They are not yet whizzing through the air, the electric high-flyers from the Munich startup Lilium, but the pilot training has already been taken care of. Lufthansa Aviation Training (LAT) is to take over the task of finding suitable candidates and making them fit to be able to control the air tax.

First, LAT and Lilium want to develop a training course for qualified professional pilots that will use technology such as Mixed and Virtual Reality (MR / VR). LAT wants to provide the necessary components. The necessary approvals from the regulatory authorities EASA and FAA must also be obtained.

Crisis airline LAT is based in Hallbergmoos near Munich and currently looks after around 200 airlines. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Lufthansa, which, according to the latest media reports, will continue until the end of this year 29. 000 wants to cut jobs. As a result of the coronavirus pandemic, Lufthansa was operating in the red with 1.3 billion euros in the third quarter. Since there has not yet been an agreement in the collective bargaining dispute with the pilots’ union, Lufthansa boss Carsten Spohr threatened that in the spring 2021 a thousand pilots can be fired. As early as September it became known that Lufthansa intends to phase out the training of new pilots at the Bremen location.

Whiz kid Lilium Jet (43 Pictures) 2025 the second factory is to be put into operation.

(Image: Lilium) Lilium sees the cooperation as an important milestone on the way to becoming an air mobility provider for regional traffic. The start-up’s electric air taxi will have five seats. 2025 According to the company, series production and the operation of regional flight services should start.

In its most recent round of financing, Lilium has collected the equivalent of 000 million euros, new investors are included not boarded. The previous financiers Tencent, Atomico, Freigeist and LGT participated in an unknown amount.

(anw )