17 March 2007
The March 2007 FLYER Professional Flight Training Show took place on Saturday 17 March at the Renaissance London Heathrow Hotel. The lively and energetic atmosphere was due, in part at least, to the fact that this was one of the best attended Professional Flight Training Shows, ever, with over 500 people coming through the door to speak to the exhibitors, listen to the seminars and take part in the special feature areas.
Flight training organisations from around the world – including the UK, Europe, America, South Africa and Australia – were exhibiting, allowing potential students to talk to the people who might train them. There were also representatives of organisations such as BALPA (the British Airline Pilots Association), GAPAN (the Guild of Airline Pilots and Navigators) and the CAA.
The seminars, now well established as barometers of the industry as it is and as it will develop, were very well attended. Topics included the ‘IR Flight Test Explained’ by David Riley of the CAA, ‘Selection Processes – how to make the cut with the airlines’ by Captain Ian Cheese from FlyBe and ‘the MPL Explained’ by industry expert Peter Moxham.
Among the Feature Areas were the Horizon Simulations flight simulator, Cabair’s pilot aptitude testing area and the Sennheiser/AFE Listening Post. The Mechtronix sponsored VIP Exhibitors Lounge also proved very popular among the exhibitors as a place to relax and talk to colleagues.
If you’re thinking about learning to fly for a career – whether in general aviation, the military or with the airlines – make a date in your diary for the next FLYER Professional Flight Training Show on Saturday 3 November 2007, again at the Renaissance London Heathrow Hotel.
Details will be posted on the Exhibitions website at <a href=”http://www.flyer.co.uk/exhibitions”>www.flyer.co.uk/exhibitions</a> soon.
