Hundreds of Russian pilots may lose diplomas and fly the right to fly. Is this a matter of security or money?

On June 21, the Central District Court of Chelyabinsk recognized the activities of the South Ural State University (SUSU) for the preparation of civil aviation pilots illegal, and decided to cancel the diplomas of his two graduates-Igor Martynyuk and Yegor Dryzhinsky, who graduated from SUSU in 2013 and 2017, respectively.

“The court satisfied the claims of the Chelyabinsk transport prosecutor's office in the interests of an indefinite circle of persons in full,” Court consultant Anna Voloshchenko told the Chelyabinsk edition of 74.ru. - The activities for the preparation of pilots under the secondary vocational education program from June 29, 2016 were recognized as illegal, under the program of additional professional education - from December 5, 2011 to July 30, 2014. ”

Despite the fact that only two pilots are deprived of diplomas now, almost all pilots, graduates of the YUGU Aerospace Faculty, can be under the blow - more than 200 people.

Among the places of their employment, the interlocutors of the "Novy" are called by almost all the well -known airlines of the country.

Part 1. Uncertified

The lawsuit of the transport prosecutor’s office to SUSU was filed in September last year. The supervisory authority drew attention to the fact that the university was preparing pilots without a certificate of the aviation training center.

SUSU spokesman Tatyana Stroganova in a telephone conversation with the correspondent of Novaya Gazeta refused to comment. Representatives of the university responded to a written request by unsubscribing.

YUSU really did not have a certificate of the Aviation Training Center. But the university concluded an agreement with the Chelyabinsk flight school of civil aviation (chlug), which until August 2016 had the corresponding certificate. It was in Chloga that students of SUSU were practiced.

According to lawyer Nadezhda Tolochkova, who represents the interests of graduates of SUSU, until 2017 ( *This year in SUSU and Chlug there were the latest pilots. - *I. J. ) Certificate of the Aviation Educational Center (AUC) only for training in additional professional education programs. For programs of secondary vocational education that graduates of SUSU studied, he was not required.

- The AUC certificate for secondary vocational education did not have any flight school in Russia. The first such certificate was issued on May 31, 2017. And if the prosecutor's office requires certification of educational institutions that prepare pilots, then it must demand this for everyone.

"Why are only Chelyabinsk pilots deprived of the right to fly?"

New Gazeta studied certificates issued by the Federal Air Transport Agency for Flight Schools until 2017. In applications to them, we are really talking about additional professional education. Certificates that relate to secondary vocational education for commercial pilots were not issued until 2017.

Part 2. Tragedy and redistribution

Crack

When discussing the conflict between officials and Chelyabinsk pilots, the theme of the AN-148 of the Saratov Airlines Airlines in the Moscow Region on February 11, 2018 invariably arises.

In June, Deputy Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation Alexander Yurchik in an interview with Novaya Gazeta said:

“During the proceedings on Saratov Airlines, it turned out that one of the pilots had a certificate of a commercial pilot received in an educational institution that did not fully meet the requirements for aviation training centers <...>. The center that prepared the second pilot did not meet these requirements. The prosecutor’s office ordered to check and, if necessary, withdraw a license from this training center, which the Federal Air Transport Agency and fulfilled. ”

We are talking about Sergey Gambaryans, the second pilot of the crashed An-148. In 2013, Gambaryan graduated from SUSU, and flight practice took place in Chelavia, which was later renamed Chlug.

After the disaster, the media published a decoding of the conversation of the commander of the vessel Valery Gubanov with Sergey Gambaryan. That's how she looked at the time of publication.

Deciphering the conversation of two pilots of the crashed An-148, which was published by the media

“ Aircraft commander (KVS): Up! Here.

Second pilot (VP): Now, now.

Qus: And you down ...

VP: In general, some kind of garbage!

Qus: No, well, as I understand it, you wanted it ... And you, on the contrary, are down.

VP: Then we will talk. So, we control everything!

Qus: Everything, everything is fine.

VP: Everything, the speed is normalized.

Alarm: compare speed, compare the speed.

VP: OP-Op-Op! 390!

Qus: Where is it down?! Where are you down? Why down?! Where?!

Alarm: compare speed, compare the speed.

VP: Yes, because what is good , 200 speed,!

Qus: Height! Height! Height!

Alarm: Terrain Ahead! Pull up! Terran Ahead!

Qus : Up !

Alarm : Terrain Ahead! Pull up! Terran Ahead!

Qus: That's it, *** . "

In the same form, this decoding exists in the media now. It can be concluded from it that the actions of the second pilot, which allegedly introduced the aircraft at the peak, led to the disaster. Based on this decoding, the colleagues of the dead after the disaster said that it was the second pilot that actually piloted the plane.

However, soon after the publication of the decoding, the Federal Air Transport Agency made a refutation of the authenticity of this record, noting that

Dialogues of the commander of the aircraft and the second pilot are confused in it, and some words and phrases are completely absent in an authentic entry.

The Investigative Committee in June 2018 also confirmed that the aircraft commander (a graduate of St. Petersburg State University of Civil Aviation) transferred the aircraft to dive. The commission of the Interstate Aviation Committee came to the same conclusion. As one of the factors led to the disaster, the Mac called “the loss of the working capacity of the aircraft commander in psychological terms (psychological stupor, Psychological Incapacation), which led to a complete loss of spatial orientation and did not allow to react to the right tips and actions of the second pilot.”

Be that as it may, in Russia over the past nine years, at least 12 large airlines have occurred. And only in one of them was a graduate of the Chelyabinsk school among the pilots. This did not prevent the Federal Air Transport Agency in April 2018 to deprive the licenses of 60 pilots, graduates of the SUSU (about the fate of the Chelyabinsk pilots, to whom the Motherland closed the sky, but who found themselves in Europe and the United States - in the material of Alexandra Georgevich “Flight without Russia”).

Students, specialists and monopoly

Today, the Chelyabinsk School of Civil Aviation, in which graduates of the SUSU, have practiced, does not work.

Chlug Director Alexander Matusevich believes that the whole thing is against graduates of SUSU and his school is built on the substitution of concepts.

- The Federal Air Transport Agency refers to the requirements of the Air Code and the federal aviation rules, which are about specialist training programs. That is, about people who are already recognized by specialists, ”he says. - Students who do not have any education other than school are not specialists. In the case of pilots, graduates of SUSU, we are talking about a program for training middle -level specialists. This is a program corresponding to the Federal State Educational Standard. And the Ministry of Education, which conducted an audit of our school in 2017, did not find any reason for the recall of our license. Our program corresponded to programs approved by the Federal Air Transport Agency.

Matusevich notes that the chlug at the time of the conflict was the only private flight school that prepared commercial pilots. In his opinion, the cause of the conflict was the redistribution of the market.

- The fact is that our training in commercial pilots was worth a noticeably less than in the schools of the Federal Air Transport Agency - 2.2 million rubles. In the Sasovo Flight School, which is a branch of the Ulyanovsk Institute of Civil Aviation, or in the Krasnokutsk School, training cost 3.4 million. Accordingly, we delayed a significant part of the students, and financial flows passed by public schools. We released more than 300 pilots. State institutions would receive good money for them.

“Now, when our school does not conduct activities, the Federal Air Transport Agency has reached its goal: it actually monopolized the market for commercial pilots.”

In an interview with the correspondent of the “New” Deputy Minister of Transport, Alexander Yurchik, admitted that in the past few years the market has been really monopolized. According to the official, the monopolization occurred “involuntarily” - since during the inspections of private aviation centers it turned out that some of them “do not fully meet the requirements”.

According to Alexander Matusevich, the Federal Air Transport Agency did not have the right to conduct checks and identify any violations related to certification of the AUC, because the department does not have the relevant regulation. “This is the function of Rostransnadzor. And we had inspections of Rostransnadzor. And they did not reveal any significant violations, ”he says.

Part 3. The unfulfilled order of the prime minister

Apart in pilots from SUSU is the history of 33 graduates of the Faculty of Aerospace who graduated in 2017.

At the disposal of Novaya Gazeta was their letter dated to March 2019, to the prime minister of the country Dmitry Medvedev, in which the pilots said that the Federal Air Transport Agency did not allow them to work-piloting aircraft. The reason is the same - the deprivation of the Chelyabinsk School of Civil Aviation (Chlug), in which the students of the SUSGU were practiced, the certificate of the aviation training center.

According to the graduates, after the Chlug lost a certificate, they went on the basis of the international airports of Balandino and Magnitogorsk: they independently controlled the aircraft from take -off to landing. And after practice, they successfully passed state exams, received diplomas with the qualification of the pilot and passed the necessary testing in the Federal Air Transport Agency.

But in the issuance of certificates of aviation personnel, the last necessary document, they were still refused.

"Our studies met the requirements of ICAO"

A letter to Medvedev was not intended for publication in the media. I managed to talk with one of the signing graduates of the SUSU, but only on anonymity. Next, I will call it "N.".

N. explains his unwillingness to reveal the name: “I don’t know how they will react in the Federal Air Transport Agency in an interview. Even if we eventually receive certificates of aviation personnel, the Federal Air Transport Agency can make us work - for example, it will give us negative characteristics. ”

N. entered SUSU in 2013, immediately after graduation.

- I chose this particular university, because before my eyes was an example of a friend who graduated from SUSU and then got a pilot in the Ural Airlines. I knew that in Chelyabinsk flight practice was organized in accordance with the documents of the IKAO ( *international civil aviation organization. - *and. J. ): for example, ICAO rules prescribe that if you flew over 18 hours with an instructor, and the instructor gave you admission, then you can make the first independent flight. It was in Chelyabinsk. In other universities, it was problematic to start flying alone, although this is very important that in a critical situation, if something happened to the partner, not be at a loss and be able to land the plane.

According to N., after the first year, their entire group went into the army. “We could go to the army at the end of the university. But then there would be a risk of forgetting what we were taught. As far as I understand, the university or chlug had some kind of ties with the military, because we were sent to serve in the air forces. After the army, we returned, and again plunged into theory and flights, ”he says.

The fact that students of SUSU may have problems with receiving certificates of aviation personnel have become known back in 2016. N. Then began training in the third, last, course.

A letter from the Federal Air Transport Agency came to the university.

Letter of the Federal Air Transport Agency-to the South Ural State University

“We inform you that on 08/26/2016, the validity of certificate No. 216 issued by the Federal Air Transport Agency for the Chelavia Aviation Training Center (since 2015 - Chluga). The issuance of a new certificate to the Chlug management was denied <...> to the students who have passed the preparation in Chlug after 08/27/2016, the issuance of certificates of aviation personnel will be refused. To complete the flight training of aviation specialists, we recommend that you attract legal entities with a certificate. ”

Having received this letter, the rector of SUSU Alexander Shestakov turned to the transport prosecutor's office.

And the prosecutor's office sided with the students.

Caution of the prosecutor's office to officials of the Ural Federal Air Force

“Given the presence of information testifying to the refusal of the Ural territorial department of the Federal Air Transport Agency in the issuance of certificates of aviation personnel to future graduates of the South Ural State University due to the lack of a certificate of the Aviation Training Center, there are sufficient reasons to believe that their rights may be violated. In order to prevent the violation of the federal law <...>, the official of the Ural MTU of the Federal Air Transport Agency has been a warning. In case of failure to fulfill the requirements set forth in the indicated warning, the person to whom it was announced may be held accountable in the manner prescribed by law. ”

- This letter of the prosecutor’s office seemed to have removed all the questions. The university gave us a referral to practice. In Chlug, they explained to us that the certificate that was discussed in a letter of the Federal Air Transport Agency is needed for programs of additional professional education, and not for the secondary vocational education program we studied. We flew off on a two -engine aircraft set for 10 hours. We worked on simulators, handed over state exams and received diplomas in June 2017. After that, we went to the Federal Air Transport Agency to take a test to receive a certificate of aviation personnel. This is the last document necessary to start working with a pilot. In July 2017, I successfully passed the test. And a month later ... received a refusal to issue a certificate. For the same reason, Chlug does not have a certificate.

Over the next one and a half years, students tried to sue with the Federal Air Transport Agency, but the courts certainly took the side of the department.

"Assistance"

On April 30, 2019, Dmitry Medvedev’s answer appeared on the website of the Russian government to the letter of graduates of the SUSU. In the form of an order.

The commission of Prime Minister D. Medvedev-Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Education and Science

“The Ministry of Defense of Russia and the Ministry of Transport of Russia to make a final decision on the issue of receiving certificates of commercial aviation pilots by graduates of South Ural State University. Report the results to the Government of the Russian Federation. STRISE - June 3, 2019. "

A letter with similar requirements to the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Transport and the Federal Air Transport Agency sent by Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova.

Appeal of Deputy Prime Minister T. Golikova to the Ministry of Transport and the Federal Air Transport Agency

“Provide assistance in admission to activities in accordance with the received education and qualifications of citizens who were studied at the South Ural State University for Educational Educational Institutions of Civil Aviation Aviation Aviation Aviation Personnel (qualification“ pilot ”) and received a refusal of the Federal Air Transport Agency in the issuance of evidence of commercial aviation pilots.”

However, to this time, no assistance in solving the problem has not been provided to graduates of SUSU. The only decision made by them is the same, the Central District Court of Chelyabinsk - to recognize all flight education in the SUSU illegal.

In the Federal Air Transport Agency, to a request from Novaya Gazeta, about the measures taken to assist the graduates of SUSU, the refusal to issue evidence of commercial pilots is due to the fact that the university during their training committed violation of the requirements of the air code.

Rosavision response - Novaya Gazeta

“The FGAOU checks in the SUSU showed that there were violations in equipping the material and technical base, the instructor composition had no conclusions about the suitability for flight work as a pilot-instructor, and there were no approved preparation program approved by the established procedure. There were no documents confirming the passage by students of training on simulators <...> The content and volume of flight training of graduates of SUSU did not meet the established requirements. ”

To resolve the situation, according to the Rosavia, a program for the preparation of commercial pilots, developed by St. Petersburg State University of Civil Aviation, was approved. The program provided for the possibility of re -appropriate raiding results and "determining the volume of an individual program for each graduate of SUSU."

In 2018, according to the Federal Air Transport Agency, the rector of SUSU Alexander Shestakov, to resolve the situation, assumed obligations to pay for the costs of training graduates [at St. Petersburg University]. However, he later stated that there was no money for this.

“In 2018, SUSU did not take appropriate measures to resolve the issue of training 33 citizens as part of the reception campaign of 2018. The St. Petersburg State University of Civil Aviation is ready to receive 33 citizens who had previously trained in SUSU in the case of SU UU, financing issues. ”

— Знаете, я готов уже и переучиваться, хотя в своей квалификации не сомневаюсь, — говорит Н. — Я летал один, сам поднимал и сажал самолеты. Еще раз повторю: наше обучение проходило в полном соответствии с международными стандартами. В государственных училищах такого не было. Намного правильнее было бы пройти дополнительные испытания или пересдать практику. Но если нужно потратить еще несколько лет — что ж, я готов. Потому что небо — это осознанный выбор.

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