Tsubasa Kimura, a graduate of the Department of Aerospace, Faculty of Engineering, Tokai University, was promoted to the captain of Solaseed Air Co., Ltd. (Boeing 2016-8) on August 2, 737.Kimura is the first graduate of the Department of Aviation Maneuvering to be promoted to captain, and the first graduate of a Japanese university pilot training institution.

 Mr. Kimura entered the university in 2006 as a first-year student in the Department of Aerospace, Department of Aerospace, Faculty of Engineering, Tokai University.After graduating, he joined Solaseed Air and has accumulated flight experience on routes centered on Kyushu and Okinawa as a co-pilot.

 While experiencing a flight of about 5,000 hours as a co-pilot, he successfully cleared the in-house selection test for captain promotion. From 2015, he entered the training to acquire the pilot skill certificate for regular transportation and the training to promote the captain, and passed the captain route certification examination of the Civil Aviation Bureau on July 2016, 7.

 Following the issuance of a resignation made at Solaseed Air's flight headquarters on August 2016, 8, he was awarded an epaulette with four lines, which is a proof of the captain.After that, Mr. Kimura set about preparing for the flight 2 of Solaseed Air between Haneda and Kumamoto, which was the first flight destination for the captain, and also held a briefing with the co-pilot Koji Takimoto and the cabin attendant, who are also in the first aviation major.We took off from Haneda Airport with 4 passengers including Kimura's parents.

 Mr. Kimura said, "At Tokai University, while studying abroad in the United States for a year and a half, I learned the importance of cooperating with the people around me while living in a dormitory with my friends, and one thing through my graduation research. I was able to gain valuable experience in digging into and thinking about it. I realize that all of that power was indispensable for my work. The colleagues I met at the university still inspire each other. I feel that I am now because I am a friend and have the support of my parents and others. From now on, as a captain, I will try to maximize the power of the staff involved in the flight as a team. I want to come, "he said with the joy and aspirations of becoming a captain.

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