UK Instructor Shortage Prompts Raft of Training Sponsorship Offers
Over recent years, FTN has regularly reported on an impending shortage of flying instructors, especially in the UK. There is now little doubt that there is a widespread shortage of instructors in the UK aviation industry, with many flying schools reporting difficulties in recruiting and retaining instructors. In some cases this shortage is leading to students having difficulties in booking training slots and FTN is aware of at least...
FTEJerez Flight Instructor Career Development Programme
FTEJerez, the Spain-based professional flight training school, is offering a fully-sponsored flight instructor programme, the ‘FI Career Development programme (FICD)’. Available to EU candidates who hold a current EASA CPL and Class 1 medical, successful applicants will be offered a fully sponsored FI rating with all training and accommodation costs covered by FTEJerez. On completion of the FI rating the selected candidates will flow...
ACS launch Flight Instructor Sponsorship
Perth-based ACS Flight Training have launched a sponsorship programme designed to assist the successful individual to achieve the Flight Instructor Rating and secure full-time employment with ACS Flight Training as a Flight Instructor. ACS say that the programme allows candidates who would otherwise struggle to fund the course some assistance with fees, and will also encourage pilots to enter an instructional career path. The...
Teaching Threat and Error Management
Include threat and error management from the beginning of flight training. For an activity peppered with so many potential hazards, aviation has achieved a remarkable safety level since its perilous early days, most especially when thinking about public transport (or ‘Commercial Air Transport’) operation in recent decades. Much of the progress in the safety arena has come not just from technological advances per se, but from an...
10 Elixir Aircraft Ordered for Airways Aviation Academy
Airways Aviation Academy, a global flight training academy, has signed an agreement to pre-order 10 Elixir Aircraft. Marwan Atalla, Executive Chairman of Airways Aviation, said: “The Elixir is a safe aircraft, and has been designed taking into consideration safety, ease of maintenance, low operating costs, and suitability for flight training, which matches our goal to provide optimal training for our students.” Atalla was a...
