Air Service Training (Engineering) Ltd
by Brian Blackburn - Business Gateway Perthshire
A worldwide reputation for professional aeronautical engineering training from the heart of Perthshire.
Next time you are sitting on the plane waiting to go on holiday or that next business trip the engineers who worked on that plane may well have come from your very own back yard. And that could be anywhere in the world as AST in Perth provide professional licensed training to governments and individual airlines around the world.
They have complimented their skills base and are licensed by the Civil Aviation Authority to provide engineering courses in country for other governments and professional airlines. Air Services Training is located at Perth College for academic instruction and lectures and Scone Airport for the hands on side of the engineering training. You will be pleased to hear that all engineers are licensed, rather like pilots and have to have the required certificates and licenses to work on certain engines and certain aircraft systems. Without this licensing system in place engineers are not permitted to carry out work.
AST have strong ambitions to become the first choice of training provider to the world’s airlines and licensed maintenance organisations. Already offering and delivering engineering training to a bewildering array of countries around the world, covering the Far East to the Middle East which includes unusual markets such as like China and Brunei.
Part of their expansion includes the design and provision of specific training courses for foreign engineering training companies which helps drive up exports from Scotland. In addition AST are able to offer split location courses both here in the UK and in other parts of the world. This flexibility with instructors and training materials to gives them the edge over the competition. AST’s competition are well known household names such as British Airways and Rolls Royce, but AST has the advantage because of their flexibility and ingenuity in delivering courses across the globe with designs to suit the customer both now and in the future.
So next time you are on the plane it is worth remember that you are in safe hands and that the engineer that maintained the aircraft may well have been trained at your local college here in Perth by air Services Training (Engineering) Ltd. For further information please visited their web site at,
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