British Aerospace has restructured its training services and products into a new corporate entity, to be named British Aerospace Training Services. The group will incorporate the company's training centres at Prestwick, Scotland, and Tamworth, Australia, as well as its interests in Singapore-based Asia Pacific Training and Simulation, North Sea Range, and US simulator manufacturer Reflectone.
BAe has recruited managing director Harry Bradford, former chief executive of Hawker de Havilland's Australian Aviation College. The move is likely to result in re-alignment of pilot-cadet training patterns, with more ab initio training in Australia and a heightened role in advanced training for the UK, he says.
BAe has begun to package cadet-training programmes which would exploit the Australian and UK centres, says Brian Parsons of BAe Flight Training (Australasia). He adds: "We believe that Tamworth, because of weather and air traffic, has an ideal ab initio training environment. Prestwick obviously provides challenging weather and sophisticated air traffic control ."
Source: Flight International
