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achievement of European Aviation Safety Agency
certification as an Approved Training Organiza- tion.
“NTPS is the first, and still only, test pilot school to achieve this certification to provide qualifying training for test pilots to earn their Eu- ropean Union Test Pilot rating,” explained Brown.
In addition to EASA ATO certification, the NTPS continued an aggressive flight test train- ing schedule. “In 2016, we flew 1,466 sorties for
1,604 flight hours with 1,115 sorties and 1,226 flights dedicated to student training. We have had 339 students attend 55 training courses this year. These students represented 26 countries, making us indeed an international training organization.”
In 2016, NTPS graduated eight students from their Professional Course and have granted 20 Masters Degrees.
“We have also integrated six new aircraft into our fleet. Two King Air C-90s, Agusta 109 and
Airbus EC-145 helicopters — the EC-145 adds glass cockpit capability to our rotary wing stable — and two L-39 jet trainers into our fast jet in- ventory.”
Brown said 2017 promises to remain as busy and challenging as 2016 with a steady load of courses and students. “Having achieved EASA certification, we will be concentrating on the requirements to achieve Western Association of Schools and Colleges.”
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“It was a great year for Wasabi,” shared Elliot Seguin, founder of Wasabi Air Racing. “It was a year of departure testing, race and jet engine test- ing, and overall exciting new airplanes.”
“The year started with the news that (business partner) Justin Gillen was accepted into the So- ciety of Experimental Test Pilots and ended with the air data probe program that we contributed to last winter being picked up by the National Test Pilot School — that is pretty awesome.”
Seguin came to Mojave 10 years ago to im- merse himself in aerospace and to have more access to “cool stuff.” He has flown for several flight test organizations and is currently the chief test pilot for Mooney Aircraft, testing the next generation of sport aircraft.
“One of the cool things Justin and I did this year was the resurrection test flying of Darryl Greenameyer’s famous race plane ‘Race 33,’ in- cluding racing it at Reno where we were the fast- est aircraft of its type. Another recent aggressive project was resurrecting an exotic turbine pow- ered Mustang replica for a customer in Arizona. In general, a very fortunate year for the team.”
Spending a lot of time recently studying stalls, spins and the associated advanced recovery and chase techniques, Wasabi is known for go-
ing above and beyond when it comes to helping companies design, build and test new aircraft and engines for both public and private clients.
“Our recently hardened knowledge of depar- ture testing and Justin’s acceptance to SETP will greatly expand our ability to contribute to future projects,” said Seguin, mentioning the flight test renaissance currently driven by tech companies such as Google and others in the San Francisco Bay area wanting to get into aerospace.
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Trish Mills, vice president of Shared Services for Scaled Composites, said they also had an amazing year of designing, building, and testing new aircraft.
“Throughout this year, we were fortunate enough to see two of our carefully crafted new aircraft types take to the sky for the first time,” said Mills.
Scaled performed its first small Unmanned Air- craft System operations under FAA Part 107 at the California City Airport, which she said was an incredible accomplishment. “We have even more fun planned for 2017 — stay tuned!”
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Taught exclusively by former military flight instructors with many thousands of hours of ex- perience, Flight Research Inc. has exceeded its goals for 2016.
“Not only have our standard courses increased by four times over last year, we also added new courses to our curriculum including our Helicop- ter and High Performance URRT where pilots experience transonic effects, not available in any other program,” explains Vice President of Op- erations, Scott Glaser. “In addition, our national leading Upset Recognition and Recovery Training program continues to grow.”
See MOJAVE, page 20
Capt. Bart Gladysz of the Australian Army gets a lesson from Jim “JB” Brown, chief operations officer and test pilot instructor at the National Test Pilot School in Mojave. Gladysz completed the 12-month Professional Flight Test Engineer Program and graduated Dec. 15. NTPS is the first and only test pilot school certified to provide qualifying training for test pilots to earn their European Union Test Pilot rating.
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