Boeing partners with Emirates Flight Training Academy
Boeing has announced a partnership with the Emirates Flight Training Academy, a division of Emirates Airline, to collaborate on a comprehensive training curriculum and software infrastructure to help train pilot cadets. “We are leveraging Boeing’s expertise in airline pilot training to identify opportunities to enhance the Academy’s curriculum” said Captain Alan Stealey, principal, Emirates Flight Training Academy. Boeing is creating...
Air Cadet flying to be restructured
The Air Cadet organisation has announced a significant restructuring of its Air Cadet Volunteer Gliding Squadrons (VGS). All 146 of the VGS Viking gliders and Vigilant motor gliders have been grounded since Easter 2014 and even now there is no certain date for the fleet to return to service. The RAF Air Cadets is a UK-based, RAF-sponsored organisation with just under 40,000 members aged between 12 and 20 years. It is made up of the...
easyJet to underwrite MPL training loans
As part of its ongoing pilot recruitment drive, easyJet is running an additional Multi-Crew Pilot Licence (MPL) training programme with CTC Aviation. The fulltime CTC WINGS MPL programme is designed to lead straight to a job as first officer with easyJet. Significantly, for those without access to the necessary training funds, the airline will act as underwriter of training loans, ranging in size from £30,000 to £100,000. Successful...
An end to medicals for private pilots?
Medical requirements for UK private pilots and PPL instructors are to be simplified later this year, removing the need for any form of medical examination or certification for many PPL holders, bringing their medical standards in line with requirements for private motorists. Arising from proposals put forward during the Government’s Red Tape Challenge in 2013, aimed at reducing the regulatory burden placed on General Aviation (GA), a...
