The Civil Aviation Administration of China expects that the country will need to train 500,000 additional civilian pilots within the next two decades to meet demand, Reuters reported, citing the deputy chief of the administration’s pilot school. The boom comes as China is scheduled to allow private planes to fly below 1,000 meters next year without military approval. The administration can only handle 100 students a year at its training unit, and with the rest of China’s dozen-odd pilot schools bursting at the seams, foreign players are joining local firms in laying the groundwork for new courses that can run to hundreds of thousands of dollars per trainee.
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