Marc Parent has piloted CAE to become the world’s biggest flight instructor. Here's who may be teaching your airline pilot to fly:
arc Parent learned to fly before he earned a driver’s license. As a teenager in the 1970s, he’d hitchhike 15 miles from his parents’ modest home in the Montreal suburbs to the Saint-Hubert Longueuil airport, where he took lessons in a Piper Cherokee. Before he turned 18, he'd flown a Cessna four-seater 2,800 miles to the Bahamas and back with a friend.
Pilots from easyJet and other European airlines train at CAE’s Burgess Hill center, shown here, located close to London. It's one of 65 CAE training centers worldwide. Given the high cost of flight simulators — $6 million to $15 million apiece —and to keep up with the demands of recurrent training, operators generally try to run the machines 16 to 20 hours a day, seven days a week, requiring many pilots to train on the night shift. CAE promises it can operate a training program more efficiently than an airline given its deep knowledge of its own equipment and its extensive training center network.
But analysts and Parent believe the company has gained critical mass in the past few years, inking 40 long-term training deals in 2018 alone and making inroads with some bigger-name airlines. CAE launched a rookie pilot training program with American in 2018 and established a joint venture with Singapore Airlines to establish a training center. Parent sees winning business from the widely admired airline as a big get. “I take huge pride in that,” he says.
Parent had built a strong track record as an aerospace engineer and manager at Bombardier, belying the prediction of a high school physics teacher who had told his father, an insurance company manager, and his mother, a bank teller, that he’d never amount to anything. Brown, who ran Bombardier Aerospace in the 1990s and was promoted to CEO of the whole company in 1998, says he had been impressed by Parent’s ambition and his ability to execute under pressure.
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