Nippon Aviation Solutions

“Driven by Passion – Defined by Professionalism – Inspired by Flight”

The Sky's The Limit

Ready to Perform Ready to Belong

Professional flight crews, carefully matched to your operation. Our proprietary cultural and technical in-house screening ensures every pilot we place is ready to perform and ready to belong.

Our Crewing Solutions

what can we do for you?

Flight Crew
Leasing

Flexible, full vetted crew capacity, deployed when and where you operations needs it.

Flight Crew
Screening

Rigorous technical and cultural pre-screening, so every candidate arrives flight deck ready.

Flight Crew
Recruitment

Connecting operators with professionalism flight crews flight crews, matched for skill and cultural fit.

Philipp Ehrler

Founder & Crew Manager

ENG / GER / SUI

Chiharu Kato

Relations Manager, Japan

ENG / JAP

Over two decades of experience

The Faces Behind Our operation

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Whether you’re an airline seeking crew or a pilot seeking your next opportunity, we look forward to hearing from you.

Our Selection Process

We pre-assess every candidate against the minimum requirements before presenting them — so our clients receive only qualified, selection-ready crew, saving their internal teams significant time and effort.

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Step 1

Crew Registration

Candidates register their interest by creating an account to begin the application process.

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Step 2

Digital Crew Portfolio

Candidates prepare a digital portfolio comprising a cover letter, résumé, and supporting documentation for submission.

3

Step 1

Personality & Culture Screening

Candidates complete an online cultural and personality assessment to determine alignment with the client company’s organisational culture.

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Step 4

ATPL Knowledge Screening

Candidates complete an Air Transport Pilot knowledge assessment to evaluate their foundational knowledge for the licence conversion process.

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Step 5

Aptitude Screening

Candidates undergo a series of aptitude assessments, including cognitive and multitasking evaluations, to measure their aptitude.

Crew Recruitment

Nippon Aviation Solutions recruits, screens and presents foreign flight crew to commercial and airline operators. Our role does not end with forwarding a CV. Each candidate is sourced deliberately, assessed objectively, and evaluated on their capacity to operate — and remain — within our clients operational environment.

The Digital Candidate Portfolio

Each candidate establishes a Digital Candidate Portfolio on our online platform: a single, continuously maintained record comprising a cover letter, a standardized aviation résumé formatted to our clients’ HR specifications, a complete documentation folder — licenses, ratings, medical certification, ICAO English proficiency evidence, logbook summaries — and a full record of assessment results.

Five-Step Pre-Screening

No candidate is presented until all five stages are complete and formally recorded.

The process begins with establishment of the Digital Candidate Portfolio — cover letter, résumé and documentation folder — and no candidate progresses until that set is complete, current and verified. There follows personality and cultural screening, conducted through our proprietary societal-fit instrument, which scores communication style, hierarchy orientation, ambiguity tolerance, adaptability and relocation readiness against a defined index. This is the stage most consistently omitted by others in our sector, and the one that most often accounts for placements that fail after arrival.

Candidates then undertake ATPL knowledge testing, reported by individual subject rather than as a single pass mark, followed by aptitude testing of working memory, divided attention, spatial orientation and task management under time pressure. The process concludes with review by on of our team member with airline flying experience, reconciled against the operator's HR-defined requirements and issued with a written recommendation.

Why It Matters?

Volume is not a service. We present a smaller number of carefully selected candidates, each supported by our internal assessment data. Our screening addresses not only professional criteria but personal and cultural suitability, materially improving the likelihood that our clients secure crew who remain in post — pilots who are comfortable within the company culture and settled in the wider culture in which they live.