30 APRIL 2012

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Article from BTNews 30 APRIL 2012

BA sponsors pilot training

For the first time for more than a decade British Airways' is to sponsor cadet pilot training.  The announcement has met with the expected unprecedented response, just 90 places available for the 18 months’ course.  Those winning a placement will be of university graduate standard and will undertake basic training with flying academies at Oxford, Southampton and Jerez in Spain.  The final piece of the pilot licence jigsaw is undertaken at the airline’s Cranebank training establishment near Heathrow. 

Whilst they will have flown initially single piston-engined aircraft, and later twin-engined machines during the course, the young pilots will join the airline’s flight deck team without having actually flown a commercial jet.  All the final training is done on a full motion simulator.  BA presently employs about 3,500 pilots, of which 5% are women.  In order to privately qualify as a professional pilot it could easily cost £100,000. www.ba.com

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