Academy of Carver Aviation Pvt. Ltd. Also Becomes CT Distributor for India

Leinfelden-Echterdingen GERMANY / 8 July 2009 — In a not-distant future, an enormous new market may develop for Light-Sport Aircraft (LSA). That market is India and it could represent a larger potential than any other nation. LSA market leader Flight Design has recently entered the Indian market. Academy of Carver Aviation Pvt. Ltd. (www.carveraviation.com), a company under European Aviation Holding Company Pvt. Ltd.  (www.eahc.in) is the largest flight school in India and has become a Flight Design Pilot Center and the distributor for India.

“The new LSA airplanes are very attractive for flight schools,” said Matthias Betsch, CEO of Flight Design. Especially in the emerging market of India, flight schools need to expand and to contain costs even when supplying the largest airlines with pilots.

The Flight Design CT series offers low acquisition and operation cost, but they must also be reliable for instructional use hour after hour, day after day. Betsch noted India has unusual proof of the CT’s reliability. “A flight around the world in a CT by two pilots from the Indian Air Force has shown the reliability and performance of the airplane,” he reported. Academy of Carver Aviation Pvt. Ltd agrees.

“After nearly one year of assessment, we have found out that most LSA airplanes are little more than “modern” ultralights. However, the CTLS is mature, third-generation light airplane which outperforms any similar general aviation (GA) airplane and is easy to run and to service even in the geographical and metrological conditions of India,” observed Academy of Carver Aviation Pvt. Ltd. CEO, Marc Carvalho. “The performance, range, view and interior space make the CTLS superior to standard GA airplanes therefore we expect a significant number of private pilots buying Flight Designs and our instructors have never seen or experienced a more comfortable work place.”

As in many countries of the world aviation fuel (avgas) has limited availability in India. Therefore the use of automobile fuel (mogas) can increase the utility of the airplane substantially. The Rotax 912 engine in the CT can use either fuel, even mixed in any ratio. Academy of Carver Aviation Pvt. Ltd. plans to replace the fleet of GA basic training airplanes in the next 18 month by Flight Design models and will open one more flight school in India by end of the 2009.

“As the market leader by airplanes delivered to customers, we have investigated the Indian market since the end of 2007,” said Betsch. “We are very proud to team up with Academy of Carver Aviation Pvt. Ltd. and European Aviation Holding Company Pvt. Ltd.” European Aviation Holding Company Pvt. Ltd. represents more than 60 years of aviation business experience, and has more than 2.000 employees in India.
 “Academy of Carver Aviation Pvt. Ltd has a very serious technical and service-orientated business approach that is a perfect fit to the Flight Design strategy,” says Flight Design CEO Matthias Betsch. “Mr. Carvalho has a reality-based business approach, which has ensured their success.”

Students at Flight Design Pilot Center (FDPC) flight schools benefit from learning in the third-generation Flight Designs. As the segment is only four years old, a third generation aircraft demonstrates the intense development by Flight Design engineers to fashion the airplane to better suit GA Airplane used pilots and flight schools. All flight schools use materials to help train students to take knowledge tests (written and oral exams), and flight evaluations, but Flight-Design made an extra effort to assure their study guides were specific to the CTLS. Flight Design uses X-Plane software available for PC-, Mac-, or Linux-based computer operating systems, which proved foresightful after Microsoft suspended development on its hot-selling MS Flight Sim software. The X-Plane version not only runs on more computers but is more customizable to fit the Light-Sport segment. Flight Design will strive through regular upgrades to make the X-Plane CTLS ever closer to the actual experience as it considers the software a training aid more than an entertaining game.

Flight Design is a 23-year-old air sport products producer based in Germany. More than 1,300 of its aircraft are flying in 25 countries. One of the first aircraft certified under the American ASTM standards, in 2005, the CT (“composite technology”) remains the best-selling LSA in America through four consecutive years. CT in several models has been popular in Germany and Europe for more than thirteen years.

For more information, go to: main manufacturer website www.flightdesign.com, or Flight Design USA website www.flightdesignusa.com/dealers.asp  to find the closest Flight Design dealer or go to the new http://www.fd-pc.com <http://www.fd-pc.com/> to find the closest Flight School.

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