Aviation school set up in Clark

CLARK FREEPORT, Pampanga — The first aviation maintenance technology school in the country will open in the Clark Economic Zone.

            The school will be run by the Jocson College Inc., the only aviation and training school catering to flight operation and aircraft maintenance.

            Jocson College has hired German instructors through its partnership with LTTP (Lufthansa Technique Training Philippines).

            Last week, a memorandum of agreement (MOA) was signed by Lufthansa Technical Training General Manager Jochen Harm and Jocson College Vice President Ma. FelizaJocson for LTTP to train students in aeronautics.

            The signing was witnessed by LTTP Manager for Marketing and Sales Jerome Asiddao, Professor Jose Casi, training director of Jocson College, and Bryan Mathew Nepomuceno, legal counsel of Jocson College.

            Jocson said the school’s training program will draw from LTTP’s 50 years of maintenance expertise and technology.

She said quality and safety are foremost when it comes to air services in any part of the world. That is why all airlines are mandated by their governmental airworthiness agencies to have a Quality Assurance and Control as well as Ground and Flight Safety Organization.

            This will not only ensure satisfactory services but also a gratifying experience for an air traveler, Jocson said.

Nepomuceno said Jocson College is an institution that has gone beyond just teaching the basics of aircraft maintenance required by the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) had has adopted more sophisticated learning techniques of the European Community.

            He guaranteed that the school’s graduates would be considered by at least 30 nations as potentials for employment.

            The institution is now in the process of purchasing a fully functional airplane. It is eyeing a Boeing 727 with three operational jet engines, an auxiliary power unit and working hydraulics, air-conditioning, landing gears, flight controls, instruments, radios, brakes and steering.