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AIRLINE PILOTS WITH OUR AIRLINE PARTNERS IN 25 YEARS
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AIRLINE PILOTS IN THE LAST 3 YEARS
where you’ve met our team, trainees and graduates and heard from no fewer than 12 Airline Speakers
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NEW AIRCRAFT DELIVERED TO OUR CREW TRAINING CENTRES IN BOURNEMOUTH, UK, PHOENIX, USA AND HAMILTON, NZ
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THIS YEAR WE’VE BEEN ON THE ROAD TAKING CTC AVIATION TO ASPIRING PILOTS – FROM AUCKLAND TO EDINBURGH.
UK LONDON, MANCHESTER, EXETER, BIRMINGHAM, EDINBURGH, LOUGHBOROUGH, LEEDS, BATH, SURREY, BOURNEMOUTH, SOUTHAMPTON, PORTSMOUTH EUROPE PARIS,
DUBLIN, FRANKFURT, BUCHAREST, BUDAPEST, WARSAW, LISBON, BERLIN, MILAN AND ROME NZ CHRISTCHURCH, AUCKLAND, HAMILTON, WELLINGTON, HAWKES BAY
...INCREASE PLACEMENT ...LAUNCH EXCITING NEW AIRLINE PILOT OPPORTUNITES FOR CAREER PROGRAMMES OUR GRADUATES
We hope you will agree with us that now is an incredibly exciting time to pursue an airline pilot career with CTC Aviation – apply for our CTC WINGS ‘whitetail’ Integrated ATPL airline pilot career programme any day of the year (even December 25 if you are so inclined!)
...STRENGTHEN RELATIONSHIPS WITH EXISTING AND NEW AIRLINE PARTNERS
We hope to see you in training with us in 2016 SEASON’S GREETINGS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR!
HELLO FROM HAMILTON! I’m just at the halfway point of my flight training phase of the CTC WINGS Integrated ATPL airline pilot career programme, based at CTC Aviation’s Crew Training Centre – Hamilton, New Zealand.
This month, our postcard home is from CTC WINGS trainee airline pilot Connor McNally. Connor is currently in the flight training phase of his airline pilot career programme at our Crew Training Centre – Hamilton in New Zealand.
POSTCARD HOME
Training with CTC Aviation means being exposed to an airline-like environment from day one. Our instructors instil a high standard of professionalism in us throughout; preparing us for the airlines from the very first flight.
We’ve also been to Cathedral Cove, a must if you’re ever in New Zealand. Its white beaches and crystal clear water make an incredible setting. The water was pretty cold but we braved it anyway, how could we not!?
I recently had the most memorable night flight. We flew for an hour and a half, reaching just south of Auckland which provided some amazing views of the night skyline. It was like being in a completely different world - and an experience I won’t forget.
So – flight training in New Zealand is amazing. I honestly couldn’t think of a better place to spend 8 months. There’s still so much more for us to see and different, exciting aircraft for us to fly. I can’t wait to see what is to come…
Outside of training, we have lots of opportunity to explore this amazing Island. We’ve been skiing on Mt. Ruapehu - one of the world’s most active volcanoes and the highest point on New Zealand’s North Island. It was an incredible experience that I shared with my course mates, we couldn’t have asked for better conditions!
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CTC WINGS FULLY SPONSORED
ADVANCED FLIGHT INSTRUCTOR PROGRAMME - YET ANOTHER ROUTE TO THE FLIGHT DECK
Our CTC WINGS Fully-Sponsored Flight Instructor Programme is a focused aviation career development programme; designed specifically to deliver the same exacting training standards that our Airline Partners adopt within their own operation.
Those with the motivation to teach and inspire and who are committed to excellence, will be rewarded with the very best of career opportunities which aims to lead you from professional instruction through to the right hand seat of an airliner… Following a training programme to become a multi-engine Instrument Rating and Class Rating Instructor, receiving a salary from day one, Daniel Norman, Sam Carbery and Trevor Lawrence joined CTC Aviation’s team of highly qualified instructors, responsible for delivering flight training for the company’s world renowned CTC WINGS and CTC TAKEOFF airline pilot training programmes at CTC Aviation’s Crew Training Centre - Bournemouth, UK. “To have the opportunity to have my instructor qualifications upgraded to teach multi-engine, MPL & UPART courses on first-rate training aircraft, in addition to having the option of going for airline selection was simply a no brainer. I now find myself sitting in the right-hand seat of a big jet at easyJet! I hope to remain involved with CTC Aviation for years to come.” Dan Norman
Today – through the placement opportunities available through CTC Aviation – they are flying as co-pilots for easyJet.
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WHERE ARE THEY NOW? Emma Henderson
Senior First Officer – easyJet CTC FLEXICREW ATP Programme Graduate
2008
my journey through the skies… Growing up I didn’t really know what I wanted to become, but I do remember being fascinated by the idea of flying - birds, kites, planes, hot air balloons, the space shuttle! I suppose at some point, I must have thought it would be quite nice to do that one day. The first thing I remember about flying was the Space Shuttle - I begged my parents to take me to Stansted to see it come in on the back of a 747! The halcyon days of the 1980s! My real introduction to flying though came on my 18th birthday, when I was presented with a one hour lesson at Earls Colne. I loved it… Three years later, in my second year of a history degree at Leeds (I was going to be a hotshot lawyer by this time you see…) I discovered the University Air Squadron and spent the next two years happily flying around the skies of South Yorkshire. I applied to join the RAF and my fate was cast - or so I thought… In the meantime, I had met and become engaged to a dashing RAF Navigator (now my husband of 20 years) and he was posted to the north of Scotland…. So I withdrew my application to the RAF, moved 600 miles away from London and spent the rest of my 20s having babies; three of them. It never really occurred to me that I might fly again, and certainly not for a living.
I decided to carry on with my licences and went on to hour build - burning holes in the sky around the rest of the north island just because I could! In 2004 I gained my CPL, enrolled on a Ground School distance learning package and left New Zealand in 2006 with a CPL MEIR and ready for my first round of ATPL exams. I didn’t really know what to do next, so I wrote to all the airlines asking for a job, and got one reply saying thank you very much for my application, but they didn’t have any vacancies. I learned of an instructor scholarship from The Honourable Company of Air Pilots, formerly the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators (GAPAN). I applied and was awarded the Diamond Jubilee scholarship - only ever been awarded once! I stayed on as an instructor after the course, and then typically the RAF moved us again, back to Scotland…
Another twist of fate soon changed all of that - we suddenly found ourselves posted to New Zealand for a three and a half year tour. It was going to be awful - I just knew it.
Finally I needed a MCC certificate (and a job). I had applied to CTC Aviation for the ATP Programme as it also offered that ultimate goal: placement as a co-pilot with an airline. I passed selection and was offered a place on the course. I finished it to the required standard required for airline placement and was placed by CTC Aviation as a First Officer with easyJet in February 2010.
How wrong I was! They were the best years of my life in so many ways. We arrived in February 2003, and my husband had persuaded me to stop smoking my beloved 20 fags a day and use the money instead to pay to finish my PPL, which I did at the flying club on the RNZAF Base in Auckland - which many CTC Aviation trainees will be familiar with.
I was 30 when I started flying the second time around, 37 when I joined easyJet and at 42, command is just around the corner… I enjoy the job as much now as I did when I joined - and actually, I have no intention of going anywhere else. It has taken a lot of hard work and a lot of determination, (a little bit of luck thrown in here and there) but I wouldn’t change a thing. Discover more and apply today ctcaviation.com/ctcflexicrew
DAT ES FOR T H E D IA RY CTC Aviation Airline Pilot Careers Event, Crew Training Centre – Southampton, 30 January 2016. Airline guest speaker TBC
Kick start your airline pilot career! This event is an opportunity for aspiring pilots to visit our training facilities, meet some of the team and fully research the options available in the industry today. Discover more and register today ctcaviation.com
Salon des Formations et Métiers Aéronautiques, au Musee de l’Air et de l’Espace de l’Aeroport de Paris – Le Bourget, 29-31 January