Flight school
A flight school is an institution that enables interested parties to learn how to operate and operate an aircraft or to deepen their knowledge. The training of the flight students is carried out in theory and practice by flight instructors . The practical handling of the aircraft is learned in flying lessons on training aircraft and in flight simulators .
Flight schools that prepare their flight students for use in a commercial aircraft are called commercial flight schools . Commercial aviation schools in Germany require ATO approval . Flight schools can be economically independent companies, a department of an airline or an association or a state institution (e.g. part of an air force ).
history
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The Armée de l'air ( French Air Force ) is one of the oldest air forces in the world. Its beginnings go back to 1909, formally to 1912, when the newly created Aéronautique Militaire was incorporated into the armed forces. It had 132 planes at the beginning of the First World War . On July 12, 1909, the French War Department procured the first of five aircraft known as "Aérostats", a Wright biplane. From December 1909, the War Ministry sent officers and non-commissioned officers of all branches of the army, but above all engineers and artillerymen, as flight students (élèves-pilotes) to Reims , where the Grande Semaine d'Aviation de la Champagne had taken place in August 1909, and to Bron. First, civil and military pilots were trained uniformly; In 1910 the General Staff introduced a military flight license. Lieutenant Charles de Tricornot de Rose acquired the military flight badge N ° 1 at the Blériot flight school in Pau in south-west France, where the Wright brothers had opened the world's first flight school a year earlier.
The military utility of flying was recognized early in Great Britain: In May 1890 the Royal Engineers' balloon unit was founded. In East Church in the County of Kent which opened British Navy flight school in December 1911th On April 13, 1912, the British military founded the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) by royal order . The RFC included army, navy and reserve units, a central flight school in Upavon , Wiltshire , and the Royal Aircraft Works in Farnborough . On May 13, 1912, the Royal Engineers' balloon unit was subordinated to the RFC.
Austria-Hungary : see kuk aviation troops
Italy : In 1909 the Italian captain Maurizio Mario Moris began to be interested in the new aircraft technology. He obtained a visit from the American aviation pioneer Wilbur Wright , who arrived on April 15, 1909 on the meadow in Centocelle near Rome and carried out 67 flights in the following days, transporting a total of 19 passengers.
In January 1910, the first airfield and the first flight school in Italy were provisionally built here. She trained military and civil pilots. The military facilities there were soon abandoned and instead two new ones were set up in Aviano ( Friuli-Venezia Giulia region ) and Cascina Malpensa ( Lombardy region ). More here .
In Spain , military aviation was launched in Spain on April 2nd, 1910 by royal decree .
The Australian Flying Corps was founded in Australia on October 22, 1912 . After the end of the First World War, this became the Royal Australian Air Force .
In other countries, the beginning of the First World War was the reason for the establishment or expansion of air forces, e.g. B. in Switzerland .
The Wasserkuppe flying school (since 1922 in Germany on the Wasserkuppe ( Rhön )) is probably one of the oldest flying schools in the world that is still in operation today.
Flight schools in the European Union
There are basically two different flight schools in the EASA member states :
- Approved training organization ( English Approved Training Organization ) ATO, which go through an extensive approval process and operate all types of aircraft, especially professional and commercial pilots, e.g. B. Commercial Aviation Schools .
- Declared training organization ( English Declared Training Organization ) DTO, which are allowed to train up to a private pilot license and only in visual flight . The small flight schools of the aviation clubs are named here as an example .
Well-known flight schools and training centers
- German commercial aviation school
- Technical school for pilots
- Lufthansa Flight Training
- Aerotours Flight Training
- Aero-Beta Flight Training
- FFH Southwest German Aviation School
- Association of German Commercial Aviation Schools - VDV
Web links
- Flight schools in Germany from www.flugschule-online.de
Footnotes
- ^ Official establishment of the Australian Flying Corps on raaf.gov.au ( Memento from June 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved July 1, 2013
- ↑ fliegerschule-wasserkuppe.de
- ↑ Less bureaucracy for flight schools, DTO rules have come into force. aerokurier, September 13, 2018, accessed September 25, 2019 .
- ↑ VO (EU) 1178/2011 FCL.10