Wizz Air partners with Urbe Aero Flight Academy
Italian ATO Urbe Aero Flight Academy has announced a new commercial pilot training partnership with Wizz Air. The Wizz Air Pathway Programme pre-selects cadets for future roles with the low cost carrier before they embark on an 18-month integrated ATPL training programme with Urbe Aero. On successful completion of training, graduates will then complete A320 type rating training with Wizz Air before joining the airline as first...
Emirates Flight Training academy adds DA42 to training fleet
Emirates Flight Training Academy (EFTA), have taken delivery of a new fleet of Diamond DA42-VI light piston twin-engine aircraft, enabling the academy to commence multi-engine piston (MEP) training, serving as a bridge between training on a single engine and a light jet, and rounding off EFTA’s training fleet to 30 aircraft. With a range of 1,225 nautical miles, the aircraft made their journey from Vienna, Austria to Dubai with EFTA’s...
Industry calls on government to enact student funding protection
Industry associations are calling on government to enact financial protection measures to prevent students from losing their training investment in the event of a flying school folding. Following the recent demise of two large Approved Training Organisations (ATOs), Tayside Aviation and FTA-Global, the British Airline Pilots Association (BALPA), Bristol Groundschool, Wings Alliance and Seager Publishing have written a joint letter to...
Degraded Visual Environment training
Rotary flight training school Helicopter Services is launching a new training programme aimed at equipping pilots with new knowledge and techniques for dealing with flight in a degraded visual environment. Flight in a Degraded Visual Environment (DVE) is unfamiliar, can be extremely challenging and ultimately lead to an accident, explains Helicopter Services MD and chief pilot Leon Smith. “By understanding planning, avoidance and...
Cotswold Airport Aviation Scholarship
Running since 2007, the annual Cotswold Airport Aviation Scholarship is designed to introduce the younger generation to the various career opportunities available within the aviation industry through a mixture of on-site and off-site visits involving industry expert talks, engineering facility tours, and hands-on flying experiences. As with previous scholarships, the programme is open to people who reside in Gloucestershire,...
