Increase your gliding experience – gliding scholarships
Nov30

Increase your gliding experience – gliding scholarships

These awards offer solo glider pilot awards of up to £300 to gain flying experience and new qualifications. The competition is open to young people permanently resident in the UK who will have reached their 16th but not their 26th birthday on 1 April 2018. The scholarships are intended to help advance gliding skills for solo-standard glider pilots. Scholars will be asked to specify for what they would like funding. Typically awards...

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Improve your licences – flying bursaries
Nov29

Improve your licences – flying bursaries

These awards provide 3-5 hours of advanced flight training in single-engine piston aeroplanes to assist licenced pilots to gain additional flying qualifications or renew a rating. There are no age limits. The bursaries are intended to help Air League members who hold a valid pilot’s licence to gain additional flying qualifications or to renew a rating on their licence. Applicants must be permanently resident in the UK; hold a current...

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Haverfordwest consults on new instrument approaches
Nov29

Haverfordwest consults on new instrument approaches

Haverfordwest airfield in Wales has begun a consultation process to introduce two instrument approaches at the airfield which has previously only been available for aircraft able to make a VFR approach. The proposed GNSS procedures will be available on runway 03 and 21, and the airfield estimates that around 6% of annual traffic, or 220 flight per year, would use the satellite-guided approaches. In July 2016, Haverfordwest Aerodrome...

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Pilot Flight Academy (PFA) orders simulators
Nov28

Pilot Flight Academy (PFA) orders simulators

Pilot Flight Academy (PFA) based in Norway has ordered two new DA42 NG simulators from Diamond Aircraft in Austria in order to meet the growing demand for new airline pilots. CEO of PFA, Frode Granlund said: “These simulators are a part of our long-term strategy and expansion plan. We have invested highly in people and good administrative systems to be able to educate larger groups of future airline pilots. Currently, we have 150...

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Virtual Aviation secure funding for expansion
Nov27

Virtual Aviation secure funding for expansion

Cambridge-based Virtual Aviation (VA) has announced that it has secured multi-million pound funding to facilitate its expansion plans. The funding package comprises new equity investment and a substantial asset leasing facility to support the ongoing acquisition of additional new flight simulators. VA will take delivery of a brand new simulator at its Cambridge Airport Flight Training Centre before Christmas – and the asset...

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