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EN<br />
COMMERCIAL PILOT ATP<br />
The Best International Flight Training<br />
Experience in Europe<br />
<br />
Multiple Bases & Trans-European Training
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This brochure lets you access information about<br />
GreyBird Pilot Academy, the commercial pilot<br />
education as well as additional information via<br />
our website and the digital platform MyBird.<br />
As you read this brochure, you will find several QR<br />
codes. When you scan these QR codes, you will be<br />
taken to our website and our MyBird platform<br />
which offer more information about the topics in<br />
this brochure as well as several other tools and<br />
resources for you to read and enjoy.<br />
We hope that you will enjoy this brochure as<br />
much as we enjoyed creating it, and we<br />
encourage you to give us any feedback you might<br />
have on our website.<br />
Scan our QR code<br />
to register<br />
this brochure
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WELCOME<br />
Welcome to our outstanding, one-of-a-kind and<br />
truly international commercial pilot education.<br />
Airline Transport Pilot (ATP) with CPL, UPRT and<br />
APS MCC are the parts included in our education<br />
programme: a structured and interconnected<br />
process – from start to finish. We can proudly<br />
proclaim that our commercial pilot education is<br />
one of the only programmes in Europe, which<br />
sends you in the air in a multi-engine airplane with<br />
a glass cockpit for more than 60 hours. We are the<br />
only pilot academy to offer strictly positive<br />
training.<br />
GreyBird has bases in three countries: Denmark,<br />
Sweden, and Spain, and we make good use of this<br />
fact. The Southern European base is a great place<br />
to visit for our northern European student pilots<br />
to fly consistently during wintertime, and during<br />
summer, our Spanish student pilots get a much<br />
appreciated chance to fly in IMC conditions in<br />
Scandinavia. This means, flying in bad weather<br />
conditions, into and above clouds.<br />
By following this versatile programme, which we<br />
can offer due to our different bases, students will<br />
have the opportunity to achieve a skill set unlike<br />
what is obtainable at a pilot academy that operates<br />
locally in only one location. All the costs for<br />
travelling between the bases and for staying in a<br />
different base than your home base are included in<br />
the price of the education.<br />
Scan to read<br />
more about<br />
GreyBird
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A BROAD<br />
EDUCATION<br />
Becoming a pilot is not limited to learning to fly<br />
an aircraft. It is much more than that.<br />
A pilot thinks, acts, communicates and works in<br />
a particular way, and is constantly aware of<br />
risks and thinking ahead of any potential event<br />
that interferes with the planned actions. This is<br />
true in the air as well as on the ground.<br />
The aviation industry focuses on three words:<br />
knowledge, skills and attitude (KSA).<br />
As a flight training organization, our finest task<br />
is to make our students KSA aware, and we<br />
have developed a special programme and a<br />
special way of working, studying and thinking,<br />
which we believe affects our students<br />
efficiently and effectively so that they become<br />
KSA aware.<br />
Our programme is referred to as "The Circle of<br />
Success", because success is what you will get<br />
if you work and study true to the philosophy in<br />
the programme. Go to page 5 and 6 to read<br />
more about our training philosophy.
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HIGHLY EXPIERENCED<br />
INSTRUCTORS<br />
GreyBird has been in business since 2013. In the<br />
relatively short time since 2013, GreyBird has<br />
become the largest and most successful pilot<br />
academy in our country of origin – Denmark,<br />
and thus we have expanded our operation to<br />
Sweden and Spain.<br />
GreyBird differs from traditional pilot academies<br />
in many ways. One of the very important ways is<br />
that we base our education on almost exclusively<br />
permanently hired full-time instructors.<br />
As opposed to having freelance instructors,<br />
which is commonly used in the industry, this<br />
choice ensures that the instructors you will learn<br />
from are as qualified as possible. They do<br />
nothing but fly for GreyBird, they are<br />
standardized and intensely trained under the<br />
supervision of GreyBird’s experienced Chief Flight<br />
Instructor (CFI).<br />
It makes a difference that your flying instructor<br />
flies as an instructor every day rather than as a<br />
freelancer a few times per month.<br />
GreyBird offers the most intense education on<br />
the market measured by the number of valuable<br />
hours in the air – and more importantly, by the<br />
planning of these hours. Our operational<br />
management plans and schedules your entire<br />
education. We make sure that there is a<br />
common thread and that you will only<br />
experience positive training. For that reason,<br />
GreyBird appeals to people who not only dream<br />
about flying, but who also want to be the best.
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CIRCLE OF SUCCESS<br />
At GreyBird, we have developed a training<br />
philosophy that trains your attitude and<br />
increases your level of competence.<br />
What we aim to introduce is a repetitive way of<br />
working and an understanding of how you must<br />
work to become and remain a great pilot.<br />
Meticulous, Responsible, Competent must all<br />
be part of who you are.<br />
The road to becoming a great pilot with the right<br />
attitude starts with meticulousness. Being<br />
meticulous is a choice, and it does not take<br />
more than a decision to act meticulously. To be<br />
responsible and competent, obviously, is not a<br />
decision. To be competent is a result of doing<br />
the right thing; training hard and working<br />
efficiently for a prolonged period of time.<br />
But what about being responsible? Could that<br />
be a choice? To be responsible, you must make<br />
the right decisions repeatedly, and to be able to<br />
make the right decisions, you need knowledge<br />
and knowledge comes from preparation. What<br />
is the right decision, you then ask?<br />
The right decision is very rarely the easy<br />
decision. The right decision is the decision<br />
which is good no matter what happens next. If<br />
you find yourself thinking, “is it good enough if<br />
I…?” or similar, the right answer is “NO”.<br />
You will not be able to ask and answer this kind<br />
of question without proper preparation, and<br />
therefore the journey to becoming a great pilot<br />
starts with being meticulous and acting<br />
meticulously.<br />
Read more about our<br />
training philosophy
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POSITIVE TRAINING<br />
At GreyBird, you will experience a fantastic and<br />
rewarding time, you will learn a lot about<br />
yourself, your strengths and weaknesses, and<br />
that, in itself, is a strength. You will study hard,<br />
and you will have fantastic experiences with<br />
your instructors and classmates. You will fly<br />
across Europe and experience the freedom of<br />
being able to go anywhere.<br />
We are convinced that our graduated pilots<br />
have a level of competence that is way beyond<br />
the norm, because they have flown for more<br />
hours in complex aircraft and at longer<br />
distances. In addition, they fly an exceptionally<br />
higher number of hours in multi-engine<br />
airplanes than is the tradition in the industry.<br />
The great finale in the MCC simulator – 40 hours<br />
in an Airbus A320 with highly experienced<br />
captains and first officers from the industry as<br />
instructors – is the students’ cream of the crop.<br />
We are proud of our programme, we are proud<br />
of our graduating students, and we cannot wait<br />
to tell you more.<br />
Visit us, attend an information meeting in<br />
person or online, or watch an education briefing<br />
video, but first and foremost, talk to us! We<br />
cannot wait to help you find your way to one of<br />
the two best front seats in the world!<br />
Learn more<br />
about positive<br />
training
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A CHOICE FOR LIFE!<br />
Your choice of pilot school may be the most important choice of your career. Thus, examine the market<br />
carefully. It is important that you choose a school at which you can see yourself spending hundreds of<br />
hours and where you meet people you trust. Most importantly, you should choose a pilot academy<br />
which you believe will help you to become the best version of yourself. It is crucial that you believe that<br />
the staff is competent, and it is equally important that you consider yourself in good hands both<br />
financially as well as security-wise.<br />
At GreyBird, professional competences, security and safety are our most important parameters. For that<br />
reason, we do not focus only on practical skills; an important part of the education is the development of<br />
your attitude as well as the competences that enable you to make the right decisions in stressful<br />
situations.<br />
WE FLY GREEN<br />
At GreyBird, we fly in state-of-the-art Tecnam<br />
airplanes. The airplanes are both designed and<br />
manufactured in the current millennium. Not<br />
only that; they are green, using only 15-20 liters<br />
of fuel per hour per engine, and they make very<br />
little noise compared to older types. The aircraft<br />
can fly on unleaded fuel.<br />
Read more about<br />
why you should<br />
choose GreyBird<br />
THE BEST FUTURE PILOTS<br />
With the Tecnam planes, GreyBird offers a product<br />
not yet matched in the European aviation industry.<br />
We offer more complex flying lessons in modern<br />
aircraft at the same price as you will find in less<br />
attractive programmes. A pilot who has recently<br />
graduated from GreyBird has a total of 205 flying<br />
hours – 137 of which are flown in state-of-the-art<br />
Tecnam planes. We believe that this gives you the<br />
best education and the best stepping-stone for your<br />
future career. In the final module of the education,<br />
you will spend 40 hours in an FNPT II MCC Airbus<br />
A320 simulator. In this part of the education, you<br />
will complete your APS MCC course, which must be<br />
completed in a simulator.<br />
When you graduate from GreyBird, you will have<br />
flown 62 hours in a real multi-engine airplane, and<br />
in addition, you will have spent 25 hours in our<br />
procedure simulator which is an exact replica of the<br />
aircraft. When you are investigating your flight<br />
academy options, pay close attention to the number<br />
of hours of real flying time in real multi-engine<br />
airplanes. Frequently, a considerable part takes<br />
place in a simulator that is different from the<br />
aircraft, and even more often, many flight training<br />
organizations use single-engine aircraft to conduct<br />
IFR training. It is cheaper, but it provides negative<br />
training and is less valuable than multi-engine<br />
training.
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A PAY-BY-MODULE<br />
SETUP<br />
At GreyBird, you do not need to pay all or even most of your flying lessons in advance. You will<br />
pay an entrance fee, and you will pay at the beginning of each of the four modules. This means<br />
that you pay for your education as you progress, and most of the education is paid when you<br />
have passed all the theoretical exams. In addition, the pay-by-module setup gives you an easy<br />
overview of your financial progress during the entire education process.<br />
SMARTBIRD HELPS<br />
We have developed our own digital platform for<br />
administering the education. The system is called<br />
SmartBird and will be your helping hand<br />
throughout the education to keep track of how<br />
close you are to your dream of becoming a<br />
commercial pilot. In SmartBird you have the full<br />
overview of the finances in relation to the<br />
education, as well as the progress of your lessons.<br />
Learn more about<br />
our pilot academy<br />
and how to<br />
finance your pilot<br />
education<br />
<br />
In SmartBird, you can at any time see how close<br />
you are to the fulfillment of your dream of<br />
becoming a commercial pilot. In SmartBird, it is<br />
also visible where each lesson belongs, so for each<br />
lesson, you can see which module the lesson<br />
belongs to. In the same way, you can find your<br />
instructor’s comments and good advice for you for<br />
all the lessons you have completed.
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YOUR JOURNEY<br />
Info Meeting<br />
See the school and meet our<br />
management - let us show<br />
you why we are the best.<br />
Personal Meeting<br />
A chance to meet GreyBird's<br />
management, discuss your<br />
situation and plan your education.<br />
Medical<br />
Mandatory Class 1 medical at<br />
a price of approx. 1,100 EUR<br />
Admission Test<br />
Free written admission test, as<br />
well as a personal interview<br />
Enrollment<br />
Follow your instincts,<br />
challenge us, and sign an<br />
education contract!
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PHASES AND MODULES<br />
MODULE 1<br />
Basic theory - 75 flight hours<br />
Phase 1<br />
Basic flight training<br />
Phase 2<br />
Airwork & solo<br />
Phase 3<br />
Solo navigation<br />
MODULE 2<br />
13 subjects and exams<br />
ATPL - 13 SUBJECTS<br />
22-24 months<br />
M O D U L E 3<br />
S i m u l a t o r a n d t w i n e n g i n e - 8 7 f l i g h t h o u r s<br />
U P R T T h e o r y - 3 f l i g h t h o u r s<br />
<br />
MODULE 4<br />
APS MCC Theory<br />
- 40 flight hours<br />
Phase 4<br />
IFR multi-engine & CPL<br />
Phase 5<br />
UPRT<br />
(Upset, Prevention & Recovery training)<br />
Phase 6<br />
APS MCC
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GOALS AND<br />
VALUES<br />
WELL-STRUCTURED<br />
EDUCATION<br />
Your education is well-structured and has been<br />
planned to the last detail. When you have graduated<br />
as a commercial pilot, you will be prepared for a job<br />
at an airline. Furthermore, you will be able to work as<br />
a pilot in the General Aviation industry where, among<br />
other things, you can fly business jets. Participate in<br />
an information meeting in person or online to learn<br />
more about GreyBird’s pilot education. If you have<br />
any questions, please do not hesitate to send an<br />
e-mail to info@greybird.dk for more information.<br />
COMPLYING WITH<br />
INDUSTRY DEMANDS<br />
For us, it is a question of honor to deliver high-quality<br />
training, and it is our one goal to educate pilots who<br />
are among the best in the industry. GreyBird Pilot<br />
Academy focuses on professionalism, skills and good<br />
attitude – we challenge our students, and in return,<br />
we expect them to challenge us. In an industry like the<br />
aviation industry, which is going through enormous<br />
developments, it is important to keep up with the<br />
demand and remain up to date. Our top priority has<br />
always been, and remains to be, to educate pilots as<br />
demanded by the aviation industry. For that reason,<br />
our education has been designed in close cooperation<br />
with the industry and experienced captains from the<br />
airlines who are awaiting you after your graduation.<br />
As a pilot school, it is important to keep up to date.<br />
For that reason, new airplanes, the right simulators,<br />
flight training across Europe, digital work tools,<br />
personal development and Crew Resource<br />
Management (CRM) are part of our education. Not<br />
only do we have the best product according to our<br />
students and ourselves, we also deliver the product<br />
demanded by the industry.
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INTERNATIONAL<br />
EDUCATION<br />
As part of their education, students at GreyBird Pilot<br />
Academy get the opportunity to fly internationally. In<br />
addition to flights to neighboring countries, the education<br />
program also gives you a chance to go to other GreyBird<br />
bases for weeks at a time. Swedish and Danish students visit<br />
Spain during wintertime and avoid fighting the freezing flying<br />
conditions in this region, while the Spanish students get to fly<br />
in actual IMC conditions in Scandinavia during summer.<br />
Training in other countries than your own has many benefits;<br />
the culture is different, and as a pilot student, you will learn<br />
about the challenges that come with being based in another<br />
country. The local shops' opening hours are different, and<br />
the people you meet in the streets do not necessarily speak<br />
<strong>English</strong>, but you will have to find a way to communicate.<br />
In addition, the terrains in the different areas are very<br />
different. This adds a whole new dimension to flying for the<br />
students.<br />
For Spanish students, training in Scandinavia means water<br />
and changing weather. For Scandinavian students, training in<br />
Spain means terrain and a different ATC or local aircraft<br />
communicating in Spanish. In addition, the students get a<br />
chance to bond with their classmates while they are away<br />
and meet new friends who also wear GreyBird uniforms.<br />
There are no distractions when you are away – “just” a lot of<br />
flying, classmates and new exciting things to learn.
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WHY CHOOSE<br />
GREYBIRD?<br />
You should choose to study at GreyBird because<br />
you want to be one of the best. We certainly<br />
strive to be the best, and to constantly improve<br />
our great product. If your aim is to be among the<br />
best pilots out there, if you want to be coached<br />
to be the best version of yourself, and if you<br />
want your pilot academy to expect great things<br />
from you, we are the right choice of flight<br />
training organization for you.<br />
You should choose GreyBird if you care about<br />
the environment. We fly the most<br />
environmentally friendly aircraft available. You<br />
should choose GreyBird if you believe that<br />
training, living and studying in an international<br />
multicultural environment matter and improve<br />
your skills and ability to perform well from day<br />
one in your first job.<br />
You should choose GreyBird if being part of a<br />
state-of-the-art organization is important to you,<br />
if you want to train in modern aircraft and<br />
simulators, if you want to fly instrument training<br />
with digital glass cockpits only, and if you want<br />
the tools you use to calculate performance and<br />
fuel consumption to be digital and similar to the<br />
tools used when you graduate.<br />
You should choose GreyBird if you believe that<br />
the positive training philosophy we have<br />
incorporated in our programme is a fulfilling and<br />
prosperous way of training; if you think that it is<br />
important that you always train in the same type<br />
of aircraft or simulators – not in several different<br />
types chosen at different times by the flight<br />
school, just because they are cheaper for the<br />
school to purchase and operate. If you agree that<br />
training in the exact same aircraft as the aircraft<br />
in which you will pass your flying exams will train<br />
you better than flying many distinct types with<br />
equally many different cockpit layouts.<br />
There are many other reasons why you should<br />
choose GreyBird Pilot Academy. If you are still<br />
undecided, our best advice is to come visit us.<br />
See the facilities, the aircraft fleet and talk to our<br />
skilled instructors and management. We<br />
guarantee that you will find it worth your while<br />
and that you will meet a professional and<br />
welcoming team.<br />
Read more about<br />
GreyBird Pilot<br />
Academy<br />
You should choose GreyBird if you want your<br />
time as a student pilot to be spent on more than<br />
just flying around the local flying club or airport.<br />
If you want to fly in Europe through many<br />
countries, if you want to travel and see other<br />
countries and experience the difference between<br />
the Scandinavian and Spanish weather and<br />
terrain, join GreyBird.
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HOW TO GET<br />
STARTED<br />
At GreyBird, we recommend that you arrange a personal meeting with us. At least one person<br />
from the school management will attend. Afterwards, we will show you our school, and perhaps<br />
most importantly, you will get a chance to ask all your questions in a forum of only you and us.<br />
You can start your commercial pilot education at different bases and in different languages. Scan<br />
the QR code for an overview of the events of the year and see when the next programme that<br />
suits your wishes starts.<br />
THE REQUIREMENTS<br />
Many people have an incorrect perception of<br />
what it takes to become a commercial pilot.<br />
Perhaps you know some of the requirements<br />
from the air force, or you may have heard urban<br />
legends. The requirements for flying airliners<br />
are far from the same as the requirements in<br />
the military.<br />
For instance, it is OK to wear glasses or contact<br />
lenses; there are no special requirements to<br />
your height; and a broken leg or any other<br />
broken bones will not be a hindrance. Your<br />
physical and mental health must be good, which<br />
is the case for most young people. You do not<br />
need to have top grades from school, and there<br />
are no requirements for specific subjects. In<br />
fact, you do not need a high school diploma at<br />
all. You must have passed what corresponds to<br />
the ninth-grade final exams of the primary and<br />
lower secondary school, and you must be at<br />
least 18 years old. To enroll at GreyBird, you<br />
also need to pass an admission test and<br />
produce a certificate of clean criminal record.<br />
FREE ADMISSION TEST<br />
The admission test at GreyBird consists of an<br />
interview, written math and physics tests<br />
(corresponding to the exams in the ninth grade<br />
at Danish schools), a personality test and a test<br />
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of logical thinking. The admission test at<br />
GreyBird Pilot Academy is free. The last step<br />
before you can start your education is a realistic<br />
financial plan. We offer help and guidance if you<br />
need to take a loan from the bank. In addition,<br />
we have payment plans and budgets which are<br />
a good place to start when you need to<br />
negotiate with the bank.<br />
Ready to get started?<br />
Scan this QR code
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THE MEDICAL<br />
CHECK-UP<br />
CLASS 1 MEDICAL<br />
When you have applied for enrollment at<br />
GreyBird, you need to visit an Aeromedical<br />
Center (AMC) to get your Class 1 Medical<br />
which is the medical certificate that is required<br />
to become a commercial pilot.<br />
It is OK to wear<br />
glasses or contact<br />
lenses, and there are<br />
no special<br />
requirements to your<br />
height.<br />
We have a list of relevant AMCs and can provide<br />
information on how fast you are likely to get an<br />
appointment as well as the cost at the given AMC.<br />
Contact us, and we will help you.<br />
Learn everything you<br />
need to know about<br />
Class 1 Medical
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OUR<br />
FLEET<br />
We use Tecnam airplanes with a new and unique design. We have bought most of our aircraft<br />
directly from the factory, and we have flown them to our bases from Naples ourselves. The trip from<br />
Naples takes approx. 15 hours if the aircraft is heading for Denmark or Sweden. Europe is small when<br />
you’ve got wings. We use two types of airplanes when educating the pilots of the future: our singleengine<br />
planes type P2002JF and our multi-engine planes type P2006T.<br />
P2002JF is a great training<br />
plane for many reasons. Among<br />
other things, it features:<br />
P2006T is an impressive high-end<br />
airplane. The most important<br />
advantages are:<br />
Fantastic visibility<br />
Very good maneuverability<br />
Great aerodynamic characteristics<br />
Fuel efficiency<br />
Very good aerodynamic characteristics<br />
Cockpit with all the features one’s heart desires<br />
Amazing performance with a fantastic range<br />
Short take-off and landing distances<br />
Clear and logical instrumentation<br />
Amazing take-off and landing performance
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OUR<br />
SIMULATORS<br />
Most of the flying lessons take place in our airplanes, however, we also have state-of-the-art, hightech<br />
simulators for training specific procedures and for targeting the education at the large and<br />
heavy airplanes.<br />
Tecnam P2006T-simulator:<br />
Qualifies you before you train in real<br />
airplanes, 100% identical to real planes<br />
Gives you basic understanding of<br />
airplanes and procedures<br />
Allows experimentation with airplane<br />
limitations<br />
FNPT II MCC-simulator:<br />
Realistic simulation of an A320<br />
airplane<br />
Emphasis on jet and inertia<br />
management<br />
Preparation for the life in an<br />
airliner cockpit<br />
Focus on multi-crew cooperation
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THANK YOU<br />
FOR READING<br />
WE WISH YOU A FLYING<br />
FUTURE!<br />
If you need any more information or have some<br />
questions for us, do not hesitate to contact us<br />
through our website, or by mail info@greybird.dk<br />
We are always ready to help and answer any<br />
questions you might have!<br />
To read more about GreyBird, or<br />
to get in contact with us, scan<br />
this QR-code
HEADQUATERS BASES CONTACT<br />
Ny lufthavnsvej 22<br />
Info@greybird.dk<br />
8560 Kolind<br />
+45 70 770 110<br />
Denmark<br />
www.greybird.dk