Former CAA head busy planning Taiwan's first flight school

Taipei, June 28 (CNA) Since his retirement one year ago, former Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) head Billy K.C. Chang has been busy with plans for the establishment of Taiwan's first flight school, in a bid to help upgrade the standard of the country's aviation services. Chang, one of the few CAA directors-general in Taiwan who could fly an aircraft, recently established the non-profit Aviation Education Foundation in a first step toward setting up a flight school. His aim is to open the flight school in eastern Taiwan and have the foundation lease a training base at Taitung Airport in Taitung City's Fengnien Borough, he said. Initially the foundation will collaborate with a U.S. aviation school, he said. Instructors from the United States will be hired to work in Taitung to help train local people as flight trainers,... [read full story]                    

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