This is my first post so it might not be in the right location but the information I have which was casually given to me by a friend and family member who doesn't know each other.
My friend works at the now closed Williams Air Force Base (he retired years ago from a career as an USAF Captain) but stayed on when a company bought all the fighter jet training simulators.
The Government continued to occasionally use the facility over the years but has long since abandoned it. (it is an International airport now taking over a lot of Phoenix's Sky Harbor air traffic).
The company that now owns it (it has passed through several private companies in the last few years) told their employees that they would soon be training pilots from 'non-USA' countries like China!
My brothers wife told me she got a job (she is a lawyer) with a company that is representing a Chinese pilot training program. The company she works for isn't at the former AFB nor did she even know anything about what my friend told me.
It might be totally on the up and up and not be anything out of the ordinary but I (being an ex AF pilot in 'nam still find it a little disconcerting).
When I find out a little more I will post it.
What do you guys and gals think? Anyone heard anything in the news I missed?

I don't thinkyou should be worried. The rationale could be just expertise at the right price. I think also that airports have to use certain government clearance orders for people using facilities there, so they would all be known to the government machine, there is one to establish a person's identity and the mode of business to avoid money laundering, (illegal transfer of money) and another which is called developed vetting, which is a high level of security clearance, while these guys are probably not screened for the latter, thay most likely will need the former as standard. There are a prolifera of other screenings that they may need too, and it may vary from country to country.

Thanks for the thread op. I have said it again and again. America has been sold out!! The treasonist Government Officials in the seats of power that we trusted, have and are still playing a game with us that they have predetermined to win. This all fits with the spraying of the skies and moves by N Korea as well as Iran for nuclear weapons that have been left unchecked. Our leaders are on the take and they have deadly plans for us.. You watch and see what happens to us when the move is made openly and there is a battered at best military thats supposed to defend "Us" Yes you and me, The People. I challange anyone to show any proof that even resembles anything that is rightous coming from our leaders to The American people other than lies and promises.

it is just one aspect of Jobs Stimulus...its been going on since 1995 at least


instead of pilot training at military bases. the training of aliens or visa holders is being outsourced to private schools so there is no concentration of foreigners who might be radicals too


it backfired in the run-up to the 911 operation...
but homeland security feels they got control of all aspects of any situation (at least for now... not whenever the approx 20,000 stingers & RPGs get smuggled in from the Libya cache and sold to radicals/militants/terrorists/mad-as-hell-Armageddonists from Iran or Pakistan bent on attacking the 'great satan' USA

My guess is the pilots being trained at Willie are ROC pilots, not PRC.

Thanks for all your replies and feedback.
Also, I do know some international flights are coming into Gateway, my sister flew from Detroit last winter and she comes in there as it is closer than Sky Harbor. But, I might be wrong.
And I checked with my sister-in-law, they are Chinese pilots.

Well, better go to bed..... uh oh, it's 12:01 AM here in AZ and didn't I read on ATS that the world might end today? LOL, would hate to sleep through it though!