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Training

Academy provided 127,368 hours of training in 2014, divided into 63,780
hours of ab-initio training, 9,300 hours of advanced training, 27,620 hours
of continuous training, 16,828 hours of training for foreign customers,
8,374 hours of language training, and 1,484 hour of additional training
conducted on the Flight Simulator and via e-learning.

In addition to continuation of the ADI-TWR RAD Ab-initio course, which also
included the TM1 specialization, professional training offered new Instructor
courses, two ACS/RAD conversion courses, two new specialization courses
for Skill Examiner and Assessor, three new Supervisor training courses, and
a new FIS operator and TM1 technician course.

In addition, there were training projects for 12 colleagues from various
systems, dedicated to traffic management at the former Military Airports
of Rome Ciampino and Verona Villafranca, which since May have been
controlled by ENAV. These activities consolidated a methodology and
work model to handle delicate transitional phases and guarantee the high
safety levels ensured by the ENAV standard.

With regard to foreign customers, special attention was given early in the
year to a training course for Malaysian controllers, aimed at developing
the skills needed to operate in the new area and with the new procedures
defined with the opening of the third runway at the Kuala Lumpur airport.
This project stage included first courses for 130 tower controllers and 50
approach controllers at the Kuala Lumpur ACC, for a total of about 14,000
training hours. The courses, conducted in 9 modules of 6 days for the Tower
part and 5 modules of 8 days for the approach part, ended in the second
week of May to coincide with activation of the new work procedures and
opening of the third runway and second control tower at the Kuala Lumpur
airport.

Other activities with foreign customers included seminars for Aeronautics
Technical Schools and weather training for ENEA personnel at the Antarctic
project.

In addition:

l the reorganization of the Academy and increased focus on core
business activities allowed the beginning of a preparatory phase
of a large training and development project dedicated to training
operative personal in non-technical skills and aimed at improving
traffic management;

l a pilot edition of the “Refresher OJTI” program, created for 57 OJTI
of the Rome ACC with e-learning materials, tool kits and workshops
in the facilities, will offer an update on new training methods and
modalities to instructors working in the facilities;

l financed training: 13 new training plans were begun in 2014. With
regard to reportable activities for 2014, these plans generated a
potential economic return of about ¤819 thousand from Fondimpresa.