Do you wish to become a commercial aviation pilot?

You can do it at CESDA, the first University College of Spain

The Bachelor's Degree in Commercial Aviation Pilot and Air Operations is an official degree course which trains professional pilots to help them meet the strict demands of the aviation labour market, by obtaining the EASA European Civil Aviation Pilot license with all the necessary categories up to "ATPL Frozen" level. This "ATPL frozen" license is the standard offered by the flight schools and is the minimum requirement to work in an airline.

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Commercial aviation is evolving very rapidly due to the great technological, regulatory and economic-social changes that are taking place. With the Degree in Commercial Aviation Pilot and Air Operations you will obtain a great training in the profession in which you dream, and you will obtain great flexibility that will allow you to adapt to the changes that appear or that you are the one who governs your own career as a pilot.

The pilot degree is highly valued by airlines that hire young recent graduates as we are told by airline pilots and airline managers.

In-flight training

CESDA has a modern fleet of aircraft suitable for the different phases of flight, to provide appropriate instruction for its in-flight training subjects. The training is complemented with FNPT II and MCC flight simulators (Airbus A320).

• On the Flight training I course, students fly single-engine aircraft (SE) under visual flight rules (VFR).
• On the Flight training II course, they move on to real and simulated single-engine and multi-engine (ME) flights under instrument flight rules (IFR).
• On the Flight training III course, students perform real and simulated commercial operations based on multi-engine aircraft.

When they have completed their studies, students will have flown a total of 285 flight hours, of which

• 170 are real flights, 
• 55 hours are in a basic simulator and 
• 60 hours are in a Multi Crew Coordination Airbus A320 simulator (MCC).

This flight training is divided into three annual subjects throughout the degree and provides training fully adapted to the demands of airline companies and especially to airlines that hire young recent graduates.

In this way, CESDA graduates, upon completing their degree, can access pilot selection processes for many airlines at the Spanish and European level with the highest guarantees, as we have observed year after year since 2005.