SPECIAL TRAINING / ELECTIVE CLASSES
1. RUN-UP AND TAXI PROGRAM
The Run-up and Taxi (RT) Program is offered and integrated in the curriculum of all PATTS Technical courses. It gives the student the opportunity to experience one (1) hour lecture (briefing / orientation) and thirty (30) minutes hands-on and actual operation of a trainer aircraft under the guidance and tutelage of a licensed and qualified pilot / mechanic / ground instructor.
The said training covers the familiarization of airplane parts, instruments, controls and communication systems. It also includes a thorough study on procedures of engine starting, and engine shut down and emergency. Basically, the students experience actual run-up and taxi operations.
*Note: Since all students required to take-up this program have earned a good background of aircrafts/operation of aircrafts/ aircraft systems, the program is intended to prepare the students for the actual hands-on running up and taxiing of the aircraft.
It is a multimedia English program, which covers listening comprehension, grammar exercises, oral fluency development and written reinforcement. In addition, it offers voice recording, playback, on screen text, quizzes and mastery test, which help students learn the language meaningfully.
The course is intended to help graduating students extend their knowledge of English and develop their confidence in communicating in the language. The course further aims to expose students to various situations where they need to communicate in English, thereby acquiring “communicative competence.” Consequently, at the end of the course, they should have acquired the ability to communicate accordingly, depending on situations, purpose and roles in preparation for job employment.
4. TEST OF ENGLISH FOR INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION (TOEIC)
PATTS students are required to take this international language proficiency test on their 1st year and 3rd year level at the college. This international examination ensures that PATTS graduates are ready to work in a diverse environment like airports, hotels, and aircraft manufacturing firms where English is the primary medium of communication.
5. VISUAL VECTORING ENROUTE™ (VVET™)
VV Enroute is a Windows-based Air Traffic Control Simulator and Radar Skills Trainer that provides basic skills development instruction and explanatory material that enables students to lean to manage intense and challenging traffic scenarios in a real Enroute/Area Control environment. It is ideal for deployment at the commencement of a radar (or surveillance) ATC course, and will reduce training times and failure rates – and their associated costs. Skills taught include Vectoring, conflict recognition and resolution, Application of radar/surveillance separation, sequencing, interface Usage, multi-tasking and scanning.
Aside from skills acquisition, it confirms to the student that he/she has the necessary cognitive capacity to cope with the unique mental demands of the job, and so promotes a viral factor in all learning – confidence. It provides a training methodology that removes many of the impediments, principally rising skill requirements for busier traffic and learning pressure, which caused traditional “live” training to become less efficient and costlier.
6. MAINTENANCE, REPAIR, AND OVERHAUL TRAINING PROGRAM
This 5-day specialized training program with a 1-day on-site facility tour is tailor-made for the students to gain competence in theoretical and practical line & base maintenance. This course covers Airframe, Engine and Electrical elements in detail and are all taught by fully certified and widely recognized industry professionals. Training includes the description of controls and indicators, principal system components and, servicing and minor trouble shooting procedures. Upon completion of the course, the students are knowledgeable in terms of describing relevant safety precautions, identifying the location of system components and explaining the normal function of each major aircraft system, state routine servicing procedures, and using and interpreting on-board diagnostics to a Line Replaceable Unit (LRU).
7. HEATCON ® COMPOSITE TRAINING
The science of composites has been incorporated into the curriculum of PATTS’ technical courses. The PATTS Composites Laboratory is unique among all aeronautics schools in the Philippines because PATTS is the only aviation school that has this composite training facility, which is equal to any of the composite workshops found at MRO’s and aircraft repair facilities throughout Asia. The laboratory contains all of the equipment required to repair composite structures on aircraft, both fixed wing and rotor. This includes hot bonders, debulking table, downdraft grinding tables, and composite repair tool kits. Note that, it is also the only facility to have an Autoclave, the famed HEATCON Repair Clave on site.
Driver’s Education 101 aims to equip students with the knowledge, skills, and values needed for vehicle safety both as a driver and as a pedestrian. It is expected to give the students an edge in their future careers and equally as important, to improve road safety by producing well-educated drivers.
It includes a 20-hour lecture and hands-on driving lessons. Students who pass the program are certified and are provided assistance during their driver’s license application at any Land Transportation Office (LTO) agency nationwide.
9. PASSENGER SERVICE AGENT COURSE
By completing this course, the students are expected to have gained a deeper knowledge of the Passenger Service Agent role, duties coupled with aviation terminology and procedures. They are skilled in the proper procedures of checking-in and boarding passengers using airline system simulator to ensure safe and secure passenger and baggage transport. They are trained to provide superior customer service in a demanding customer facing environment.
Through role-plays based on airport scenarios and a variety of other learning activities, students will develop the necessary skills to perform in a front-line customer service role. Airport familiarization tour and on-the-job training is facilitated to put students right at the heart of the action.
10. MULTIMODAL TRANSPORT OPERATION
The course spans the full range of key areas from characteristics of the transportation system, trade and transport, airfreight transport operations, and international shipping and land transport methods. Upon completing this course, the students will have the skills to: state the supply chain business process integration, recognize the scope of freight forwarding services, and describe advantages of multi-modal transportation and; the unitization and carriage of dangerous goods.
11. AMADEUS AIRLINE RESERVATION AND TICKETING ESSENTIALS TRAINING
The PATTS B.S. Tourism Management Program has partnered with the leading Global Distribution System (GDS) in the world, AMADEUS, in training our students on basic and advanced utilization of Amadeus Computerized Reservation System (CRS). The CRS training aims to teach the students on fundamentals of airline reservations and ticketing. This training requirement has been embedded on one of the courses of the said program. An assessment follows at the end of the training. Once a student passes the said assessment, the student shall receive a Diploma for completing the course, certifying his/her competency in the system.
12. TOURISM KNOWLEDGE CENTER
Tourism Knowledge Center (TKC) is an online depository of relevant tourism researches that the students can use in doing their respective research works. TKC has provided PATTS with the technology to ease out the difficulty in looking for information relevant to tourism studies.
PATTS B.S. Tourism Management program specializes in Airline Operations, which makes this training relevant in pursuit of quality higher education for our students. This provides our students a mandatory Cabin Crew Training Workshop, which includes the fundamental roles of a Cabin Crew, Image Building for Cabin Crew, Flight Safety Demonstration, In-flight Service and Entertainment essentials, and Emergency Drills. The training is usually done inside a cabin simulator to let the students experience real-life training environment.