{"id":22631,"date":"2022-07-03T15:19:27","date_gmt":"2022-07-03T15:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=22631"},"modified":"2022-07-03T15:19:30","modified_gmt":"2022-07-03T15:19:30","slug":"ecsu-aerox-and-piedmont-flight-training-join-forces-to-expand-aviation-workforce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/north-carolina\/ecsu-aerox-and-piedmont-flight-training-join-forces-to-expand-aviation-workforce\/%20","title":{"rendered":"ECSU, AeroX, and Piedmont Flight Training Join Forces to Expand Aviation Workforce"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Elizabeth City State University (ECSU), AeroX, and\nPiedmont Flight Training are partnering to expand aviation education,\nstrengthen and diversify the aviation workforce, and build an autonomous urban\naircraft infrastructure in North Carolina. The advanced air mobility market \u2013\nwhich will include self-driving \u201cflying cars\u201d [passenger drones] and electric\naircraft that can deliver goods without a pilot \u2013 is expected to be $1.5\ntrillion by 2040, and this three-way collaboration will help build the\ntech-savvy labor force and infrastructure needed to keep North Carolina an\naviation leader for decades to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This new three-way collaboration will help meet today\u2019s\naviation opportunities, as well as emerging technologies of the future:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecsu.edu\/\">ECSU<\/a> offers the only four-year Aviation Science and Unmanned Aircraft Systems degrees in North Carolina, which it will expand to the Winston-Salem region through an online aviation degree program and flight training partnership with Piedmont Flight Training (PFT). This will be the same four-year aviation degree offered in person at ECSU, and students will complete the flight portion of the degree with PFT, making the program convenient for students in the region. Students paying for flight certifications in order to enter the aviation workforce can now enroll at ECSU to complete an aviation degree. Through the NC Promise Tuition Plan, in-state students pay only $500 a semester in tuition.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/flypft.com\/\">Piedmont Flight Training<\/a> will be ECSU\u2019s affiliated flight school partner. It will train students at its Smith Reynolds Airport facility in Winston-Salem for the university\u2019s new four-year online program in aviation science, which includes a pilot\u2019s license.\u00c2\u00a0 PFT will be the exclusive provider of flight training services for ECSU\u2019s aviation science degree and will concentrate on flight education for students from Cabarrus, Davidson, Davie, Forsyth, Guilford, Mecklenburg, Randolph, Rowan, Stanly, and Union counties.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/ncaerox.com\/\">AeroX<\/a>, a non-profit organization comprised of business, government and community partners, was recently awarded $5 million from the North Carolina General Assembly to build an unmanned aircraft systems (UAS, or drone) traffic management system in Winston-Salem. ECSU will provide student and faculty resources and expertise to help create this low-altitude air traffic control system. AeroX will offer two paid advanced air mobility (AAM) summer internships to provide experience in the aviation industry and support AeroX\u2019s STEM-related activities.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAeroX is creating America\u2019s first urban air mobility\nsystem that will attract companies and create technology jobs, while Piedmont\nFlight Training and ECSU are preparing students for aviation careers,\u201d says\nDavid Mounts, Piedmont Flight Training owner and member of AeroX\u2019s board of\ndirectors.&nbsp; \u201cOur partnership with ECSU\nwill help us prepare our local workforce and expand access to high-potential\njob opportunities right here in our communities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ECSU Chancellor Karrie G. Dixon says, \u201cWinston-Salem is\nwhere I was born and raised, and it\u2019s an honor and privilege to match the love\nof my hometown with my passion for higher education.&nbsp; ECSU has a phenomenal aviation science\ndegree, and thanks to this new collaboration, we\u2019re able to offer this\nopportunity to other regions of North Carolina.&nbsp;\nWe\u2019re diversifying the workforce, giving our students a bright, stable\neconomic future, and supporting the aviation industry and our state all at the\nsame time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are currently seeing the biggest change in aviation\nsince the jet engine,\u201d adds Basil Yap, President of AeroX and appointee to\nNASA\u2019s Aeronautics Research and Technology Roundtable. \u201cOver the past five\nyears, North Carolina has established itself as a leader in drones with the\nfirst routine drone delivery operations in the nation happening here in our\nstate. In addition, we conducted the first public air taxi \u2013 or flying car \u2013\ndemonstration in the nation. This collaboration between AeroX, ECSU, and\nPiedmont Flight Training ensures we are giving our communities the education and\ntraining to benefit from these advancements in aviation to help our state\nmaintain its leadership role.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 10-year collaboration began earlier this month and\ncan be renewed in 2032.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth City State University (ECSU), AeroX, and Piedmont Flight Training are partnering to expand aviation education, strengthen and diversify the aviation workforce, and build an autonomous urban aircraft infrastructure in North Carolina. The advanced air mobility market \u2013 which will include self-driving \u201cflying cars\u201d [passenger drones] and electric aircraft that can deliver goods without a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-carolina"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22632,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22631\/revisions\/22632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}