Becoming a commercial pilot is one of the most expensive and challenging career paths in the world. An aspiring pilot may need to pay over $60,000-$100,000 on flight training, spend 6 to 18 months in flight school, achieve 200-250 flight hours, pass numerous exams and when their licenses are finally obtained, might struggle to land one of the coveted airline jobs.
Because many lack the knowledge, support and guidance needed to pursue a rewarding career in aviation; most aspiring pilots make a lot of mistakes which costs them more time and a lot of money. They are also easily taken advantage of by flight schools who capitalize on their ignorance for their financial gain.
Zino Mario- Ghae cofounded Zino Aviation, is providing solutions to these challenges which he describes as “easily avoidable”.
Mario-ghae is an experienced British-Nigerian Commercial Pilot who holds Airplane, Helicopter and UAV licenses with several thousand flight hours.
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As a holder of EASA (European), FAA (American) and NCAA (Nigerian) licenses, Mario-ghae has conducted flight training across the world and is highly conversant in flight training affairs.
He initially acquired his Private Pilot License at 18 and Commercial Pilot License at 19 making him Nigeria’s youngest ever Commercial Pilot at the time. Since then, he has amassed several thousand flight hours and helped hundreds of aspiring pilots through his wealth of industry knowledge.
“Zino Aviation is a Pilot training, career management and consultancy firm which we founded to mitigate the risk of failure and ensure success among aspiring pilots. We’ve help hundreds of aspiring pilots across the world but now we’re predominantly engaged in targeting Nigeria, Ghana and Africa, as we seek to provide solutions to key problems faced in the Pilot training space.
“We’ve seen many people spend 2 years and over $100,000 on flight training when they could have spent 6 months and just $35,000 but their lack of knowledge cost them dearly. Our primary focus at Zino Aviation is to provide the knowledge and mentorship aspiring pilots need as well as put them on our flight training programmes which will allow them to finish their training in the shortest period of time and with the least amount of money spent,” Mario-ghae said.
Zino Aviation is based in Nigeria, the UK, as well as the USA and is partnered with several reputable flight schools worldwide. In addition to working with individual clients they also provide flight training logistics and management services for Governments, Commercial Airlines, and Private Air Operators who are looking to select and train groups of pilots.
“We run entire flight training programmes for governments and those seeking to train individuals or groups of pilots. We handle the initial recruitment and assessment stage to determine the candidates who possess the key competencies required to succeed at flight school and become professional pilots.
“We then conduct their flight training with our international flight training providers and finally assist with the employment process of each pilot on their return from flight school. We basically take care of everything. This enables our clients’ resources to be used judiciously and provides solutions to the usual issues they experience such as of candidates failing at flight school, making ill-informed decisions, or worse, absconding with state-issued funds,” Mario-ghae said.
Zino Aviation are finally pioneering pilot mentorship and flight training services for aspiring pilots. They have become a one-stop-solution for the needs of all future pilots through their wide variety of services that include flight training, pilot mentorship, pilot assessments, aviation consultancy, flight training logistics management, online courses, aviation Medicals and career management.
