Demand for air traffic controllers to train here
NewstalkZB | 06:32am Sun 24 Mar 2013
There's strong demand from Middle Eastern and Asian students to train here, as air traffic controllers.
Airways New Zealand has responded by opening a purpose-built training facility in Palmerston North.
Thirty-two students from Saudi Arabia are already taking basic air traffic control training there, and another group from the Saudi Arabia National Guard will start next month.
Airways Head of Training Sharon Cooke says the programme has a good reputation internationally, and has an 80 percent success rate.
The new facility has three aerodrome air traffic control simulators and six radar simulators, all developed with Airways' own Total Control simulator technology.
