25 November 2024
Just before Pilot Careers Live in Rome last weekend, Italian flight school Aviomar Flight Academy announced it will open a brand-new training centre for airline pilots at Parma International Airport in 2025.
The airport is also known as Giuseppe Verdi Airport, after the Italian opera composer. This new centre is in addition to its existing training base at Urbe Airport, Rome.
The new 2000sqm flight training centre will have the capacity capacity to train more than 150 trainees a year, and will be primarily dedicated to Ryanair Future Flyer Academy cadet training.
It will feature a hangar for the new aircraft fleet and a training centre comprising of flight operations and maintenance offices, classrooms for theoretical instruction and two flight simulators (Diamond DA42 FSTD and Boeing 737-8200 MAX FSTD).
The Flight Training Centre will be powered by solar energy produced by the 1,000sqm of photovoltaic panels embedded in new eco-friendly hangar.
The main courses offered by the new centre will be:
Aviomar pilot cadets with a Diamond DA42 training aircraft. Photo: Aviomar
Captain Michele Marano, General Manager of Aviomar, said, “Parma airport benefits from its strategic location and proximity to key cities for the aviation market such as Milan, Bologna, Brescia and Bergamo – without the associated congestion and with a wide variety of accommodation options.
“It is the ideal location for the establishment of a pilot training centre.”
Aviomar Flight Academy is an EASA-approved training organisation based in Rome, Italy, founded in 1982 by Captain Riccardo Marano.
The academy has a fleet of 23 aircraft, 5 flight simulators and 85 instructors and has two locations in Rome – a flight training base in Rome Urbe city airport with classes, a maintenance hangar, management and flight operations, and a Flight Simulator Centre in Monterotondo, an industrial area just north of Rome.
