2024-08-02 05:28:42
The course starts in the fall, they create the Aviation Cathedral
Starting this fall, the Thrace University in Stara Zagora will start training pilots for civil aviation, initially 10 people will be accepted. The new specialty is at the Faculty of Digital and Green Technologies, where the Department of Aviation will be established. This was announced today by the rector of the university Prof. Dr. Dobri Yarkov.
The training has been paid, further the university will apply for a state order in the specialty, which will be supplemented with the training of ground staff and flight attendants. The classes will be held in English, and foreigners will be accepted. Applicants will pay 15,000 euros each for the initial 3-month course, which also includes 47 flight hours. After that, those who have successfully passed the course will study for pilots for another 2 years, the cost of this training is currently 75 thousand euros. After that, those who wish will be able to continue in other specialties to obtain a higher education as well.
Unlike the other specialties of the university, there will be no entrance exams for this one, and students will be admitted after successfully passing special medical and psychological examinations and passing the tests of the European Aviation Safety Agency. The other requirement is that they can afford their tuition and successfully pass the first course of the program.
The university has been preparing for the new specialty for 10 months, foreign experience has been studied, Prof. Yarkov also said. Foreign lecturers can also be brought in, as the training of pilots everywhere in Europe is carried out according to the requirements of the European Aviation Safety Agency. The practical classes will be at a private pilot training school for civil aviation in the Pleven village of Bohot, which has 12 different aircraft. It already has a contract with the university for this. For now, the university will not buy an airplane, but is counting on the opportunity to get the runway of the now defunct Stara Zagora airport to renovate and certify it.
On the site of the airport, the municipality plans to build an economic zone, but the rector believes that the renovated runway would fit perfectly into this zone. It can take off from lighter aircraft, as well as specialize in cargo flights carrying animals.
At a press conference today, it was said that after the COVID-19 pandemic, which also hit aviation, the world is now recovering and around 100,000 pilots are being sought for civil aviation, in Bulgaria – between 50 and 100 people. At the moment, in our country, pilots for civil aviation are being prepared in several private schools, but not in the military school in Dolna Mitropolia, pointed out Valeri Iliev, head of the school in Bohot, where the practical classes of the graduates of the Thrace University will take place.