École nationale de l'aviation civile

The ENAC ( Ecole nationale de l' aviation civile ) is a company incorporated in the summer of 1949 in Orly, near Paris, French National School of Civil Aviation ( General Aviation area ). Since 1968, it has its registered office and educational facilities in Toulouse, the French stronghold of aircraft and research in the field of aerospace. The ENAC is one of the four French aeronautics colleges and the only one that forms the air traffic controllers and aeronautical engineer of the French aviation authority DGAC, which corresponds to the German Federal Aviation Office. In addition, it is mainly of pilots, engineers and flight dispatchers.

On 1 January 2011, the ENAC merged with the SEFA (Service d' Exploitation de la Formation Aéronautique ). Since this association ENAC is the largest European university for civil aviation.

Courses

The courses ENAC divided into five main areas:

• Aviation
• Traffic
• Electronics
• Mathematics and Computer Engineering
• Foreign Languages ​​and Social Sciences

Admission requirements and tuition fees

Students with French nationality need at least a high school for enrollment. For the training to become an engineer or air traffic controllers a previous study of four semesters is required to pass the inevitable entrance exam. For the student life to professional pilots, there are drastic restrictions on access.

Exchange students from abroad must contact to match the shooting conditions and scholarships to the foreign university where they are enrolled. Partner ENAC under the Erasmus and Pegasus - exchange programs are in Germany the universities of Aachen, Berlin, Braunschweig, Darmstadt, Munich and Stuttgart.

The course is free of charge. Students who undertake at baseline, seven years working as a guard for the DGAC are already paid during their studies.

Duration of study

The course lasts one program to the 7 months to 6 semesters.

Practical Information

In the campus of ENAC students are several dormitories, a cafeteria, a library, computer rooms, sports halls, tennis courts and a fitness room. Several clubs offer a cultural program. Erwähenenswert are further of the flying club at school, which grants the students of the ENAC favorable conditions for the acquisition of their private pilot's license, the Planetarium and the air traffic control simulator, which is considered the most modern in Europe.

The city of Toulouse is home to, among numerous other attractions the Cité de l' espace, a theme park in the topic space and outer space.

Famous alumnus

• Gérard Mestrallet, a French manager.