Trading difficulties blamed for stranding of 80 trainee pilots
Trading difficulties are being blamed for the stranding in Florida of 80 trainee Irish pilots, who after forking out €83,000 for training, have been told their course is being halted,
.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 (FIT) they were not allowed into the air again.