Pilot – June 2018

pilotweb.aero | Pilot June 2018 | 17

Colour only

for the CAA

Pauline Vahey becomes first

Goodwood Aero Club ambassador

For ‘security and fraud
prevention reasons’, the
CAA is no longer able to
accept black and white
copies of ID documents.
Any applications submitted
on or after 14 May 2018 will
be rejected if the required
ID documents are not in
colour, leading to a delay
in the application. The
ID document must also
be certified. Please refer
to the CAA website for
information on who can
certify documents: caa.
co.uk/General-aviation/
Pilot-licences/Applications/
Documentation/How-
to-get-copies-of-your-
documents-certified/

Pauline Vahey has been appointed as
ambassador of the Goodwood Aero
Club (GAC). A director of Aviatrice
Ltd, Board Director of AOPA,
former Chairman of the British
Women Pilots’ Association, and
Chairman of the General Aviation
Infrastructure Network (GAIN),
Pauline has a passion for aviation
and a desire to encourage more
people – particularly women and
young people – into the industry.
Her love of flying was born out of
admiration for her late Father, who
flew Wellington bombers during
WWII. After many years flying
gliders she gained a PPL, and used
skills gained in the software industry
and sales consultancy to help clients
in general aviation.
As a former Chairman of the
BWPA her objective was – and
remains – to encourage women into
aviation, either as a career or for
recreation. “Women have broken
into all sorts of professions,” she
says, “but aviation still seems to
be a bastion of male dominance.
I often go into schools and other
places where there are young
women and speak to them about the
opportunities that are out there to
become pilots.”

Of her appointment as

Goodwood’s ambassador she says:

“I used to be a GAC member and

what I like most about Goodwood

is the people, they really do want to

help, they’re not just trained to do

so. I am greatly looking forward to

helping Goodwood with its vision of

nurturing a vibrant and enthusiastic

Club, where new and existing

aviators are actively welcomed and

encouraged.”

Her role will include being a

judge at the Freddie March Spirit of

Aviation exhibition at the Goodwood

Revival Meeting in September, being

a guest speaker at club events and

social occasions and helping to guide

and improve it for members.

Notes

SkyDemon's awards were announced during AERO Friedrichshafen

New GAC ambassador Pauline Vahey

SkyDemon was among only

eight UK companies to win

not one but two Queen’s

Awards for Enterprise − in the

Innovation and International

Trade categories. Founder

and Managing Director Tim

Dawson said: “Using my

software skills to make

flying easier and safer was a

challenge I set myself when

I earned my pilot’s licence

twelve years ago. We are

now the market leaders

in this industry in Europe.

Our double Queen’s Award

is a huge boost for us as a

company and goes to show

that even the smallest

businesses can have the

biggest impact.”

SkyDemon offers a

30-day trial subscription

at: skydemon.aero/start.

A full personal SkyDemon

subscription, which delivers

flight planning and navigation

features, costs £139 in the

first year and can be renewed

at £89 per year thereafter.

Other subscription types are

also available: skydemon.aero/

SkyDemon’s double award success

Kinross High School

Build-A-Plane will

fly soon

The young Build-A-Plane team at Kinross

High School is getting closer to takeoff this

summer as they work on the final stages

of their Eurofox that was bought by the

Aero Space Scientific Educational Trust

(ASSET). As reported in February’s Pilot

Notes, the kit was delivered to the school

last November to give pupils an after-

school opportunity to help assemble a real

aeroplane and encourage their interest in

pursuing STEM subjects. “It forms a first and

significant element of our overall strategy to

create the Aero Space Kinross science and

space centre in the area,” explains Alisdair

Stewart, Chairman of ASSET. “We see the

educational link as a vitally important one

and encourage young people in the area to

study with a STEM career in mind. And our

ambition is for further Scottish schools to

benefit from a similar Build-A-Plane project,

in due course.

“To date, the pupils have been given

dedicated time in learning the intricacies

of aviation engineering and applying this to

their own aeroplane housed at Kinross High

School, giving up their personal time after

school to allow this exciting project to take

place. They have now completed 90% of the

build, and are at the stage of intense finesse

work, as they plan for the exciting takeoff

this summer.” The Kitfox will make its public

debut at the East Fortune Air Show on 28

July. aerospacekinross.com