Professional training software, seminars and workshops for the various Pilot aptitude tests

CEO / Captain

Matthias Schwarz

After graduating in high school Matthias Schwarz became a pilot and since 2007 he has been flying on long-haul routes in the function of a training and check captain.
From 2002 to 2006 he studied law at the University of Regensburg.
He was the founder of the company ToPilots GmbH Airline Preparations, ToAlpha GmbH Aviation Assessments and he remained there until selling his company shares in 2009.

Further qualifications : Crew Resource Management Instructor (CRMI), Language Proficiency examiner (LPE) ICAO Level 6

Director of studies

Dr. Rudolf Inkoferer

Mr. Inkoferer studied mathematics and physics at Regensburg University.
Both disciplines he still teaches at Regensburg college and performs teacher training in said disciplines.

Additionally he is working at Regensburg University as second examiner in theoretical physics as well as supervising didactic seminars in physics for prospective students of teaching.

Director of studies

Wolfgang Schwarz

Mr. Schwarz studied chemistry and biology at Regensburg University.
He has been teaching in a state faculty. His professional and personal competence enabled him to teach as seminar supervisor and country coordinator nation wide. He was educating and assessing teachers in Bavaria and is a second examiner at Regensburg University. His disciplines are organic chemistry and didactics of chemistry.
Established at the Institute of school quality and educational development in Munich, he was working on establishing audit tasks for leaving certs / high school graduation.

In 2007 he received the 1st price from the upper palatine government for his engagement and continuous work in future tasks of education.

Commercial captain

Christian Peyrer

Up to 2012 Christian Peyrer has been flying on European routes right up to Dubai and Saudi Arabia. Yet he always wanted to become a teacher. From 2011 he teaches in ground school and the simulator at AeronautX flight school in Linz (Austria).
Over the years he had completed more than 4.000 flying hours in teaching flight students in the simulator as well as on actual flights.
Since 2017 Christian works as CTKI (Chief Theoretical Knowledge Instructor).

Here at Vimana his responsibilities are assessment schooling, preparation for simulator checks, screening preps for the “ready entries”, as well as the PIT- , FQ-SIM preparations for “ab Initio” applicants.

Assessment Coach

Dorothee Sauer

Mrs. Sauer combines a long standing experience in the flight training business. After her graduation she started working as lecturer at Regensburg University in the section of further education and in self employment as trainer and consultant in the occupational qualification, candidacy and rhetoric.
Since 2005 on she has been working as Flight Attendent on short- and long haul routes.
On top of that she is a qualified Stewardess for Business Class (1st Class) and is a crew member of Special flights and Press events.

Certified psychologist

Dipl. Psych. Stefanie Orthuber

After graduation, Stefanie Orthuber studied psychology in Regensburg.
Before she joined Vimana, Stefanie worked on a Bavarian high school where she looked after pupils from the 5th grade to the 10th.

Anita Heiglauer, BEd BA (hons)

Mrs. Heiglauer studied English in London and in Austria.
She is a qualified TEFL teacher and ICAO LPLE examiner.
With her company ‘The English Zone’ Anita is responsible for the ICAO language proficiency test.
The coaching, Anita provides, is available in one-to-one sessions in Linz and via Skype sessions.

Captain

Dr. med. Peter Knauer

Capt. Knauer studied medicine. Parallel to working as a doctor, he obtained the pilot license for commercial flights. He then changed his profession and began his flight career with LTU.
After more than 20tsd flying hours and experience as training- and check captain with Condor, he quit his active flight career

Director of studies

Fritz Pöppel

Fritz Pöppel took English studies, American studies and German philology, in Nashville (Vanderbuilt), Münster and Regensburg.
He is employed on a German high school teaching English and German.
He also provides classes at evening school in Regensburg and adult education.