India-based airline, Vistara, has announced a training agreement with Gurgaon-based Flywings Simulation Technique Centre (FWSTC). The Centre will provide safety and emergency procedures (SEP) practical training for its pilots and cabin crew.
Vistara had previously been sending their pilots and cabin crew to Singapore Airlines HQ for this training. The agreement with FWSTC follows an earlier collaboration for simulator and ground training.
Phee Teik Yeoh, CEO Vistara, said, “We are pleased to announce our partnership with FWSTC and provide an opportunity to our personnel for undertaking their sophisticated training programmes. Vistara places great emphasis on these specialised areas of safety and emergency management. I am positive that our employees will immensely benefit from FWSTC’s practical, in-depth and specialised aviation training solutions to be able to efficiently deliver service excellence.”
Captain Sanjay Mandavia, director, FWSTC, said, “The agreement with Vistara is invaluable and a matter of great pride for us, as Vistara has rigorous training standards for their operating staff and lays great emphasis in the area of training their people at par with globally benchmarked standards. Being the first such training centre in Northern India, we are aiming to reduce the overheads of airlines towards travelling, visa and hotel costs, and to ensure immediate availability of cabin crew for operation. FWSTC provides quality training architecture with modern training devices, an experienced faculty and state-of-art infrastructure to meet global standards of excellence.”
FWSTC has an A-320 emergency exit trainer (door trainer), A-320 CEET (cabin emergency evacuation trainer), smoke and live fire training and water survival training (raft management drill) at their facility in the National Capital Region (NCR), Gurgaon, Haryana.