Qantas Opens Pilot Training Facility at Brisbane Airport

(02 Feb 2022)
Qantas has opened a brand new pilot coaching facility
at Brisbane Airport.

With the capability to coach as much as 900 pilots a
12 months, the Qantas
Group Flight Training Centre is house to 4 plane simulators – Boeing 737, 767F and 787 Dreamliner and
Dash-8 Q400 – in addition to a Q400 flight coaching machine, all used
by pilots to finish their 4 annual periods of simulator
coaching and specialised coaching when transferring to a brand new plane
kind.

The simulators had been relocated from Sydney to make
manner for a significant street venture and had been dismantled, transported by
street and re-installed on the new Brisbane centre over a four-month
interval.

 

Qantas’ new facility at Brisbane Airport can prepare as much as 900 pilots a 12 months

 

With nearly all of Qantas’ pilots primarily based within the
three jap states, the Brisbane centre, together with expanded
services in Melbourne and a brand new flight coaching centre to be
developed in Sydney, will present important price financial savings by means of
coaching pilots at their house base.

The Brisbane facility will present reoccurring
coaching for the airline’s 500-plus Queensland-based pilots as
nicely as pilots from different states and lots of the new pilots
anticipated to hitch the Qantas Group within the years to return.

The facility additionally has a industrial dimension to it
and might be open to different airways within the Asia Pacific area to
prepare newly recruited pilots, upskill pilots to new plane varieties
and permit skilled pilots to keep up their ongoing coaching.

 “Qantas’ very first flying school was set up in
1927 in a tin shed at Eagle Farm, so we’ve clearly come a long way
since then,” mentioned Qantas Group CEO, Alan Joyce. “Having simulators based in Brisbane is great news
for our Queensland-based pilots and is a clear vote of confidence
in the long term future of aviation in this country despite the
challenges we’ve faced recently. We have a Pilot Training Academy in Toowoomba
that is providing a pilot pipeline to Qantas Group and other
airlines, and some of the graduates have already secured pilot
positions with QantasLink. They will complete the simulator phase
of their training program at the new Queensland facility.”

The coaching facility might be staffed by 33
staff, together with 18 new roles for extremely expert simulator
instructors, simulator technicians and help workers.

Construction of the brand new facility commenced in March 2021 and the 4
simulators and flight coaching machine at the moment are lively 24 hour a
day, with as much as 50 pilots and trainers utilizing the centre every day.