Boeing Forecasts Unprecedented Pilot Demand
Boeing has released the 2018 update of its annual Pilot and Technician outlook, forecasting that the global aviation industry will need 790,000 pilots over the next 20 years. Boeing say that this figure represents double the current pilot workforce and the figure is the most significant demand in the outlook’s nine-year history. In part, the leap in projected demand has occurred because the Boeing forecast now includes data from...
L3 Awarded Royal Air Force Multi-Engine Pilot Training Contract
L3 Commercial Aviation has been selected by the Royal Air Force to support the training of future RAF multi-engine pilots. The three-year contract represents the first time that L3 has provided such training for the RAF. Following a competitive tender process, L3 was selected to provide a bespoke solution for approximately 100 trainee pilots in total. Trainees will undertake a course similar to a Commercial Pilot Licence (CPL) with...
LAA Rally Busiest Since Return to Sywell
The 2018 Light Aircraft Association Rally broke records at Sywell Aerodrome in Northamptonshire. The good late summer weather ensured a record turnout of over 4,500 visitors and a total of 958 visiting aircraft over the three days of the show. At one point on Saturday afternoon there were over 400 aircraft parked on Sywell’s grass. An enlarged exhibitor area also set a new high in the number of companies and organisations on show,...
Line in the Air?
As FTN went to print last month, the UK Civil Aviation Authority published its decision to grant Farnborough Airport new controlled airspace, some six years after the possibility of controlled airspace for Farnborough had first been formally mooted. The airspace proposal put forward by airport operators TAG Farnborough Airport was modified by the CAA, in order it said to afford easier access to non-commercial, light aircraft traffic,...
New “Declared Training Orgaisation” Regulations Get EASA Go Ahead
UK CAA announces all Registered Training Facilities, RTF, to convert to Declared Training Organisations, DTO, status by the Spring 2019, in a move to cut down ‘planned’ operational requirements for flying schools offering private flying qualifications. The welcome decision will require all private pilot flying schools that are classed as Registered Training Facilities to convert to the new simpler Declared Training Organisations...
Cork Institute of Technology Launch BA ‘International Business with Aviation Studies’
Cork Institute of Technology (CIT) has launched Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in International Business with Aviation Studies – a programme specifically aimed at those who have been trained as pilots in the aviation industry. Delivered online, the programme builds upon the training and development that pilots undertake and combines it with extensive business knowledge and skills. The aviation sector plays an important role in...
