Wed, Oct 22, 2014
Company Now Spans Three Continents With Opening In Saudi Arabia
Aviation Performance Solutions (APS), an Arizona-based and headquartered global training organization, announced today at NBAA in Orlando the opening of its fourth worldwide training center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This announcement places APS training locations across three main continents in the northern hemisphere – an unprecedented global achievement in the on-airplane upset prevention and recovery training (UPRT) community.
The Saudi Aviation Flight Academy (SAFA) already has it’s new Extra 330LX on-site in Riyadh and their primary APS UPRT instructor, Mr. David Radford, has just completed the 6-week APS On-airplane Upset Instructor Train-the-Trainer program in Arizona. SAFA Professional Pilot UPRT services start on 16 November 2014 where SAFA airline cadets, executives and instructor staff will be the first to receive the APS programs. Mr. Radford is the former Chief of Flight Safety and Standardization Director from Training Squadron SIX in Milton, Florida and former Chief of Navy Air Training in Corpus Christi, Texas with several thousand hours of all-attitude maneuvering experience. Effectively delivered upset recovery training mitigates the loss of control in-flight (LOC-I) threat to air safety through pilot education and practical skill development.
“Joining with APS is in direct alignment with SAFA’s mission to fuel the growth of aviation in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia through our world-class center of excellence for pilot training.” said Captain William Roe, the Managing Director at SAFA, “We have partnered with APS because they have a proven record of providing fully comprehensive and guaranteed life saving skills, to enhance any pilot’s ability to recognize, avoid and recover from virtually any airplane upset, unusual altitude or stall/spin entry flight condition.”
“It is a great honor to welcome SAFA as the exclusive licensed provider of several key APS Upset Prevention and Recovery Training programs in Saudi Arabia” says Paul BJ Ransbury, president of Aviation Performance Solutions, former military pilot, upset recovery instructor and airline pilot, “SAFA is dedicated to producing professional pilots equipped to significantly reduce the risk of loss of control in-flight during licensing training and subsequently throughout their careers”
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