Sir - The article "Gravy training" (Flight International, 14-20 December, 1994, P37) carried some inaccurate information.
Taipei, Taiwan-based Taiwan stock-market-listed China Airlines (CAL) has been trying to distance itself from the "flag-carrier" image, which damaged it in almost every air-services agreement talk with countries with no diplomatic ties with Taiwan, which has only a handful of such ties around the world.
The University of North Dakota (UND) is not, nor does it have, a "pilot-training college". The CAL cadets are trained with the UND Aerospace Foundation, which functions independently but with shared UND resources. EVA Air does not have ab initio students at the UND. Interesting hearsay is that "...EVA doesn't go where CAL goes". I find that true in many aspects of EVA's day-to-day operation.
PONBERT HSU
Edinboro, Pennsylvania, USA
Source: Flight International
