Prince’s Trust Cadets Complete Scholarship Initiative with L3Harris Technologies
The first three young people to take part in The Prince’s Trust flying scholarship have completed their training with L3Harris Technologies. The flying scholarship initiative, created by L3Harris and The Prince’s Trust as part of the RAF 100 Legacy, aims to increase diversity within the aviation industry and help more people to achieve their dream of becoming a pilot. The first students, all from Northern Ireland, undertook...
Aerobility raises record £101,000
British aviation charity Aerobility has raised £101,000 through a record-breaking auction. The auction took place on Saturday, 30th November at the Sofitel Heathrow T5 as part of one of the charity’s biggest annual fundraising event, the Aerobility Aviators’ Ball. The event brought together over 400 people from civilian and military aviation communities, as well as members of the charity, friends, family, supporters and members of the...
Northampton Sywell gets GNSS Instrument Approaches
The UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has approved a set of GNSS (satellite navigation) instrument approaches to Sywell airfield near Northampton. The newly-approved procedures are some of the very few GNSS instrument approaches to a UK General Aviation airfield so far approved by the CAA, which has been criticised (not least by the Minster for Transport Grant Shapps) for the slow pace of approvals of GNSS instrument approaches, with...
VA Welcomes First Titan Airways Cadets of the New Decade
VA Airline Training (VA) has welcome their first airline sponsored trainees of 2020 – a course of four Titan Airways cadets into training at their Cambridge training centre. The cadets were welcomed along with two self-sponsored cadets by VA’s Managing Director Anthony Petteford, Titan Airways’ Pilot Manager Captain Matthew Wilson and other senior personnel from both VA and Titan Airways. They now embark upon a programme of EASA...
British Man Becomes First to Qualify as an Airline Pilot with HIV
A British pilot with HIV has become the first to qualify as a commercial pilot and join an airline after battling to change the regulations governing the issue of a class 1 medical. James Bushe had always wanted to be an airline pilot, and after leaving university in 2009 he worked as a manager in the restaurant trade to earn the money to finance his training. In 2017 he was offered a place on an easyJet pilot training scheme, but at...
