What is an FTO?
An FTO flying school is an organisation which is managed, equipped and operated from a suitable place so as to provide flying training and/or synthetic trainer training together with ground school, if required, according to approved specific training programmes. The FTO will be approved by the Authority of the JAA(Joint Aviation Requirements) Member State and must comply with the JAR-FCL requirements. www.jaa.nl/introduction/Annex1.