HEGGEMANN trainees learn to fly: "Bringing aviation a little closer to the younger generation" was the original idea of Robert Heggemann, company owner and board member.
Far from it, when one thinks of dry lessons in closed rooms.
HEGGEMANN AG sees the action as part of the training on the way to responsible action, especially in the aerospace and aerospace industry.
The trainees should feel the thermal, the power and the lightness themselves and know what it is all about when constructing and producing metallic lightweight structures for aviation. The trainees did not have to ask a second time if you wanted to fly.
In 1962, the family-owned company in Berne started its business as a parts supplier for aircraft of the same type as those used by gliders in Bürener Schwalenberg. "Only now you feel the responsibility and pride, because we manufacture components for airplanes and for companies such as Airbus or for the Ariane rocket. It's fun, "says Claudio Canelas Domingues, a machinist apprentice, about his everyday apprenticeship.
The excursion started - in slightly cloudy weather - with 13 trainees and their instructors and the company boss as a "taster course for glider pilots" at the Aero-Club Büren. For one month trainees at the Büren airfield can make as many take-offs and landings as they like and the weather conditions make it possible. The self-with-tackling as preparation belongs in the association and makes the interested young women and men much fun. Touch the planes, push them to the launch site, finally hook in a winch rope before swaying into the air together with the flight instructor. After the flight operation, the aircraft are washed together and stowed back into the hangar.
Paul Römmelt, flight instructor and training manager at the Aero-Club Büren: "The action is received very positively in the club, which is also to be seen in the number of present and helping club members. The first taster afternoon of the HEGGEMANN students brought lively wind, but also required thermals, which made it possible on many longer flights to demonstrate gliding in all its facets. "
The interest is also the other way round: own up-and-coming pilots of the association would like to complete an internship or apprenticeship at the HEGGEMANN company soon. Another employee of the company has even decided on a motor flight training.
Photo: Part of the training on the way to responsible action, especially in the aerospace and aerospace industry at Heggemann AG. Jennifer shortly before the start with company owner and CEO Robert Heggemann at the airfield Büren.
Photo: Hildebrand / HEGGEMANN
