Optional aeronautical training ENSICA

Organization

The Optional Aeronautical Training of the Ensica curriculum is divided into 2 parts:

• The first part of the course is theoretical and consists of 25 hours of classes spread out from September to October.
  It ends with a selection test that allows students to choose their activity among 4 proposals: motor flight (15 places), gliding (15 places), parachuting (20 places) and paragliding (16 places).
• A second practical part carried out within the ISAE for motor flight and in 3 specialized centers for the 3 other disciplines.
  The number of students enrolled in these subsidized activities is, at the beginning of the year, about 140.
  Excluding powered flight, the cost of each activity is shared half by the student and half by ISAE.

The activity in 2010 was relatively sustained. There were 33 certificates in all disciplines.
About a hundred students practiced regularly.
This high level of participation is likely to be even higher in 2011 given the greater participation of students in the selection test that has just taken place (75 in 2010 against 65 in 2009).

Report on air activities 2010: ENSICA curriculum

• Motorized flight at Lasbordes: 35 students registered, 9 students licensed as private pilot light aircraft (PPL),
• Gliding : 15 regular pilots, 285 hours of flight, 20 initiation flights, 8 certificates,
• Parachuting in Pamiers : 30 regular participants, 767 jumps out of training, 15 initiation jumps, 15 certificates delivered
• Paragliding : 13 regular pilots, 69 training days, 1 certificate issued