uTrainingTAAG1000

MS Aviation and Enlightened Development team-up to provide Ultimate Training, Garmin G-1000 course. Now you can Master Glass Cockpit flying on your iPhone/iPad while you’re hanging out at home or on the couch

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Please update your bookmarks: Europe-American Aviation changed the domain name from eaa-fly.com to the new domain name skystead.com.

Please use in the future only the new domain www.skystead.com

Also, if you’ve subscribed to the Europe-American Aviation RSS feed for our news updates, please update the feed url to this new address:

http://www.skystead.com/news/files/E-A_rss.xml

Thanks!

Your Europe-American Aviation Team

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Nice article by the Florida Weekly about Europe-American Aviation



http://www.skystead.com/pdf/Florida_Weekly_01_2010.pdf

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See our new 30 second TV Ad in our Gallery!



There you can also check out our new 3 minute infomercial!

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Private Pilot Certificate — Accept NO Limits

Course Price $5,975
Fees Discount $ 500
Package $5,475

Become a Certified Private Pilot in our state-of-the-art Diamond DA-20 aircraft and enjoy the many benefits of aviation without the limitations.

Why limit yourself to flying old, out-dated aircraft?

At Europe-American Aviation you can train in one of the most modern fleets in North America. Come and train in our Diamond aircraft that are less than 3 years old and experience the best training aircraft available today.

Why limit yourself to receiving training from inexperienced flight instructors?

All Europe-American instructors have achieved the FAA’s highest instructor designation as Gold Seal Flight Instructors. In fact, our 1st time pass rate for students is over 90% and one of the highest in North America. In addition, we are one of a few schools selected to train FAA Inspectors from around the country throughout the year.

Earning your Private Pilot Certificate enables you to experience the world from a new perspective. Imagine flying to Key West for lunch or spending a weekend in St. Augustine with friends without having to drive. You will have mastered the fundamentals of airmanship, navigation, and communication. As a result, you will be granted the privilege to fly virtually anywhere with your friends or family.

With this program you can fulfill your aviation dreams

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Transition to G1000 Glass Cockpit

New, convenient way to learn the world’s most popular glass cockpit!


Why limit yourself to flying out-dated aircraft with 30 year old instruments?

Keep up with the times with our new Garmin G1000. Glass Panel transition, flight training course for VFR/IFR pilots. This 2 to 3 day, FAA approved Part 141 flight training course with G1000 expert flight in- structors will give you the knowledge and skills necessary to fly these tech- nologically advanced aircraft with confidence.

Why limit your next BFR/IPC to flying in out-dated aircraft?

Use this course to enhance your piloting skills and at the same time receive a fresh BFR/IPC. Fly our modern Diamond Aircraft fleet and experience the state-of-the-art in aviation.

Several years ago, very few aircraft shipped with glass cockpits. Now, nearly 100% of all new GA aircraft ship with glass cockpits, most of them Garmin G1000. Whether you are an owner, potential owner, or renter you will want to become an expert at flying these exciting new aircraft and benefit from their enhanced safety.

15% OFF Any Additional Training or Rentals

Get your BFR/IPC with this program, while you get your TAA transition training in these Diamond Aircraft

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Europe-American is very happy to announce that helicopter training is now being offered in conjunction with Ocean Helicopters at Naples Airport.

EAA has offered “world class” fixed wing training for many years in Naples and now welcomes Ocean Helicopters and their “premier” helicopter training to the west coast of Florida.

Ocean Helicopters has brought to Naples a Bell Jet Ranger and Schweizer 300 CBI and can accommodate all aspects of flight training from Private to ATP, photo flights and sight seeing over the beautiful west Florida coastline.

We are very happy to have a great partner in Ocean Helicopters, EAA and Oceans are "Owner Operated" as has the same high standards in operation, maintenance, safety and service.

Ocean Helicopters and Europe-American Aviation are bringing a passion and a wealth of knowledge together to make each student or clients experience one that can not be topped!

We invite all aviation enthusiast or those who would just love to try a helicopter ride, come visit us!

EAA offers all licenses and ratings for helicopters. Starting at an initial Private Pilot all the way through to Airline Transport Pilot.

Please note that Oceans supplies the Helicopters and CFI's but EAA administers and facilitates the training, to provide you fixed and rotary wing training solutions out of one hand.

Our first customer by the way, is the FAA, who now not only trains their safety inspectors on fixed wing aircraft, but also on Helicopters! We are actually quite proud of this achievement!

Tags: Helicopter, Training

Naples Daily News has a great article about Europe-American Aviation including some cool photos:

Naples-based aviation company survives post-9/11 turbulence to flourish as pilot school

NAPLES — Manuel Lercher learned all he could about flying in his native Austria.

“It all starts when I was 5 years old,” he said one day after a brief flight at Europe-American Aviation. “My mom said, ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’ And I said, ‘A pilot.’”

After performing flight simulations and learning the basics of piloting a single-engine aircraft, Lercher’s ground-training with a family friend and private instructor had reached the end of its usefulness.

So he and a friend came to the United States on student visas, found a place to live in Naples and began their in-air flight training at Europe-American Aviation.

It is a common story at the flight school’s two-story office just north of the General Aviation Terminal at Naples Municipal Airport, where about half of owner Carsten Sturm’s students come from overseas. It is stories like Lercher’s that are lending the school powerful word-of-mouth credibility in European countries, as well as helping the business increase 40 percent to 50 percent each year.

Read more here: http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2009/jan/18/naples-based-aviation-company-survives-post-911-tu/

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Europe-American Aviation proudly announces that we have resumed full and unrestricted Multi-Engine Training in the DA42 Twin Star.

We have acquired a fourth Twin Star and our staff of highly qualified Multi-Engine instructors is at your service.

We are glad to pass recent price reductions for Thielert parts on to you: Our Twin Stars are now priced at $458.00 per hour, which equals a 5% price reduction.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your patience and understanding during this challenging Thielert situation.

The “perfect-weather-season” has already started in Florida. Call or e-mail us to save your reservation for flying and training with us.

Tags: DA-42, TwinStar

To our valued customers: 
Thielert Aircraft Engines (TAE) DA42 situation 
UPDATE as of 28th October, 2008 
 
When Thielert Aircraft Engines (TAE) went into insolvency, the company discontinued all guarantees 
given to customers regarding prorated Warranty and life limited parts for Thielert engines.  
All operators were forced to drastically increase their prices in order to cover these increased operating 
costs for the DA42 Twin Star.

In an announcement last week, Thielert reduced some of the current prices (esp. for inspected 
gearboxes and clutches) and we are glad to pass these reductions on to our customers. As of October 
the 28th, 2008 the price per hour is reduced by more than 5%: 
Read More...

Tags: DA-42, TwinStar

The Federal Aviation Administration has selected
Europe-American Aviation to train its General Aviation Safety Inspectors with two
courses: Indoctrination and Light Twin Refresher. Technology is advancing so rapidly
that the FAA decided to incorporate specialized classes to keep their General Aviation
Safety Inspectors up-to-date on the latest aviation technology and equipment in the new
and modern aircraft. “We are honored that the FAA will do their training at our facility in
Naples,” states Mr. Mike Wilson, Chief Flight Instructor. Read More...

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To: DA42 customers, Diamond Authorized Service Centers, Diamond Distributors

Re: Thielert Situation Update


Over the past 10 days, Diamond senior management has been working diligently in an
attempt to achieve a workable solution for DA42 and DA40 tdi owners on parts support and
warranty. We had a face-to-face meeting with the insolvency administrator on Friday, May
9th, and several subsequent telephone conversations, the latest on Friday, May 16th.

Unfortunately, the results have not been positive, and we need to share with you what
clearly is a very disappointing update.

Overall, we have the impression that the insolvency administrator is not able to nor
interested in providing a path forward which makes current TAE engine operators and
owners a priority. Instead, we are left with no choice but to conclude that their agenda is at
odds with ours and yours, and that we will likely not get a workable solution from working
with TAE and the administrator until after the end of preliminary insolvency, presumably in
July.

Read the full Statement here (PDF Document)

Tags: DA-42, TwinStar

On April 24th 2008 the manufacturer of Thielert Aircraft Engines (TAE) opened preliminary bankruptcy proceedings and a lawyer was appointed as trustee to manage the company.

Operating under similar protection as Chapter 11 here in the USA, Thielert discontinued all guarantees given to customers regarding Warranty for Thielert engines as of May 15th 2008.

The Diamond Twin Star DA42 operates two Thielert engines. These engines have life limited parts (e.g. Gearbox, clutch, pressure pumps and others) that have to be replaced at certain intervals. These parts were so far covered under warranty. The withdrawal of Thielert’s warranty promise means that the operating cost of the DA42 has increased by up to app. $200.00 per hour (!)

In order to cover at least a part of these increased costs, we regret to announce the following measures which are in effect immediately:

• The price for the DA42 will be $485.00 per hour

This new price covers the fuel surcharge (until further notice) in other words – no fuel surcharge for DA42’s

Although this drastic increase will help to cover a part of the additional costs, there remains some uncertainty of Thielert’s actual ability to deliver parts when they will be needed. As a consequence, we need to make sure that we use the available engine hours as efficient for our customers training purposes as possible. Therefore, the following restrictions apply until further notice:

• We cannot offer Checkouts on the DA42’s
• We cannot allow Rentals on the DA42’s
• We will not offer initial Multi engine training (e.g. Commercial ME)
• We will not offer Time-building flights in Twin Star aircraft

This also affects the Multi engine portion of our Cleared Direct program

• We reserve the right to evaluate, alter and deny any DA42 flight, based solely on our internal priorities, even on short notice.

We are evaluating alternative solutions to this situation and hope that these restrictions can soon be reduced or removed, based on open decisions from the manufacturers involved.

Until then we appreciate your understanding.

Update: Please also read the Statement by Diamond Aircraft

Tags: DA-42, TwinStar

See the D-JET mock-up in Naples, FL

Monday, March 24 from 10am – 4pm



Premier Aircraft Sales, Inc., will have the Diamond D-JET mock-up along with
the new 2008 Diamond DA40 XLS, DA42-TDI Twin Star and Mooney
Acclaim on display. Come see your next new airplane!

More Details in this PDF Document (140 KB)

Tags: D-Jet, Open House, DA-40, DA-42, TwinStar

Gulfshore Business portrays Europe-American Aviation in their February Issue:



Download the PDF Document here (1.8 MB)

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Europe-American in the News at Plane & Pilot Magazine



Plane & Pilot portrays Europe-American in their Schools & Jobs column.

Download the article here as a pdf document (1.3 MB)

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Europe-American in the News at Flying Magazine:



Robert Goyer got his multi engine rating in our DA-42 and wrote a great article about it.

Download the article here as a pdf document (1.8 MB)

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Obtaining a college degree is an important step in your aviation career. During your flight training at Europe-American Aviation you can pursue a regionally accredited Associate or Bachelor degree by studying online with The Global Aviation Degree Program TM.

Europe-American Aviation is currently providing flight instruction for students enrolled in the Global Aviation Degree program offered by Utah Valley State College. Global Aviation is a regionally accredited department of Utah Valley State College.

Financial Aid for flight training is available for qualified students via Utah Valley State College’s online Global Aviation Degree Program TM. There are two types of financial aid available through Utah Valley State College:

1. Federal Grants and Loans
2. Alternative Loans

Students enrolled in a minimum of 6 credit hours per semester may qualify for one or both types of financial aid. In addition to covering tuition expenses for the Global Aviation Degree Program TM financial aid can be used to fund flight training for certificates and ratings at Europe-American Aviation.

Please visit the financial aid section of UVSC at Global Aviation Degree Program.

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With CLEARED DIRECT™ the world’s first Diamond Brilliance Flight CenterTM launches the first all Glass cockpit Career Pilot Program.

Just over one year ago, Europe-American Aviation embraced the future by joining forces with Diamond Aircraft Industries to become the worldwide first Diamond Brilliance Flight Center™. Europe-Americans fleet now exclusively features Diamond’s complete line-up of Technologically Advanced Aircraft (TAA) and Diamond Simulation’s Level 5 Flight Training Device (FTD).

“Our strategy was simple and straight forward” states Carsten Sturm, President and CEO of Europe-American Aviation “offer the best equipment in terms of training efficiency, safety and technology and customers will appreciate it.” Read More...

Tags: Cleared Direct, Training

Over two hundred people attended the D-Jet Mock-up presentation at Europe-American Aviation on October 29, 2006. Owner and President Carsten Sturm and Premier Aircraft Senior Vice President Art Spengler state this as an enormous success. Directly after the event, Europe-American Aviation, a flight school with 10 Diamond aircraft and Premier Aircraft Sales a distributor of Diamond aircraft announced a positive impact on their business.

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On October 06, Bruce Batelaan, Chief Flight Instructor with Europe-American Aviation proudly received his Master CFI title. This title is recognized by the FAA and represents his extraordinary skills and ongoing commitment to provide high quality training. The flight school honored his latest accomplishment by awarding him with the quarterly CFI Trophy for outstanding performance.

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The first and so far only DA42 FTD (Flight Training Device) located in the USA has now been certified by the FAA. This Level 5 FTD is located at Europe-American Aviation, a Diamond Brilliance Flight Center in Naples, Florida.

The simulator with a real copy of a DA42 cockpit is manufactured by Diamond Simulation and completes Europe-Americans entire fleet of Diamond Aircraft. The certification was an important step to offer a more flexible and effective training to the students. Implementing a Flight Training Device into the flight instruction gives a lot of advantages to the customers. In this kind of environment a student trains much better then in just a generic one-size-fits-all cockpit. He can master the basics and more importantly train for unusual and dangerous emergency situations. This leads to higher motivation and subsequently to better training results. In addition, as weather is no longer a factor and down time for maintenance is negligible, the training is much more flexible.

Europe-American Aviation notices a remarkable trend for more Multi Engine Training since they became the worldwide first Diamond Brilliance Flight Center in June 2006. “Compared to the last year, I have given more than double the instruction time for Multi Engine training versus that of Single Engine Training” states Bruce Batelaan, Chief Flight Instructor at Europe-American Aviation who also holds a title as Master CFI. Due to the increased demand of Multi Engine Training, Europe-American Aviation just recently enlarged their fleet by adding a third Diamond DA42 Twin Star, in addition to their fleet of 10 Diamond Single engine aircraft!

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Modern, fast & safe: Diamonds newest Four Seater, equipped with the finest Avionics, like Garmin GFC 700 Automatic Flight Control System, Garmin Taws-B Terrain Awareness System, Avidyne TAS 600 Active Traffic System and Garmin GDL69A Satellite Data, lets you go fast and far with it's 150kts Cruise Speed and 50 Gallon extended Range Tanks.
More Features are the MT 3-blade composite constant speed prop, AmSafe Inflatable Restraints, Electrically operated rudder pedals as well as a Premium Interior in champagne Leder.

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We are excited to announce the new arrival of our third Diamond DA42 Twin Star, nowhere else will you find this many TwinStars including the Diamond Elite Simulator!

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