Common use of Pilot Training Clause in Contracts

Pilot Training. The Seller will provide ground training and flight conversion training (type rating) according to the program set up by the Seller’s flight training department in France. Buyer’s trainees will be already proficient helicopter pilots of AS 332 MK1 or MK2 helicopters, preferably MK2, with a minimum of five hundred (500) flight hours on turbine helicopter, and fluent in English. The Seller reserves the right to define a set of minimum competency requirements for any pilot to be trained within this Contract and to refuse any pilot not meeting those requirements or to provide additional training and/or professional translation services, at prevailing rates and dates. The flight conversion training will be given to five (5) trainees per helicopter purchased and will include the following: a) Before the certification of the Full Flight Simulator it is required to contemplate AS332L2 pilots only, For such Pilots already qualified on AS332L2: • a ground course lasting eight (8) working days to be performed in Aberdeen, Scotland; • practical training: five (5) flight hours training in Aberdeen, Scotland on the Buyer’s helicopters, insured & made ready for flight by the Buyers (Buyer responsible for maintenance & fuel). Among all the pilots to be trained, the Buyer is entitled to request that five (5) such pilots, who are necessarily current AS33L2 instructors, to trained with extension of instructor privileges (three (3) additional flight hours training) in order to become EC225 instructors. Such training in Aberdeen, Scotland shall be performed in batches of ten (10) pilots. The Seller will despatch : • for ground training, an instructor pilot for continuous periods of sixteen (16) working days for the instruction of ten Buyer’s pilots (consisting of two (2) courses of five (5) trainees during eight (8) working days each). • for in-flight training, an instructor pilot for continuous periods of twenty (20) working days for the instruction of ten Buyer’s pilots. The Buyer will make available his ten (10) pilots so as to comply with the aforementioned durations. b) After the certification of the Full Flight Simulator Pilots qualified on AS332L2 will be preferred to pilots qualified on AS332UL1. For Pilots already qualified on AS332L2: • a ground course lasting eight (8) working days to be performed in Marignane, France; • practical synthetic training: three (3) flight hours training in Helisim; • practical in flight training: three (3) flight hours in Aberdeen on the Buyer’s helicopters, insured & made ready for flight by the Buyers (Buyer responsible for maintenance & fuel). For Pilots already qualified on AS332UL1: • a ground course lasting ten (10) working days to be performed in Aberdeen; • practical synthetic training : six (6) flight hours training in Helisim; • practical in flight training: three (3) flight hours in Aberdeen on the Buyer’s helicopters, insured & made ready for flight by the Buyers (maintenance & fuel). The in flight training in Aberdeen shall be performed by batches of ten (10) pilots. the Seller will despatch an instructor pilot for continuous periods of twelve (12) working days for the instruction of ten (10) Buyer’s pilots. The Buyer will make available his ten (10) pilots so as to comply with this duration. The schedule and dates of the courses shall be mutually agreed by the Parties no later than six (6) months prior to the training of each batch.