About the Project:
Youth from the Ethiopian community, ages 15-16, are selected to participate in the aviation and pilots course based on scholastic achievement and personal abilities from schools in and around Rishon LeZion, Kfar Saba, Ramat Hasharon, Ness Ziona, Ramle, Yavne and other towns.
Over a three-year period the participants study the following professions and subjects:
Phase I: Aerodynamics, meteorology, navigation, pilot procedure, flight lessons in a simulator.
Phase II: Practical flying lessons, up to and including obtaining a pilot’s license.
The cost of training a flight student up to receiving a pilot’s license is about NIS 60,000.
We are proud to say that recently four of our course graduates successfully completed the program, and received a civilian pilot’s license from the Civil Aviation Authority of Israel.