The opening ceremony was held at a facility in southern Australia where trainees aiming to become pilots of aircraft gathered, and employees of Japanese airline pilot candidates will be training.
Eight pilot candidates of Japan Airlines group company "J-Air" will be trained in Australia.
With the aging of pilots in the Japanese aviation industry and concerns about future talent shortages, J-Air has resumed recruiting pilot candidates for the first time in about 10 years and is training at a facility in the suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia. I decided to do it at.
South Australia is an environment where the aerospace industry is thriving, such as becoming the return point of the Japanese spacecraft "Hayabusa2", and trainees aiming to become pilots gather from each country and develop an international sense.
The opening ceremony was held on the 31st, and CEO Pine Pina, the operating company of the training facility that encouraged eight participants from J-Air, said, "Accepting trainees from countries such as Japan will develop the region internationally. It will lead to that. "
The eight will be trained over the next year or so and aim to obtain the required qualifications.
One of them, Miyuki Nomoto (28), said, "I heard from a female pilot that there is no difference in the ability of men and women in maneuvering, and now I am aiming to become a pilot. I want to spend time. "