Leading Edge opts for Elixir
French planemaker Elixir Aircraft has announced that it has signed a contract for the operation of five Elixir training aircraft by UK ATO Leading Edge Aviation (LEAL). The agreement will see Green Aerolease, a French aircraft rental company, handling the lease of the five aircraft to LEAL, which will compliment its current fleet of 21 training aircraft located at its London Oxford Airport, UK and Alhama, southern Spain training...
L3Harris partners with Aer Lingus
L3Harris Airline Academy has secured a new training agreement with Aer Lingus UK, marking the first time the two organisations have collaborated directly for pilot training services. The one-year contract encompasses a wide range of training programmes designed to support pilots at various stages of their careers. The training package includes A330 Dry Training, Cross Crew Qualification (CCQ), Line Flying Under Supervision (LIFUS),...
Wizz Air UK tags 20 British cadet pilots
European carrier Wizz Air has selected 20 cadet pilots part way through their training and given them conditional offers of employment through its ‘tagging scheme’. Pilot cadets from two UK flight training academies – Leading Edge Aviation Academy and L3Harris Airline Academy – were given their conditional offer of employment at a ceremony in London’s West End. Wizz Air has adopted a ‘tagging’ scheme, which involves...
Pilot Careers Live – Dublin 19.10.24
This Saturday, 19 October, Pilot Careers Live is making its annual visit to the Croke Park Conference Centre in Dublin. The event, designed as a one-stop shop for prospective commercial pilots seeking to learn about commercial pilot careers and the various training routes available, will feature a number of Europe’s largest flight training academy’s promoting their training programmes, alongside representatives from...
The heady days of Hamble
We recently came across this short film of one individual’s training journey to become a pilot for BOAC on the Vickers VC10 in the early 1970s. Training at the famous Hamble College of Air Training, established jointly by the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) and British European Airways (BEA), which later merged to form British Airways, the school was created in the late 1950s to combat a growing shortage of ex...
