Honourary Member Award Recipient:
Mr Amirudin Abdul Ghani
Technical Training, Aircraft Engineering,
Aviation Entreprenur

Mr.  Amirudin started his aviation career as a trainee aircraft engineer with Air New Zealand in 1975.  In 1980, he became a certifying Licensed Aircraft Engineer with Malaysia Airlines.

He resigned from the airline in 1985 to serve with the Department of Civil Aviation (DCA), Malaysia.  By the time he left for the private sector in 1993, he was DCA's Senior Assistant Director.

Over the years, he held several senior managerial positions such as the General Manager of SME Aviation Sdn Bhd, from which he oversaw the inital set-up and production of the first light aircraft manufacturing project in Malaysia.   He was also the General Manager of Asia Pacific Airlines Training Academy as well as the Technical Advisor for the initial set-up of the domestic operations of Asia Pacific Airlines.

He was also the Project Evaluator for the Malaysian Technology Development Corporation's Flarecraft project, and the Project Consultant to the Clark Aerospace Maintenance Centre (a Malaysian company based in the Philippines).

Appropriately, with his tremendous corporate and international experience, he decided to form his own companies:  Aero Precision Consultants in 1994, the Aero Precision Resources Sdn Bhd in 1997 and Aero Precision Multimedia Sdn Bhd in 1999 and later incorporated the training division of APR into APR-Aviation Training Centre Sdn Bhd as a dedicated training institution in 2005.

Presently, Mr Amirudin is the Managing Director of APR Group of companies and CEO/Accountable Manager for APR-Aviation Training Centre Sdn Bhd.  He manages a team of highly skilled and knowledgeable instructors providing aviation courses to the aviation industry.