An Airline Ab Initio Flight Training Program in the United Arab Emirates (UAE): An Analytical Approach toward Emiratization

<p>The continuous establishment and expansion of UAE airlines has led to a demand for qualified pilots in the region of the Persian Gulf. The shortage of UAE national pilots has compelled the local airlines to employ pilots with foreign nationalities. Though the UAE government has implemented a program within the Emirates to increase the number of nationals in the work force (referred to as Emiratization), there has been little headway within the aviation sector. As a result, this thesis was undertaken to develop an ab initio training program that would increase the percentage of UAE nationals among the UAE airline pilots’ population. The project has fallen within the guidelines of some US voluntary programs, such as the Advanced Qualification Program (AQP) and the FAA/lndustry Training Standards (FITS). The analysis of data acquired from an airline's ab initio program has aided in a new proposal for flight training in the UAE.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science in Aeronautics

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis - Open Access

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Applied Aviation Sciences

Year

2006

Author dc:creator

• Al-Romaithi, Shareef A. K.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Thomas R. Weitzel
• David A. Esser
• Michele Summers

• airlines
• ab initio
• flight training
• United Arab Emirates
• UAE
• Aviation
• Aviation and Space Education

Repository record dc:identifier

https://commons.erau.edu/db-theses/4

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:commons.erau.edu:db-theses-1006