Group Of 17 Selected

Mesaba Airlines (Northwest Airlink) has hired 17 graduates of Pan Am International Flight Academy's Career Pilot training program, bringing the number of graduates recently hired by Mesaba to 20. Since the beginning of 2004, the airlines have hired 30 Academy graduates.

The Academy's Career Pilot campuses are located in Phoenix (AZ) and Ft. Pierce (FL) -- each of which houses a CRJ FTD constructed to Level 5 standards, and are exact replicas of the interior of the CRJ aircraft. Each FTD is equipped with a 3-channel, wrap-around projection visual system, which provide day, dusk and nighttime scenarios and detailed visual representations of numerous U.S. airports. Their navigational databases encompass the entire continental U.S. 

"The ACE course and FTDs enable us to accomplish our primary training objective, which is to familiarize students with a glass cockpit environment so that they can effectively function as crewmembers in modern jet aircraft. This is exactly what our Regional Airline customers like Mesaba have been asking for - students who have experience with advanced technology like that which they will encounter in a jet aircraft," said Chuck Glass, Vice President and Executive Director of PAIFA's Career Pilot division."

The Academy operates additional training facilities in Miami, Orlando, Fort Pierce and Vero Beach (FL); Cincinnati (OH); Memphis (TN); Dulles (VA); St. Louis (MO); Minneapolis (MN); Phoenix and Scottsdale (AZ); Beaver Falls (PA); and Livermore (CA).

FMI:  www.panamacademy.com