Channel 5 to broadcast Carol Voderman’s solo flight around the world
TV personality Carol Vorderman’s attempt to become the ninth woman to fly solo around the world is being filmed for a Channel 5 TV documentary this summer. Following in the footsteps of pioneering female aviators, Carol will be landing in many of the same locations as they did as she travels through Europe, across Asia, north to the easternmost point of Russia, across the Pacific Ocean to the United States and finally through the...
Third Air BP’s Sterling Pilot Scholarship awarded
Air BP has awarded this year’s Sterling Pilot Scholarship to 17 year old Hertfordshire student, Robert Norris, who becomes the third awardee since the scholarship was launched in 2015. The scholarship, which is valued at around £10,000, aims to assist aspiring UK pilots with little or no experience of flying to achieve a Private Pilot’s Licence (PPL). Robert wants to use the scholarship to work towards fulfilling his dream of becoming...
LAA Armstrong-Isaacs Bursary Scheme Extended
Five 2018-2019 Armstrong-Isaacs bursaries will be available to any pilot under the age of 30 in U.K PPL training, contributing up to £1,500 to assist in the completion of their course. The funds will be lodged with the flying school of their choice and must be used exclusively for flying training or flight examinations. To qualify for these bursaries the young pilots are required to already have reached ‘first solo’...
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...
Grabbing the tiger by the tail
Now in its 11th year, the Sir Geoffrey de Havilland Flying Scholarship is once again open for applications, offering a £6,000 training fund towards the grant of a PPL undertaken in a DH82A Tiger Moth, the historic military trainer. The scholarship is provided by Livery institution, the Worshipful Company of Coachmakers, and is delivered by the Cambridge Flying Group (CFG), now relocated to Old Warden Aerodrome in Bedfordshire. It has...
