FLY THE CIRRUS SR2O AT ELSTREE AERODROME

Cabair can now offer you the fabulous Cirrus SR20 to hire and fly from Elstree at the London School of Flying. It is available for solo or dual hire at an hourly rate. There is also a 5 hour Familiarisation package which includes 10 hours ground school.

This amazing aircraft has state of the art avionics and is the choice of many celebrities around the world. It is also the aircraft which has its own parachute!

For more details, download the Data Sheet here and visit the London School of Flying web site here.

To buy a half hour flight on the Cirrus SR20 as a Gift Voucher, visit our dedicated Flying Voucher web site here.

CABAIR FLYING SCHOOLS WEB SITES

All our flying schools now have their own web sites. Although most of the Cabair products and courses are the same, there are often local differences due to variables such as landing fees etc.

The schools web addresses can be found on the CFS main web site here.

If you are local to one of our schools and have any interesting stories, anecdotes of perhaps some history, we shall be glad to hear from you and hoefully post it on the web site. Please email the school direct: email adresses are listed on the same page.

CCAT LAP OF SILVERSTONE

On 3rd June, Silverstone Race Track saw a new team on the grid – and it wasn’t Brawn GP! The Sales and Marketing team from Cabair College of Air Training (CCAT) are normally signing up budding airline pilots for their First Officer Direct Integrated ATPL course at Cranfield.

However, on this sunny June evening they were treading the tarmac usually reserved for the likes of Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton as they did a sponsored run around the circuit in the ‘Race for Life’.

Keren Caird, Calise Mole and Morgan Perry have now raised £500 for Cancer research and were just three of thousands of women, all wearing pink, who walked, ran or used wheelchairs to conquer the famous British circuit.

For further information about this worthy cause visit the official website by clicking the logo below.

FUNDING FOR COMMERCIAL PILOT TRAINING

Funding options are available for Cabair students undergoing aeroplane and helicopter commercial pilot training. Contact Cabair College of Air Training (CCAT) today for further information:

Tel: 01234 436 060 Email here.

THE AIR LEAGUE CELEBRATES ITS CENTENARY

The Air League was founded in 1909 to promote interest and opportunities in aviation. For 100 years it has been liaising with the Government, Parliament, the Armed services, local authorities and the press to offer flying scholarships and bursaries. It has been responsible for creating many successful aviation careers and has contributed to the growth and development of aviation both civil and military.

His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh, Patron of The Air League, held a reception at Buckingham Palace on Thursday 4th June 2009 to thank supporters of The League and celebrate the Centenary.

Shari Peyami, Managing Director of Wycombe Air Centre, represented The Cabair group at the reception and is shown above, talking with HRH Prince Philip.

The Duke expressed his appreciation of the support both The Cabair Group and Wycombe Air Centre have given in promoting Air League worthy causes.

For more photographs of the reception, see the official Air league web site here.

SIGN A DOWNING STREET PETITION NOW : NO VAT ON TRAINING.

The government provides loans, grants and incentives to encourage university students to attain qualifications which often have little employment value and backs apprentice schemes for the majority of skilled professions yet it is ignorant to aspiring pilots.  Many countries such as France, Sweden and America provide low interest, unsecured course fee loans to their national student pilots and some even provide government finance.

Your chance to make a difference: More...

Cabair Flying Schools are excited to announce their new range of FLYING GIFT VOUCHERS which can be purchased in varying denominations of £25, £50, £75, £100 and £1,000. These Flying Gift Vouchers can be redeemed at any Cabair Flying School or affiliate and can cover the cost of, or go toward the cost of, any Cabair flight, course, package or trip.

They are the ideal gift for aviators of all experience – and particularly useful if you are a little unsure which course or flight to buy for your friend or relation. Maybe you have a relation who wants to train to be a commercial pilot? What better way to contribute to his or her future than give a Gift Voucher which can be redeemed against training?

Flying Gift Vouchers can be purchased from any Cabair Flying School or online at the dedicated flying voucher web site here.

BIGGIN HILL AIRSHOW 2009 OFFER: BIGIN HIL AIRPORT JUNE 27 - 28

If anyone purchases our flagship top-of-the-range £1,000 Gift Voucher during the show, we will give them a £100 Gift Voucher FREE! That's 10% EXTRA FREE!!

The Vouchers can be used towards any Cabair flight, trip or course at any of our schools of affiliates.

Visit us at our Exhibition Unit at the show for more details!

FLIGHT & SIMULATOR EXPERIENCE DAY at CRANFIELD

Surely this must be the ultimate day that anyone interested in flying could ever spend: You will fly FOUR different simulators and ONE real aircraft and ONE real helicopter: ALL IN ONE DAY!!

Plus, they are not just ordinary aircraft and simulators: these are the very machines on which we train future airline First Officers!

• Fly the DIAMOND TWIN START DA42 FNPT11 simulator
• Fly the Multi crew BEECH 200 turb-prop simulator
• Fly the Multi Crew CESSNA CITATION JET simulator
• Fly the BELL JET RANGER helicopter simulator

PLUS

• Half an hour flight in the real thing -    DIAMOND STAR DA40 aeroplane
• Half an hour flight in the real thing -    R22 ROBINSON helicopter

All the above will include pre and post flight briefings and a certificate to log your 1 hour of real flying. Refreshments will be provided.

Find out what it's like to train as a professional pilot for only £299 inc VAT!!

For full details and to buy online visit our Flying Vouchers web site here.

NEW OFF PEAK PACKAGES

Time to beat the recession and make the most of flying during the week with Cabair Flying Schools' OFF PEAK PACKAGES.

By avoiding weekends and public holidays, you can take advantage of lower prices and more cost effective flying.

We have three packages for you:

OFF PEAK PPL PACKAGE: A complete 45 hour PPL: From £6,495

OFF PEAK PPL COMPLETER: A 30 hour package designed to finish off that PPL you started: From £4,550

OFF PEAK HOUR BUILDER: Aimed at those training for a commercial licence, fly 30 hours in busy UK airspace: From £2,995

For more information and to download a data sheet go to the CFS website here. Or call 0845 094 6060 for one-to-one advice now!

CCAT CAREER SEMINARS AT AEROEXPO 2009

Cabair College of Air Training - the home of Cabair Integrated ATPL Programmes and Commercial Helicopter Pilot Training is holding a Career Seminar at Aeroexpo 2009 at Wycombe Air Park on both Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th June.

The seminars are part of the official seminar programme and are open to anyone interested in training as a commercial airline or helicopter pilot. The subject is: 'Live the Dream – How to train for your commercial pilots licence' and the speaker is Keren Caird - the Marketing Manager at CCAT.

The seminars take place at 1530 on Saturday and 1000 on Sunday.

For the full seminar programme visit the official website here.

PPL SEMINARS AT AEROEXPO 2009

Cabair’s Pilot Advice Centre held very successful Seminars at Aeroexpo 2008 for those who are interested in learning to fly. These are being held again on Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th June at Wycombe Air Centre at Aeroexpo 2009.

They consist of a short presentation about the courses on offer, the various locations at which you can train, plus details of how to fund your training. You then look over some aeroplanes and helicopters which you might one day be flying! Refreshments are provided.

The seminars are free and places may be limited. Places are booked on line and will be booked on a first-come-first-served basis.

Find out more here.

BBVA AGREES TO FUND CABAIR STUDENTS

We are all well aware that funding your training is the fundamental hurdle to tackle when planning your airline career. Cabair College of Air Training are delighted to announce that they have secured access to funding for the First Officer Direct Integrated course from BBVA.

BBVA is a global group that offers individual and corporate customers the most complete range of financial and non-financial products and services. It enjoys a solid leadership position in the Spanish market, where it first began its activities over 150 years ago.

For further info see here.

INTEREST FREE LOAN from Cabair Integrated

Cabair Integrated at Cabair College of Air Training is offering an interest free loan for parts of the Integrated ATPL course starting on May 1st 2009.

It offers a loan to cover both the ATPL Theoretical Knowledge part of the Integrated course, and for the Multi-Crew and Jet Orientation Training at the end of the course.

For full details see here.

NEW PRIVATE PILOT COURSES

Cabair Flying Schools continue to expand their unique range of courses for the aspiring private pilot. Latest additions are a Zero to Solo course aimed at the complete beginner who wishes to learn to fly to the point where he or she can go solo, plus a Co-Pilot course based on the AOPA Safety Pilot course to encourage regular passengers to take a more responsible roll when they go flying with their friend or partner.

Manager of Cabair's The Pilot's Advice Centre based at Elstree Aerodrome, Andrew Spender, is hoping these new products will compliment the existing PPL BUilder and Zero Five Zero courses which have proved very popular with customers over the last year or so.

RYANAIR ENCOUNTER

A real treat was in store for a couple of Cabair Modular students at The European Pilot Training Academy in Bournemouth. It's not often, nowadays, that one gets to see a new 737-800 up this close, unless you are actually travelling with the pioneering low cost airline. With such a strong need for security this day and age, we are very grateful to Ryanair for allowing a couple of our budding airline pilots to cross the tarmac in their twin-engine Beech Duchess and park alongside what we expect is an aircraft type which they will one day fly professionally.

The Cabair students were Johanne Assayag, who is currently completing his Instrument Rating and Nadine Naidoo who is a Cabair Intern and currently completing her ATPL groundschool before starting her CPL.

The lucky students met two crews - one during the day and the other during the evening. The top photo right shows them posing with the daytime crew next to the Duchess and the 737.

As a special treat, the crew they met in the evening allowed them onto the flight deck of the six-month old aircraft to see the aircraft's glass cockpit avionics.

Johanne says that he and Nadine were thrilled to see the 737 up this close:

"The crew had completed their 4 sectors for the day and had just returned from Spain. The Captain, Sean, was very nice to us and is clearly enjoying his life as a Ryanair Captain at the age of 31 - flying some 900 hours a year."

For more information about training with Cabair Modular contact them here:
+44 (0) 1202 58 11 22 Fax +44 (0) 1202 581122 Email modular@cabair.com www.cabair.com/modular

For more information about Ryanair Flights visit their website at www.ryanair.com

RED ARROW VISITS BIGGIN:

We are used to seeing them in splendid formation, but even on their own they are just as exciting. A Red Arrow BAE SYSTEMS Hawk T Mk 1 piloted by Flight Lieutenant Mike Ling flew into Biggin Hill Airport from RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire and parked outside Biggin Hill School of Flying. It was a gesture to celebrate the opening of the new access road which serves the brand new premises where the School now resides.

Present at the road naming ceremony was the current Mayor of Bromley Denise Reddin, the Airport Chairman Andrew Walters, the Airport Director Peter Lonigan and the gentleman who has the honour of having the road named after him, Jock Maitland.

Mr Maitland was the very first to set up a flying school at Biggin, and now his contribution will be remembered forever. The road is called: Maitland View.

For further information about Biggin Hill Airport visit the official website here.

For further information about learning to fly at Biggin Hill School of Flying, contact them here:

Biggin Hill School Of Flying
Biggin Hill Airport, Biggin Hill, Kent TN16 3BN
Tel : +44 (0)1959 573583
Email bigginhill@cabair.com www.cabairflyingschools.com

Cabair Integrated at Cabair College of Air Training has published its new Integrated course prices, together with details of a brand new course. Cabair Integrated now offer two First Officer Direct Options:

FOD Europe or FOD USA

Orlando Flight Training based a Kissimmee Airport, in partnership with Cabair, is a highly successful training school.  With recent approval from the UK Civil Aviation Authority, it is now available to the First Officer Direct Students.   A large part of the single engine syllabus will be completed at this location, making the most of the long sunny days and clear skies.

Apart from offering an exciting new location at which to train, the new course also gives students the option of paying for their training in dollars.

To find out more about the First Officer Direct options, why not attend a free seminar at Cranfield? Dates of Seminars are 7th March, 4th April, 6th June, 1st August, 3rd October and 5th December 2009. Places on the seminars can be booked online here.

For more information about the courses, and to download brochures and price lists, visit the website here.

GAPAN SCHOLARSHIPS 2009

NEW PREMISES FOR BIGGIN HILL SCHOOL OF FLYING

After more than thirty years of providing pilot training at Biggin Hill Airport, Biggin Hill School of Flying have moved into new premises. A grand open day was held with Master of the Guild of Air Pilots and Navigators Air Commodore Rick Peacock-Edwards in attendance to conduct the official opening of the new building.

Biggin Hill School of Flying is one of Cabair’s oldest established schools and one of eight located around the London Orbital and home counties.  The brand new premises are certainly a breath of fresh air in the current economic climate, as Air Commodore Rick Peacock-Edwards acknowledged:

"This new facility shows foresight and will, I predict, play an invaluable part in looking after the overall interest of UK aviation into the foreseeable future. This new flight training facility will enable the airfield to play an equally important role in the field of aviation in the modern world, and to contribute to the economic interests of the local community, London and the nation."

Biggin Hill School of Flying offers flight training in aeroplanes and helicopters, private pilot licence and instructor courses. For details visit www.cabairflyingschools.com.

FREE OPEN DAY FOR THE KINGSTON FOUNDATION DEGREE COURSE WITH COMMERCIAL PILOT TRAINING

This unique course designed in partnership with Kingston University Faculty of Engineering is proving a very popular choice with aspiring pilots and those who wish to attain a degree. Often it is usually a choice of one or the other!

The seminar is held at Bournemouth and presented by staff from Kingston University and Cabair Modular.

For more information about the course see here.