Trainees stranded in US as €80k pilot course folds
The trainees — who had paid fees to the Waterford-based Pilot Training Centre of Ireland — were told 10 days ago by the Florida Institute of Technology Aviation they were not allowed into the air again. They were later told FIT’s contract with the training centre was terminated. FIT provides the training courses in association with PTC.
As part of the course, trainees are sent to Florida — where better weather conditions mean better visibility — for 10 months’ training before returning to Dublin, Waterford, or Cambridge in England for another four months before sitting exams.
