Pilots face great challenges

Employment in the aviation sector is at risk.
Job-stability is not guaranteed and the costs of maintaining the qualifications of pilots can be high.
The current situation demands an open perspective towards re-orientation for aviation professionals.
It is urgent to take action in time to preserve one's chances on a succesfull career in- or outside of aviation.

The barriers that aviation professionals encounter today towards career re-oriëntation are individually different and depend on many factors such as:

• qualifications and experience
  
• current job-situation and perspective
  
• financial and social situation
  
• health
  
• educational background
  
• geographical location
  
• motivation
  
• luck
  

Our goals

We aim to provide several solutions to overcome these barriers such as:

1. Set up education for employment in which your skills as a pilot are recognized and used.
   
2. Convert your license and experience into a diploma through a transition program.
   
3. Propose measures that help you to maintain your type-rating when it is not used during a longer period.
   

1. Education is the key

The project started on september 1st 2020 and will run for 28 months.
It is funded by the European Social Fund (Flanders).
Several partners work together to make it happen.
We're currently in phase 1 where we collect data from the field.
This data will be analised and the results will be published on this site.

In later phases we will start educational projects that pilots can enlist in to acquire qualifications that will open employment opportunities outside aviation.

2. Valorise your license through a diploma

We analise and index the studies that you followed and exams that you passed during pilot training. This allows us to determine what is needed to meet the requirements of a bachelor and/or master diploma.

3. Maintain your critical ratings

We will map the licenses and ratings that are currently used. This will enable us to develop and propose measures that help you to maintain your class/type-rating when it is not used during a longer period such as during (temporary) re-orientation.