HYDERABAD: Air India’s Central Training Establishment (CTE) at Hyderabad will be transformed into a deemed aviation university by 2020. Administrators of this training institute have already initiated steps to upgrade CTE into a deemed university and a feasibility study is being done.
“There’s acute shortage of good training institutes to train aspirants in the aviation sector. CTE has excellent track record of six decades in training and state-of-the art infrastructure and training facilities. We want to make optimum utilisation of the available resources and increase the capacity for training. Setting up of a deemed university in the aviation sector is a step in this direction,” said Amitabh Singh, executive director (training) at CTE.
Singh said MBA in aviation, a first-of-its-kind in India, and other courses will be offered through CTE’s deemed university. CTE Hyderabad is spread over 20 acres and it has campuses at Mumbai and Delhi. CTE has six simulators – four Boeing simulators at Mumbai and two Airbus simulators at Hyderabad. CTE also offers cources for cabin crew, aviation security, aircraft engineering, and aviation marketing and management.
“We’ll acquire ATR flight simulator by October with an outlay of Rs 65 crore to train pilots flying ATR flights. We will train Alliance Air pilots through this simulator. Right now pilots are going to foreign nations like Singapore, Bangkok and France for ATR simulator training. Indian pilots can have training in India itself after ATR simulator is made available,” said Amitabh Singh.
CTE traines pilots and staff of other airlines, too. While 150-200 type rated pilots are trained by CTE annually, the management wants to increase the number to 300 over the next one year.