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Long-time Dominican commercial airline pilot Francisco Diaz writes in Diario Libre about a new non-profit that brings together Dominicans working as pilots abroad to promote improvements in local aviation and ensure keeping to the international best practices. The association is named the Asociación Dominicana de Aviación General (ADAG). Diaz has been spearheading efforts by local pilots to foster improvements to keep the Dominican Republic in the FAA Category 1, especially now that the country is the regional leader in tourism in the Caribbean and only second to Mexico in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Members of the new organization are captains of airplanes in major commercial airlines and even aerospace engineers working in NASA and companies such as Virgin Galactic.
In the Diario Libre contribution, he urges the local authorities to take...
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