Skyborne recruiting FIs
Skyborne Airline Academy is recruiting for Flight Instructors to join its Gloucestershire Airport operation. Skyborne is seeking multi-engine rated FIs, although has indicated that for the right instructor the academy is willing to sponsor upgrade of single-engine rated FIs to multi-engine. FIs will earn a generous basic salary of £60k, with a competitive uncapped bonus scheme in place (subject to realistic and achievable targets)....
Skyborne expands electric future
Skyborne’s US pilot training facility is enhancing its environmentally focussed future with the recent announcement that it has signed a letter of intent with Bye Aerospace for an additional 30 eFlyer all-electric training aircraft.The commitment builds on Skyborne’s 2020 order of 10 eFlyers, bringing the total to 40 electric aircraft now set to join the academy’s US fleet in Vero Beach, Florida.Producing zero CO2 emissions and with...
A new benchmark for flight instructor pay?
Since the recovery began from the pandemic and airlines began recruiting hard to operate their aircraft, a shortage of flight instructors has been a growing concern at both PPL and commercial pilot level in Europe (and pretty much everywhere else it seems). This is hardly a new occurrence, with periodic shortages of flight instructors a perennial thorn in the side of the flight training industry. Now, Gloucester-based Skyborne Airline...
Skyborne offers Flybe crew support package
Gloucestershire Airport-based Skyborne Airline Academy are inviting former Flybe pilots to apply for a specialist Skyborne sponsored flight instructor programme, and are also offering three hours of free time in Skyborne’s Boeing 737 MAX simulator, to prepare for the simulator assessment phase of any future job interview, for those pilots wishing to continue their airline careers with other carriers. Lee Woodward, Skyborne CEO, said:...