Since 2010 Riga Aeronautical Institute is a partner in Pelican Flight Training LLC, based at North Perry Airport, Pembroke Pines, Florida, USA, which has been training professional pilots on a continuous basis since 1985. This school has an excellent reputation and strong training ethic, which was acknowledged when Pelican Flight Training was named 'School of Special Merit' by the Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges (ACCSC).

We are proud to announce that today this school is one of only eight flight training schools in the USA, accredited by ACCSC, which is approved for the issue of the F1 student visa.

 RAI/Pelican FTC provide our students with airline pilot training from basic to medium-jet type rating utilizing both Federal Aviation Administration and Joint Aviation Authority procedures standards.

 We may say that since day one Pelican Flight Training use to have enrolled applicants from all over the world coming as students and leaving the school as graduated professional pilots ready to join the aviation industry.

Networking and knowing how to relate with people from different cultures gives that extra edge that not every pilot has the privilege to experience and learn.

Pelican Flight Training graduated pilots currently flying in 78 Countries!

• United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, France, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Denmark, Holland, Germany, Poland Czechoslovakia, Romania, Monaco, Norway, Sweden Finland, Serbia, Belgium, Iceland.
• Malta, Italy, Cyprus, Greece, Seychelles
• Mauritania, Sudan, Egypt, Nigeria, Morocco, Kenya, Ghana, Angola, S. Africa.
• India, Sri Lanka, Mauritius, Pakistan.
• Bahrein, Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Oman.
• Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore.
• Japan, Hong Kong, Thailand, Philippines. Australia, New Zealand
• United States, Canada, Puerto Rica, Bahamas, Dominican Republic, Haiti
• St. Martin, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos, Aruba, Curacao, Barbados, Bermuda
• Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Equador, Belize, Suriname, Chile
• Guatemala, Mexico, Costa Rica, Honduras, Panama.

The unique combination of:

1. More than 65 years experience of Riga Aeronavigation Institute, one of the best and well known Aviation Training Educational Institutes (University) in the Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Union Region, with more than 40 thousand graduates working in each area of aviation industry in more than 50 countries.
2. Captain T.A. Fensome, President and CEO of Pelican Flight Training is a former airline captain and airline president. He is acutely aware of the importance of professional pilot training using airline methodology from the very first training period.
3. Pelican Flight Training is situated in Florida, where the climate is the one of the most sought after in the entire United States. This allows for flight training 12 months of the year.

allow our professional training programs be the best suited to match the needs and demands of both individual pilots and airline companies. Our students are trained up to and beyond standards required by the FAA and JAA, with airline careers in mind, and with crew concept part of the curriculum. We believe that a pilot going through our program from zero experience to CPL/ATPL, with the possibility of a jet transition course and type rating either in our partner simulator center or in the airline training centers, is more than suitable for entry into the airline system.

Starting with June 2009 Riga Aeronautical Institute is a holder of the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) sertificate PART 66, PART 147 numbered LV.147.0001. The Institute convenes the following programs:

Type Training Boeing 737 – 300/400/500 (CFM 56) B1
Type Training Boeing 737 – 300/400/500 (CFM 56) B2

Training of specialists is provided in RAI Training Center according to Maintenance Training Organization Exposition (MTOE).

THE 2-nd INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE

“INTERNATIONAL TRANSPORT:  ECONOMICS, MANAGEMENT, SPECIALIST TRAINING.”

 26-27 of May, 2010, RAI, Riga, Latvia

Riga Aeronautical Institute (RAI) is one of the oldest educational institutions of Latvia with rich experience and traditions of training of specialists in the aviation and transport sphere.
RAI, founded in 1942 as a school of training of aviation specialists, from 1989 is an institution of higher education with many years’ successful experience of work on the international market of educational service.

  RAI today is:
- A termless accredited institution of higher education Promising and in-demans transportation and economic professions
- Modern methods of teaching
- Qualified academic staff
- Cooperation with field-specific educational institutions and training centres
- Collective training of cadets of Nacionāla Aizsardzības Akadēmija
- Branches in Latgale: Daugavpils, Rezekne
- Network of regional advisory units
- Possibility to obtain a state diploma of the Republic of Latvia recognized by the Ministry of Education of Russian Federation
- Highly developed teaching and methodical and material and technical base
- Full of variety campus life

We are sure – we go one way I.Kuznetzov   RAI President

  So the history ordered that in the course of 70 years the Institute has changed its name several times and since 1992 it has been called Riga Aeronautical Institute, becoming a legal successor of earlier well-known educational institutions: RAUSS GVF, RAUSS GA, RLTU GA, RBAU GA.
The only one thing has remained unchanged – a high level of training of specialists.
Particular pride of the Institute is its graduates.
In the course of 70 years there have been trained:
• radio technicians - 17000
• air traffic controllers - 21000
• economists – transport managers - 8000

But ... The pride lies not in the quantity, but in the contribution of every graduate to the development of the sector where they work