Parents of trainee pilots: We’ve been left high and dry

Parents of up to 80 trainee pilots, who lost up to €80,000 each when a Waterford pilot training college went bust, are livid at how the Government rallied to help out language school students yet left their children high and dry.

It has been two years since the Pilot Training College in Waterford went bust but the anger hasn’t subsided among parents, many of whom are still repaying loans they borrowed to fund training that was never completed.

They argue that the State had a greater responsibility to the PTC students than the foreign language students as the Irish Aviation Authority was obliged to ensure PTC had sufficient funds to complete all training.