The Oasis Technical Institute campus at sunrise: an aviation flight line with training aircraft and helicopters on the left, a trades yard with a drilling rig and service trucks on the right, split by a central road beneath the banner 'Two Trades, One Institute'. The five-year program

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Five years, four phases, one exit that belongs to you.

Two hundred weeks. The first eighty put everyone on both sides of campus — airfield and trades yard. The next eighty turn that exposure into certification. The last forty turn certification into ownership.

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The phase spine

Every phase has an exit condition. You don't advance on time served — you advance on demonstrated competence.

1.0Weeks 1–80 · Years 1–2

Shared core

Nobody specialises yet. Everyone rotates through all eight trades and the full aviation ground sequence, alternating four-week blocks between the yard and the flight line. Safety and technical literacy come first because everything after them depends on both.

  • NCCER Core — completed Year 1
  • OSHA 30-hour Construction — completed Year 2
  • AWS Certified Welder (CW) — target Year 2
  • Private Pilot License, Airplane — Year 1, week 36
  • Commercial Pilot, Instrument and Multi-Engine — Year 2
2.0Weeks 81–160 · Years 3–4

Specialisation

Now you choose depth. Most students take certifications from both sides rather than one — the schedule is built to allow it, because a helicopter pilot who can weld and a well driller who holds an A&P are each worth more than either half.

  • Helicopter PPL, CPL and Instrument — Years 3–4
  • A&P Mechanic Certificate — Year 3, week 112
  • Flight Instructor and Part 107 Remote Pilot — Years 3–4
  • ASE Master Automobile plus T-series diesel — Year 4
  • Plumbing and electrical apprenticeship registration — Year 3
  • Well Driller (NGWA CWD) and Water Filtration (WQA) — Years 3–4
3.0Weeks 161–200 · Year 5

Capstone and transition

Two tracks, declared in week 161. Track A places you inside a working Oasis division as a paid apprentice. Track B gives you the year to build and defend a business plan for a division of your own. Both tracks sit the same knowledge certification.

  • ESOP and business-literacy intensive — weeks 165–166
  • Knowledge certification assessment — weeks 176–178
  • Track A — internship deep work inside a division
  • Track B — business plan, committee review, capital request
4.0After graduation

Ownership

Graduation is an ownership event, not a ceremony. Your ESOP enrolment completes, the annuity opened on your first day keeps compounding, and you either join a division as an employee-owner or open one under the Oasis name.

  • ESOP shares — vested on the plan schedule, see Ownership
  • Annuity — opened at enrolment, funded by company revenue
  • Division option — capital, brand and mentorship, see Divisions

What the core actually teaches

Seven competencies every student carries out of the first two years, regardless of which side of campus they end up on.

  • Safety firstApply safety protocols across aviation, trades and general workplace environments. Recognise hazards, use PPE correctly, respond to emergencies.
  • Technical literacyRead technical manuals, interpret schematics and blueprints, perform dimensional math, use measurement instruments accurately.
  • Physical competenceMaintain the fitness that hands-on trade work and flight operations actually require.
  • Communication and teamworkWork in teams, communicate clearly under pressure, and document work so the next person can rely on it.
  • Business fundamentalsAccounting, budgeting and contract basics — the business side of skilled trades and aviation services.
  • Financial literacyPersonal finance, credit, debt avoidance, savings, and how the ESOP and annuity model works in your favour.
  • Cross-disciplinary awarenessFoundational competence in both aviation and trades — enough to make the specialisation decision with evidence instead of a guess.

How close the instruction is

Maximum instructor-to-student ratios
Classroom instruction25 : 1
Workshop and lab12 : 1
Automotive bay10 : 1
Welding lab8 : 1
Flight training, dual2 : 1
Flight training, solo supervised1 : 1

Cohorts, not lecture halls

Ratios this tight are the reason the program runs five years instead of two. A welding lab at 8:1 means an instructor watches your bead, not a room. A dual flight lesson is one instructor and one student in the aircraft.

Progression is gated by pass/fail milestones with a published remediation policy — falling behind triggers support and a mentor, not removal. Students entering without a diploma or GED follow an integrated basic-skills pathway during Year 1 at no extra cost.

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The shape of a week

Time on the airfield and time in the yard trade places as you move through the program. Nobody is ever only one thing.

Years 1–2
Year 3
Year 4
Year 5

Gold = aviation wing · blue = trades wing · pale = capstone, where the split stops mattering. Proportions are indicative of scheduled contact hours, not a fixed timetable.

Two hundred weeks is a long time. So is the rest of your working life.

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