President Capt. Rahman Sulistyo Province West Nusa Tenggara Staff 30 | Faculty 15 Phone +62 370 636333 | |
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Motto Volare altius, fugere velocius, fugere novum Motto in English "Fly higher, fly faster, fly newer" Location Mataram, Lombok, Indonesia Website www.liftflightacademy.com/index.html Address Selaparang International Airport, Jl. Adi Sucipto No.1, Rembiga, Selaparang, Kota Mataram, Nusa Tenggara Bar. 83124, Indonesia Profiles | ||
Lombok Institute of Flight Technology, also known as LIFT, is an Indonesian higher learning institution specializing in theoretical and practical aeronautical science education. Based on Lombok island (approx 60 miles east of Bali island) the institute received its educational accreditation as a flight academy from Directorate General of Civil Aviation of Indonesia in 2010. The institute operates from Selaparang Airport in Mataram.
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History
LIFT was established in June 2010 in cooperation with a private investor from Hong Kong and a local management from Jakarta. LIFT was the first flight training facility in Indonesia to operate glass cockpit Liberty XL2 aircraft.
Establishment
LIFT has aviation business roots in Indonesia dating to 2005, with the establishment of PT Sky Aviation, a small charter company, which was providing inter-island VIP charter service using US-built Cirrus SR22 aircraft. The operation was housed in the same hangar as the current company's flight operations base. In 2010, the investment company decided to move to a more profitable flight training sector of aviation business and sold PT Sky Aviation to a local Indonesian investment firm while establishing Lombok Institute of Fight Technology.
Aircraft
LIFT purchased its first fleet of six Liberty XL2 flight training aircraft from Liberty Aerospace Corporation in Melbourne, Florida, in 2010 and shipped them to Johor Baru to be later ferried to Lombok. It owns and operates five Liberty XL2 aircraft, both Classic and Vingard editions.
Synthetic flight
The flight simulation department houses two advanced full-motion flight simulators capable of realistic reproduction of flight in Liberty XL2 aircraft.
Operation
The first training flight was made in December 2010.
Senior management
The institute is governed by the former Indonesia's presidential pilot Capt Rahman Sulistyo with support from the satellite administrative branch located in Jakarta Nusa Alam.
The LIFT's department of aeronautical theory is primarily responsible for instruction in Jakarta's college section of aeronautical theory under close supervision of DGCA Indonesia
Key persons
The institute is a Pt 141 flight training academy and appoints three management persons for their flight training, maintenance and quality control departments. [DGCA]-approved key persons for years 2010-2012 are:
Campus
The fight training campus is located in Senggigi resort area on the island of Lombok, West Nusa Tengara in Indonesia. A satellite campus (academics only) is located in Serpong, Tangerang, in West Jakarta
Satellite facilities
Satellite facilities are located in Selaparang International Airport, in Lombok International Airport, Nusa Alam in Jakarta and Sumbawa Besar Regional Airport in Sumbawa
Academics
The institute offers professional pilots courses in the following areas of aeronautical theory:
Research
The institute is participating in the Liberty XL2 aircraft type certification research.
Students
Notable people
Faculty and staff
LIFT's faculty includes many aeronautical science professionals. Key persons in the flight department in 2012 are Chief Flight Instructor Russell Sherwood