CAE Global Academy Phoenix

CAE Phoenix - Aviation Academy
Motto in English
 Your Worldwide Training Partner of Choice
Type Aviation school
Established 1991 (1991)[1]
Students 400 (in 2011)[2]
Location Mesa, Arizona, United States
33°27′36.48″N 111°43′20.07″W / 33.4601333°N 111.7222417°W / 33.4601333; -111.7222417Coordinates: 33°27′36.48″N 111°43′20.07″W / 33.4601333°N 111.7222417°W / 33.4601333; -111.7222417
Campus Falcon Field Airport
Colours Blue and Grey         
Nickname COAAP
Affiliations CAE
Website cae.com/civil-aviation/training-centres/cae-phoenix-aviation-academy

The CAE Phoenix - Aviation Academy (formerly CAE Oxford Aviation Academy Phoenix, CAE Global Academy Phoenix and Sabena Airline Training Center) (CAE SATC) is an aviation school owned by CAE[3] and located in Mesa[4] on Falcon Field Airport. Former subsidiary of Sabena Flight Academy, the school trains students including those of Air Algérie, SFA, Nationale Luchtvaartschool (NLS), Turkish Airlines, Shenzhen Airlines, EVA Air, British Airways ,cadet pilots of Japan Airlines and cadet pilots of Indigo Airlines and Jet Airways.[5]

History

In 1991, the Belgian government gives to Sabena the École d'aviation civile (aviation civil school) created in 1953. It becomes Belgian Aviation School[6] and then Sabena Air Training Center. The same year, it was decided to carry out practical training in flight to Phoenix in the U.S. because the weather in Arizona allows flights 365 days per year in a high and complex air traffic.[1] Thus the school was created as a subsidiary of Sabena Flight Academy and with the name of Sabena Airline Training Center. In 2008, following the acquisition of the Belgian school by CAE, the United States part is also absorbed.

Equipments

The school has a fleet of 58 aircraft[7] including 1 Diamond DA20-C1, 21 Diamond DA40, 4 Diamond DA42-L360,[8] 5 Piper Seminole, 22 Piper Archer, 2 Piper Arrow,[9] one Beechcraft 90 and 2 Cessna Citation CJ1-CE525. In addition, the school has 6 simulators FNPT2, which two are equipped like a Diamond DA40, two like a Piper Archer, one like a Piper Seminole, and the last one like a Diamond DA42.

Curriculum

In 2011, the school trained 400 pilots per year and offers European (EASA) and American (FAA) courses. The European students are from the CAE Oxford Aviation Academy schools of Oxford, Brussels, Amsterdam and Gondia] and . The European (EASA) courses train British Airways, Air Algérie, Emirates, EasyJet and self-sponsored cadets. The students of the American program are from the airline customers like Shenzhen Airlines, Air China Airlines,[10] IndiGo, Jet Airways and also private customers. The courses approved by the Federal Aviation Administration enable students to obtain the US licenses of Private pilot, Commercial pilot, instrument rating and flight instructor. Also do they allow FAA cadets to get their 14 CFR High-Altitude and High-performance endorsements. The Multi Crew Pilots License (MPL) Program is currently used by Japan Airlines [11].

In February 2017, CAE was voted the best Aviation Training Center in Europe.[12]

Bibliography

  • Olivier Wilmart, De Sabena à Air France, Racine, 2002, 285 p. ( ISBN 2-87386-288-2)
  • Willy Buysse, Marguerite Coppens, Etienne Reunis, Frans Van Humbeek, Michel Wautelet, Sabena, le progrès venait du ciel, Bruxelles, Borgerhoff & Lamberigts, 2011, 224 p. ( ISBN 9789089312525)

See also

References

  1. 1 2 (in French) CAE - SABENA FLIGHT ACADEMY
  2. ↑ (in French) Page relative à SATC Archived 2012-06-26 at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ (in French) Communiqué CAE fait l'acquisition de Sabena Flight Academy pour remédier à la pénurie mondiale de pilotes
  4. ↑ (in French) Page SATC
  5. ↑ Latest news
  6. ↑ (in French) LA BELGIAN AVIATION SCHOOL FORME DES PILOTES DE LIGNE EN VINGT MOIS. APPRENDRE A VOLER AU-DESSUS DU DESERT DE NEVADA ET DU...
  7. ↑ Aircraft
  8. ↑ "Diamond Aircraft :: Sabena Airline Training Center selects Diamond". 2010-12-15. Archived from the original on 2010-12-15. Retrieved 2018-04-02.
  9. ↑ CAE Global Academy Phoenix Fleet
  10. ↑
  11. ↑
  12. ↑ "Which Aviation Training Centre in Europe Was Voted the Best?". Aviation News - Aviation Voice. 2017-02-24. Retrieved 2017-04-27.
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