The Association of Aircraft Pilots and Engineers ( NAAPE) has called on the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority ( NCAA) to review its policy on pilot simulator training.
The call contained in a communique signed by it’s General Secretary, comrade Ocheme Aba explained that the status quo is inimical to the holder and currently subjects them to slave-like conditions.
They added that the situation created currently is chaotic and does not allow pilots who may have been relieved of employment for one reason or another secure another employment with the training certificate.
” Besides, this situation has created a chaotic at,I sphere because pilots who have been relieved of employment through redundancy and other means by various airlines are unable to secure other employment opportunities with the simulator training certificate (sim) even as such ‘sim’ are current.”
NAAPE noted that what obtains presently contravenes the periodic renewal policy and helps neither the pilots, airline or the industry.
The pilots and engineers association also appealed to the Federal government to set up a high-powered monitoring committee to ensure that the Executive Order O5, which deals with expatriate quota and local content act is implemented in the aviation sub-sector.
“Having reviewed the content, principle and objectives of Executive Order 05, which enforces the expatriate quota and the Local Content Act for the purpose of assuring that qualified Nigerians are given preference for Nigerian generated employment opportunities, NAAPE finds this order laudable and timely and pledge our support for its full actualization.”
” Consequently, Minister of State, Aviation is called upon to urgently set up a high caliber monitoring committee for the implementation and enforcement of Executive Order 05 in the aviation sub-sector in view of the present prevalence of non-committal to the order within the sector.”
They urged government to ensure that as a body it is carried along as part of any such committee if and when it is constituted.
“Minister of State is also invited to consider the participation of NAAPE in the proposed committee as vital.”
