CityJet offer new cadet pilot programme
Irish airline CityJet has selected CAE for the delivery of a new EASA ATPL integrated training course, as part of the ‘Climb High Mentored Cadet Programme’. Ten cadets will begin training by the end of 2016 at CAE Oxford Aviation Academy in Oxford, UK and Phoenix, Arizona (USA). Upon completion of their training, the selected candidates will be employed by CityJet. Headquartered in Dublin, CityJet’s main base is London City airport...
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...
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...
