When New Yuan Aeronautics was preparing to connect with students from the Aerospace Institute to launch a free 80-hour initial training flight program, it created a strong impact among the students and teachers, as well as on the surrounding universities.
According to the internal calculation of Xinyuan Company at 600 yuan per hour, the cost of fuel and aircraft preparation alone for every 80 hours amounted to 48,000 yuan. Add in the initial training fees for instructors, costs for dedicated transport services, and so on, and one student would have to spend at least seventy or eighty thousand yuan.
The Aerospace Institute had a total of 2311 teachers, and 2077 were approved after review. This equated to 150 million yuan.
