In the final instalment of our questions and answers session with ex-Kura Aviation students, we caught up with Jack Denton, a 31-year old married man with two children, who retrained as a teacher before gaining employment on the Airbus A330 with UK based AirTanker. Hello Philip, tell us a little about yourself… I'm 31, married with a child (and another...
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easyJet has today announced that it will be launching a recruitment campaign called “For the love of Flying” to attract up to 450 new pilots at the beginning of June. This will be the largest recruitment drive in the airline's history – an increase on the record 426 recruited last year. Opportunities range from cadet pilots starting their career to...
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The Mike Langley Foundation is an ongoing initiative which will, for many years to come, positively influence the lives of aspiring pilots through sponsorship and funding opportunities. About the foundation: The Mike Langley Foundation is a charitable trust that aims to help those with a dream to become a commercial airline pilot, those with the passion to succeed but without...
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British Airways has been offering students work experience placements for many years now and their programme has recently been accredited as gold standard by Fair Train, meaning the placements on offer are of a very high quality. They are now offering this exciting Flight Operations placement to interested students. On offer are three-day placements at either Cardiff or Edinburgh during August...
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Have you ever looked into your flight bag before a flight and wondered if you have everything? In this article, we’ll round up those essential pieces of kit that will make your life easier at 2,000ft and make sure you’ve got everything you’re going to need next time you're flying on a sunny Sunday afternoon. The Headset I think it...
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Thomas Cook Airline UK and IAGO, in partnership, are offering an exciting and innovative new opportunity for (f)ATPL holders of all experience and backgrounds to become First Officers for the airline through the Platinum Pilot Scheme. This new scheme removes the 'pay-to-fly' element as there are no requirements to self-sponsor or guarantee any training loans or costs. To the right...
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In the third instalment of our Q&A series, following on from Jack Roberts' story last week, we also caught up with another Air Tanker and Kura Aviation student Johnny Patterson who also has an interesting story about how he made it to the right-seat of an Airbus A330… Hello Johnny, lets start with how you got into flying... I love...
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Share Users of FlightRadar24.com may have noticed today that there was an unusual visitor in UK airspace. Airbus' latest A350, the stretched -1000 version is in Cardiff for a short test flight programme which ends this Thursday. The tracks shown by Flight Radar show the aircraft test flying over Wales, in uncontrolled airspace which is ideal for this type of...
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Share Yesterday (Tuesday 2nd May 2017), L3 Commercial Training Solutions announced that CTC Aviation is set to become L3 Commercial Training Solution Airline Academy or L3 CTS Airline Academy for short. The reshuffle was announced yesterday at the World Aviation Training Conference 2017 by parent company L3 Technologies to provide "an unrivalled portfolio of truly integrated pilot training, resourcing and systems solutions for customers...
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CTC have recently relaunched their popular Generation easyJet Pilot Training Programme with three training routes available and a number of outstanding applicants will also benefit from easyJet underwriting their training loans. The relaunch also once again includes the Amy Johnson initiative. What is the course? easyJet is one of Europe's biggest and most successful airlines and has been a CTC...
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