CTC Aviation and EPST collaborate to create new airline pilot training partnership

SOUTHAMPTON, U.K. - Jan. 28, 2015 - PRLog -- Two of Europe’s leading providers of airline pilot training have formed a new airline pilot training partnership - bringing together the significant capabilities of both organisations to deliver innovative airline pilot training and resourcing solutions to market.

UK-headquartered airline pilot training and resourcing company, CTC Aviation, was selected as ‘partner of choice’ by European Pilot Selection and Training (EPST) of the Netherlands to deliver training and placement services, initially for its popular Europilot programme.  This new and exciting partnership will see CTC Aviation providing professional airline pilot training to ‘frozen’ ATPL standards at Crew Training Centres in both the UK (Southampton and Bournemouth) and Phoenix Goodyear in the USA for up to 50 EPST trainee pilots annually.

EPST Europilot applicants will be required to demonstrate, with EPST in Maarsen, their suitability for airline pilot training and subsequent employment before commencing 6-months of ATPL theory training and examinations with CTC Aviation in Southampton, UK. Trainees will then commence CPL flight training on Garmin 1000 equipped Diamond DA40NG and DA42NG aircraft and simulators at CTC Aviation’s newest training centre in Phoenix Goodyear, Arizona before then returning to the UK to complete Instrument Rating training in Bournemouth, UK.

Multi-pilot Airline Jet Foundation Training Course (AJFC), which includes Multi-Crew Cooperation training (MCC), will be completed at EPST’s training centre in Maarsen in the Netherlands.

As part of this new agreement, EPST will work in partnership with CTC Aviation’s dedicated Airline Resourcing team to facilitate airline placement opportunities for the Europilot graduates.  Aircraft type rating training will be carried out either by EPST, CTC Aviation or an employer airline.

Erik Duijkers, Managing Director for EPST visited CTC Aviation’s Headquarters in the UK on 14 January 2015 for the signing ceremony – “We are delighted to once again be working in partnership with CTC Aviation.  Their team has an innovative and customer-focussed approach to airline pilot training; setting excellent standards at latest generation Crew Training Centres.  We commit to provide our Europilot applicants with the highest standards of training possible; ensuring that they have the very best opportunities to secure employment with an airline.  We are confident that our partnership with CTC Aviation will do just that and we look forward to further developing our relationship over the coming years."

Anthony Petteford, Chief Commercial Officer for CTC Aviation – “Having worked with EPST in the pioneering days of their Europilot programme in the late 1990’s, we are absolutely delighted to once again be working with a partner organisation that shares our core values of quality and innovation in airline pilot training coupled with a genuine commitment to excellence”

CTC Aviation works closely with 14 Partner airlines globally, maintaining an impressive 98% placement record for graduates of both its CTC WINGS Integrated ATPL and MPL airline pilot training programmes.

CTC Aviation was chosen in 2011 by British Airways to manage its Future Pilot Programme, sponsoring successful applicants through training with three nominated training providers (include CTC Aviation) and delivering the Airbus type rating training for all Future Pilot Programme trainee pilots before entering airline employment.

Virgin Atlantic recently selected CTC Aviation as an exclusive training partner for the launch of its Future Flyers airline pilot career programme which attracted a record breaking number of applicants

The company is also the preferred supplier of pilots to easyJet, having worked in partnership with Europe’s leading low fares airline since it first began operations in 1995.

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About CTC Aviation

CTC Aviation is a global pilot training and resourcing company providing innovative solutions in partnership with customers around the world.  Latest-generation Crew Training Centres and resources are located at attractive, well-connected, convenient locations in the UK, NZ and USA

CTC Aviation’s services cover the full spectrum of requirements from ab initio trainee pilot selection, training and airline placement to the more advanced aircrew selection, training and provisioning requirements for experienced pilots, instructors and examiners.

As an Internationally Approved Training Organisation (for ab initio and type rating training), the company trains and recruits approximately 3,000 aircrew for more than 50 global airlines each year.

Airline clients include British Airways, Dragonair, easyJet, easyJet Switzerland, fastjet, Flybe, flydubai, IndiGo, Jet2.com, Jet Airways, the Jetstar Group, Monarch Airlines, Oman Air, Qatar Airways, Royal Brunei Airlines, Thomas Cook Airlines, Thomson Airways and Virgin Atlantic Airways.

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