Mumbai: Pawan Hans, a premier helicopter service provider, and the University of Mumbai signed a memorandum of understanding to facilitate the launch of a dual aviation programme.
The programme, designed to help fill a skills gap in the general civil aviation sector, will start of with 60 students each year.
It will combine the University of Mumbai’s B.Sc. in Aeronautics with an aircraft maintenance engineering (AME) course offered by the Pawan Hans Training Institute (PHTI) and recognised by India’s Directorate of Civil Aviation.
PHTI students are trained to a level of competence in Indian, European, American and Russia aircraft maintenance processes and manufacturing techniques and benefit from Pawan Hans’ helicopter fleet and its knowledge-imparting platforms — something making the course unique in the industry.
The training curriculum will see students exposed to on-the-job training as they work on several different types of helicopters.
Students seeking to be enrolled will be required to purchase inquiry forms either through PHTI or Mumbai University’s Garware Institute of Career Education and Development, at the Kalina Campus.
