Aviation training companies launch joint venture ground school

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Fast-growing commercial aviation training companies, Gloucesterbased Cat3C and Coventry-based Aeros Group, have established a joint venture to provide specialist ATPL theory (“ground school”) training.

Cat3C was founded by Tony Pike and former British Airways Captain Bill Chivers. The company has recently appointed Executive Director Nigel Orme to lead the expansion. Cat3C will continue to be based at Gloucester.

The Aeros Group has provided the airline industry with pilots for more than 30 years and has academies in Coventry, Gloucester, Cardiff, Nottingham and Doncaster. Aeros has a training alliance with Tayside Aviation, based in Dundee and Fife.

Nigel Orme said: “Cat3C’s joint venture with Aeros Group represents a significant partnership in providing industry-leading pilot training.”

Tony Pike, founder of Cat3C added: “Along with Bill Chivers, myself and the rest of our professional instructor team I am very pleased to join Aeros Group in our continued elevation of theoretical training to lead the high standards required of our future airline pilots.”