(upbeat pop music)
- All right, B1 and rotate, sit tight
raising now.
- It feels so different.
- Yeah, it feels so much different.
- It's solid
Down Dubai is always amazing,
just looks like something out of Star Trek.
(upbeat music)
- Little flare, freeze, just freeze.
Let the aeroplane touch down,
easy. - Oh wow.
- This is different than any traditional flying school.
This is an academy that's built for an airline pilots.
- We can actually reduce the power.
- We take people right in the beginning,
and we train them all the way from zero hours
to get an integrated ATPL.
And then we send them off to, hopefully to an airline job.
- The assessments are not easy.
- Not easy?
- Yeah, because we have a lot of exams to do
before we can get into the institute.
- This is your accommodation here?
- [Woman] Yeah, this is my room.
- [Sam] Wow.
- We all knew Emirates has big jets in the fleet,
A-380 and triple-seven.
But today we're going to fly something smaller,
much smaller, as small as Cirrus 22 in the Emirates fleet.
- Right, so we're going to see, Sam,
if you've got what it takes to fly this aero plane.
And let's see if you can land it as well.
- I recently got my pilot licence,
I think this should be a cake.
Let's go.
- Yeah, let's go.
(wind blowing)
(plane engine roaring)
- Okay.
Looks are complete. Ready to taxi.
- [Petrus] Yeah, so you can,
let's add a little bit of power for the alternator,
so we're not turning right on the offer.
- Okay.
So we go this way now, delta 7.
- [Petrus] That's right.
- Over, one, five, November, Russia, taxi,
alpha, alpha seven holding points.
Runway three one.
- Taxi Alpha, Alpha, seven to runway three one
holding point onto 15 November.
- [Sam] The rudder is pretty sensitive.
- [Petrus] Yeah.
- [Sam] So Petra said,
when do the students actually get into the Cirrus to fly?
- [Petrus] Sam, the cadets do 90 odd weeks
of ground school followed by the technical ground school
for the Cirrus aircraft.
And then they start with the actual aircraft line.
You can say, call on the radio or on the phone
that we're ready for departure.
- [Sam] So one five November holding short
at runway three one ready for departure.
- [Air Traffic Control] Okay one five November,
line up and wait, runway three one, vehicle on the runway.
- [Sam] Line up and wait runway three one,
one five November.
Okay, release park brake.
- [Petrus] Turn our lights out.
Approach cleared. Runway occupied.
- [Air Traffic Control] One five November,
so this wind is calm.
Runway three one cleared for take off.
- Runway three one clear to take off.
That was one five November.
(engine whirring)
- [Petrus] Take off.
Make sure you're not on the brakes right now.
(multiple voices speaking over intercom)
- [Air Traffic Control] Good morning into the control zone
by Oscar echo and descend to 1,000 feet.
Runway three one. QNH1002.
(multiple voices speaking over intercom)
- [Petrus] Close the flying gear up.
Lower the nose just a little bit.
- [Sam] Just a little bit.
- [Petrus] That's perfect.
- [Sam] What's our climb speed like?
- [Petrus] One over 90.
- [Sam] One over 90.
- [Air Traffic Control] ______ one five November,
clear to leave the zone.
VFR not above 1,500 feet. QNH1002.
- [Petrus] Yes, so there's the 311.
So that's what she said we can follow, the 311.
So whenever you want, you can take control.
- [Sam] On my controls now.
- [Petrus] All right you have control.
Sam, that's the expo site to the right.
- [Sam] Oh wow, that's the expo site, it's huge.
- [Petrus] Huge.
___ one five November,
this is Cirrus SR-22 exiting, routing north
towards Montgomery golf course.
- [Sam] I was really impressed, it was quite easy,
although I used to fly light sport Sling.
And coming on to the Cirrus,
when I rotate and flying around a little bit manually,
and the trims and everything helps out.
The flight control principle's the same,
- [Petrus] Yes, definitely.
- [Sam] Yeah.
- [Petrus] Right Sam, we just crossed
Montgomery golf course
and we're now routing towards Safa Park.
And as you can see ahead of the aircraft,
the Dubai skyline and the Burj Khalifa.
- [Sam] Oh, I'll get my phone ready.
Wow, just saw the Palm Jumeirah.
Oh my gosh. The golf course, Dubai Marina.
And of course the Burj Al Arab Hotel landmark.
Ah, it still really looks amazing.
Dubai looks amazing from about,
I can only think of, today's a little hazy,
in the winter, all cleared up, how beautiful it will be.
(upbeat music)
What's so exciting is to know this is uncontrolled airspace
above all the buildings here in the city.
Yeah, this is the best kept secret.
Now I'm telling you.
(driving techno music)
- [Sam] You can see- what are these little numbers?
Minus 13, plus 76. You have TCAS on this aeroplane.
- [Petrus] That's correct.
We have a traffic avoidance system.
And what you're seeing on the MFD is basically traffic,
other traffic in our area.
- [Sam] Oh.
- [Petrus] One Five November.
We went Montgomery golf course through the green community.
We request to enter your CTR, cross the extended line,
and route join downwind at the academy.
- [Air Traffic Control] Cleared to land _ one five November.
- [Petrus] Okay, landing checklist is complete.
So you're a little bit slow there, Sam.
- [Sam] I got to pop you, three white-
Three red, one white.
Adding power.
Okay, you are the instructor, save my landing.
I don't want to screw up.
- [Air Traffic Control] Runway three one.
- [Petrus] So far so good.
- Don't take off too much power
because we're already a bit low on the speed.
- [Sam] Roger.
- [Petrus] You can take the power off towards the end.
(engine whirring)
And start reducing the power.
And keep the nose up.
Power to idle now, keep the nose up.
Just keep the nose up.
(plane pings)
There you go.
- [Sam] There you go.
- [Petrus] That's okay
- [Sam] Slightly ballooned.
- [Petrus] No problem. That's good.
(engine whirring)
(engine powers down)
- Well, thank you so much showing me the Cirrus 22, Petrus.
Pleasure.
- [Petrus] Yeah, you're welcome, and you did well.
- Alright, Sam, well done on the flight on the SR 22.
You've passed the test.
We'll now send you off to the Phenom,
Embraer Phenom 100 multi-engine jet,
where you'll fly with John.
Let's see what you got.
(driving pop music)
- Hello, good morning, Captain.
Hi, good morning, Sam.
- Nice to meet you. - Nice to meet you.
Welcome to Emirates flight learning academy.
- Before I came, I thought, this was just a flight school,
but this is huge!
- This is different.
This is different than any traditional flying school.
This is an academy that's built for an airline pilots.
So we graduate students to get to Emirates airline mainly,
and other airlines when we have capacity.
Sam, we aim to be the, the best academy.
We have the best infrastructure, as you're going to see.
And we have the best industry practise for training.
That was His Highness's vision from day one
when we established this academy.
To be the best in the world.
(upbeat pop music)
(plane engine roars)
- So I just flew the Cirrus,
but this was my first time in that cockpit,
the system's all new here.
So I'm in this ground class to learn a bit more.
Hi, how are you?
- Hi, Sam. I'm good, how are you doing?
(mellow techno music)
- Okay. So something you did earlier, Sam,
let's see if in the classroom,
you can also get the engine started.
Just getting some power to it.
- [Sam] Oh, wow.
- So, we can actually reduce the power.
We can see what's also happening
on some of the other systems.
Fuel system is alive now.
The engine driven pump is turning.
And that's it this will give you an idea
to work your way through the different systems
while you are doing it on one side,
you can see what is happening on the other side.
So I hope that this gives you a good introduction
to the SR 22.
- Very impressive.
I mean seriously,
with this kind of interactive study aid,
there's no reason we should complain
about ground class, right?
We used to thought this was so difficult,
but this makes it look much easier.
(mellow techno music continues)
- Welcome. This is our examination room.
This is where the selection process is conducted
for our cadets.
They come here, they put through the selection process,
which consists of an exam in maths and physics,
which are minimum plus mark of 75%.
- [Sam] I already have a private licence from the US.
Would I able to join?
- Unfortunately, Sam, no.
We take people to the right to the beginning
and we train them all the way
from zero hours to get an integrated ATPL.
And then we send them off to the,
hopefully to an airline job.
- $180,000. Two years.
You have to do it back from scratch.
Even I have a private licence and all that.
So why would people still come to EFTA?
You must have some sort of advantage, right?
- The difference here is you're not just a flight school.
We train cadets to become airline pilots.
To that end, we have written our manuals
to be triple seven by, follows the triple seven manual.
All the policies, procedures,
everything reflects an airline policy and procedure.
And additionally,
if you pass out of EFTA,
Emirates normally requires a first officer
to apply for the job of first officer.
You need to have a minimum of 2,500 hours
of flying experience.
However, if you graduate from EFTA,
they will put you to the selection process.
And if you're successful,
they will recruit you to the right seat of a triple seven
at this point with 250 hours of flying.
- So if you'd like to fly on a triple seven,
this might be a fast-track place to come.
(bright techno music)
- Good morning. My name's John.
I'm an instructor here
at the Emirates Flight Training Academy.
This morning we're going to go for a quick flight
in the Phenom 100EV.
So the difference between the EV and the original 100
is mainly the G 3000 cockpit with the touch screen displays.
And we can set up synthetic vision if we want to.
We're going to depart here
off of our own runway at Al Maktoum
and we'll proceed out hopefully around downtown,
around the Palm and maybe we'll see some stuff
while we're airborne.
- [John] Okay. If you're ready to taxi,
do you want to taxi?
- [Sam] Oh yeah.
- [John] Alright. So it's, it's a,
it's a computer.
There's a brake powered by a computer brake system.
So what you do is you kind of touch the brakes
to wake them up,
then you can use them all you want to.
- [Sam] Okay.
- [John] If you just stab the brakes on,
it tends to jerk
because the computer takes a second to wake up.
Four zero Quebec is on Lima six short alpha ready for taxi.
- [Air Traffic Control] Four zero Quebec,
taxi left alpha alpha one hold short
at the runway one three.
- [John] Alpha alpha one, hold short one three,
four zero Quebec.
Alright. You have control.
- [Sam] Okay, my controls.
- [John] Alright, so taxi.
What'd you, what'd you fly before?
I flew actually a light sport. South African Sling.
- [John] Okay.
That's why I said check whether it, or it's not required,
passengers are advised or getting ready to take off
transponders. All the auto pick off figures are checked.
Lights are on. So we're good to go.
Alright.
- Okay.
- Wonderful. You're three, four, second bank.
Ready for me.
Okay. You have control.
- My controls
Okay. Super exciting.
Alright. So power up all the way to stop.
That's good and release the brakes.
Here we go, you have control. Hold a neutral.
Keep yourself straight. Slide your feet down to the floor.
Your heels onto the floor.
You always down on the floor, but you want to add rotate.
So take res alright.
Positive climb.
Here's coming up.
Raise the nose a little bit for you, right.
- It feels so different.
Yeah. There's so much different.
So much power. Yeah.
Do you find yourself a good morning?
So also for zero Quebec, we're on downwind at,
after 1,500 feet requesting to possibly transit the,
a zone and exit and rent to the MPS at the north.
Are you guys at the back? Hey heroes.
- [Passengers] Yes, sir.
Okay.
I'm not making you guys sick?
- [Passengers] No, no, no.
You're doing great. You're doing great enjoy.
Alright.
Shall we turn the autopilot on?
- Yeah, please.
Alright. Autopilots engaged.
Okay.
How many hours? Usually they work off the Phenom.
It's about 20 missions. So 30 to 40 hours on the phenom.
And then they do a MCC course as well,
which is eight simulator sessions of four hours each.
So it's a,
another 32 hours or so on the MCC LT crew coordination.
- Well I am very lucky today.
Jumped straight from a Cirrus to a phenom and
bypass a lot of
these 210 hours.
- That's right.
- Wow. A thousand feet on the chits.
I see over.
- [Petrus] Yeah.
During COVID, when covid first happened
we were the only planes flying.
- Oh wow.
- And the controllers are all board.
So we're the only people in the air.
So we were getting direct back and forth right over top of
the centre centre of the airport.
Right over top of the Burj.
- so you guys do do some training during COVID.
- Yeah. We, we,
we shut down for the shortest amount of time with the,
entire company. Wow.
- Oh, wow.
The world's is coming.
The world islands looks like only one island is inhabited.
- [Automated Voice] Caution. Obstacles. Caution.
- Yes. You're correct.
The Burj is a big obstacle.
- That's right.
That's amazing seeing this, Dubai is so built up now
- Dubai is always amazing.
Just looks like something on a star Trek.
Our highest is 1500. We can go at
- I think it says 2000 here,
- 2000.
This area out there. It's lower.
- In this area is 2,
- yeah out, there's 1000 in here its 2.
- so, okay.
Alright.
Once you get them about here Northern Pappy's is look at
your touchdowns zone and apply and do it better.
If you need a flare, just call out or still around now.
Don't worry. I'll save my life.
200, 100.
What about here?
It's going to come down at all.
- Her eyes are outside Looking up little flare freeze.
Just freeze. Let the aeroplane touchdown.
- oh, wow. First landing on a jet.
Alright, there we go.
(indistinct radio chatter)
alpha Five alpha discretion.
Let go around the corner.
Alright, I'll take it to park.
- Okay, sir.
- Air control.
- How'd I do, John.
That was pretty good, man.
It's the first time in a jet. So we're still alive.
The wheels are saved.
the wheels are still on the aeroplane.
any landing you walk away from, right?
- Yeah, it was fun.
- It was good.
- So I felt like,
although it was my first time flying to jets,
but the principle I learned it's the same.
Although jets is much faster.
You're doing a take off rotate. 130 knots are coming in 110,
120 knots, much faster than the prop I'm used to be on.
But it's the next level. Once I build enough hours,
I'm sure this is a fairly easier transition onto the jets.
- This is the happening place is the canteen here.
And my understanding is you get free breakfast,
lunch and dinner, three meals a day, dessert, coffee,
everything here.
You don't have to pay for it.
- Nothing at all. This is quite amazing.
I'm happy that we don't have to pay for this.
- these are the Emirates, airline catering.
This is the same catering as the lounge in the Emirates
airline.
- How did you find out about this place?
- I came to, not to a friend he's already here.
His name is Dave.
So I just got in touch with him and he told me that facility
is good. So I just checked it online and back in India.
I mean, there are not so many good flying schools.
You know, DGC is quite a bit slow when it comes to training.
- How difficult was the assessment to get into here?
- The assessments are not easy because yeah,
because we have a lot of exams to do before we can get into
the Institute. But it is doable, if you can do it,
you can do, it.
- Outside the Cantina.
I found a student from Macau, Thomas here. So Thomas,
how did you know emirates flight training academy.
And how has it been for you?
- Oh, well, I started in March before the pandemic
I looked online and I found EFTA both,
to be honest at first, I didn't know about EFTA,
from Macau in air macau we had a cadet programme as well,
but then I figured out that it was a better transfer me and
a better opportunity for me to join EFTA and to better
educate myself. I guess.
- You want to fly the triple 7?
- Yeah (laughing)
- That's why everyone Joins here. To fly the triple 7
Emirates, right?
- Welcome to the accommodation.
- I want to check out their accommodation here.
This is your accommodation.
Wow.
Oh, very good.
Wow. This is just like a hotel room.
Hotel studio.
- Yeah.
This is like Emirates, airline, hotel Emirates, you know,
emirates university hotel.
- Yeah, so we get the housekeeping,
So they come twice a week to clean the rooms.
They do the bedding, they do the floor and they ______.
- Ill tell you my house.
I don't have people come to cleaning your luxury here.
Housekeeping.
I have so much wonderful experience.
I love aviation.
Captain, nice to see you again.
- See you again.
Well, thank you so much,
giving me this experience in your flight training academy,
its world class.
And I want a job now at Emirates because I flew the Cirrus.
I flew the Phenom. I went through the class.
I went through the simulator now can I,
John Emirates airline?
- please do.
(laughing)