that can’t afford the ticket to the show, not even in the nosebleed section.”

Frank Slazer, from the Aerospace Industries Association, said his group is working to create more apprenticeship programs, so young people are learning on the job, thereby reducing some of the financial burden that can accompany the pursuit of a degree. He also discussed reaching out to middle schoolers and encouraging them to choose the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, or “STEM” classes in high school that will allow them to continue an aviation education into college.

NBAA Senior Director of Educational Strategy Jo Damato, CAM, who attended the symposium, said the event drove home the point that everyone must work together on a solution.

“There are a number of paths people can take once they enter this workforce, but this ecosystem that we all are responsible for is why NBAA needs to be a part of the solution,” she said, adding that the industry must be creative in reaching out to young people, and connect with them in ways different than outreach efforts aimed at previous generations.

NBAA, she said, will continue working with regional groups to get the word out specifically about the opportunities available in business aviation by going into high schools and universities, as well as flight schools and technical schools. The association, she added, will continue to work with these local groups on holding career days and other events to showcase the industry, such as a recent event hosted by the Northern California Business Aviation Association, in which NBAA representatives participated.

Damato also pointed to NBAA’s Workforce Summit, hosted this summer in Washington, DC. “We already know what we do well to encourage career development, including scholarships, internships and mentoring, and we must find a way to further the awareness of those and other initiatives, to show business aviation as a viable and exciting career path,” she said. Read more about the Workforce Summit.

At the recent NBAA Regional Forum in San Jose, CA, NBAA President and CEO Ed Bolen also spoke of the issue and asked industry stakeholders to do their part to strengthen the workforce.

“The future of business aviation looks bright, and technologies on the horizon make this an exciting time to be in the industry, but only if we meet challenges head on and work together to make a difference,” Bolen said. “Can you imagine a better place to make your career than business aviation? Our industry is uniquely interesting, uniquely challenging and in a lot of ways, uniquely inspiring. That’s who we are.”