Punta Caucedo. The Superior Academy of Aeronautical Sciences, Asca, of the Dominican Institute of Civil Aviation Idac, was selected to host an extraordinary meeting of the directors of civil aviation training centers of North America, Central America and the Caribbean Nam-Car, under the auspices of the International Civil Aviation Organization, Icao.
Clara Fernández, rector of the Asca and host of the activity, explained that the central objective of the meeting is to process the information of various proposals and capacities of the training centers in the region, in order to improve sustainable instruction with an approach aimed at guaranteeing the continuity of the training of aeronautical personnel and the development of the competencies of aviation professionals.
Fernández, welcoming delegates on behalf of the director of Idac Héctor Porcella, said that the meeting of the Working Group of Aviation Training Centers of the Nam-Car Regions is an important step forward in responding to the challenge posed by the accelerated growth of commercial aviation in the continent.
The activity takes place on Tuesday 17 and Wednesday 18 of October at the Asca facilities in the aeronautical complex in Punta Caucedo, and seeks to identify training needs in all areas of civil aviation in each State and to share information on the resources available in their respective training centers. including technology and specialized human capital.
The opening ceremony was also attended by the director of the Central American Institute for Aeronautical Training, Iccae, and representative of the Central American Corporation for Air Navigation Services, Cocesna, Raúl Melchor, who also serves as rapporteur of this meeting, and who considers it as an opportunity for the region’s training centers to be more sustainable, and highlighted the leadership that the Dominican Republic has achieved in the field of civil aviation and, especially, in the field of technical training and specialized personnel demanded by the sector.
The meeting is attended by the directors, delegates and representatives of the civil aviation training centers of the Nam-Car, regions: Fernando Camargo, representative of the Icao-Nacc regional office of Mexico; Samuel Philgence, from Barbados; Morwenna Minguel-Meijer of Curaçao; Omri Amaya Carias, from Honduras; Cary Price of Trinidad & Tobago; Deborah S. Stephenson and Adrian M. Hoefer, from the United States; Jorge Luis Valverde and Rodolfo Valverde, from Costa Rica; Ana Persiani, from the Latin American and Caribbean Airline Association, Alta; Pedro Avella Carrillo, from the Icao, Training Office; Vanessa Byas, George Báez and Juan Pérez-Richiez, from the Dominican Republic.
