Pilot – June 2018

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Lufthansa Aviation Training replaces Seminoles with Diamond DA42-VIs

„ Naval cadets graduate
The newly named Cadet Naval
Aviation Course got underway
over the Easter holidays with
nineteen cadets attending. It was
the first time that the course
had been open to students from
both the Combined Cadet Force
(CCF) and Volunteer Cadet
Corps (VCC). Former Royal Navy
Sea King Observer Lt Cdr (CCF)
Trevor Buckley, RNR joined the
team as the navigation instructor
for the course.
Cadets spent three days
in ground school at SCTC
Weymouth and covered
a variety of subjects that
included principles of flight,
human factors, air law and
meteorology before moving on
to the second phase with 727
Squadron at RNAS Yeovilton for
air experience flights in its Grob

115. Unfortunately the first day
     had to be cancelled due to heavy
     rain so they visited the Fleet
     Air Arm Museum at the base.
     The following days saw perfect
     weather, although time ran out
     and a few students were unable
     to fly, but have been invited back
     to complete their courses later in
     the year.
     After sitting a final ground
     school examination the students
     were pleased to learn that they
     had all passed the basic course
     and were presented with their
     Bronze Wings by Cadet Naval
     Aviation Course Commanding
     Officer Lt (SCC) Marc Pether,
     RNR. Top student was Cadet Ben
     Jordan, who was awarded the
     Daedalus Trophy and a Pooley’s
     flight bag, training manuals, a
     Sekonda pilots’ watch donated by
     Time Products UK, and a limited
     edition Breitling cap.

„ Diamond DA42s for

Lufthansa training

Lufthansa Aviation Training

(LAT) has ordered five Diamond

DA42-VIs that will be based at

Rostock-Laage, replacing ten-

year-old Piper Seminoles. Under

the brand name European Flight

Academy the airline is pooling

all Lufthansa Group flight

schools in Germany, Switzerland

and the US. It plans to recruit

500 new student pilots this year.

Ground training is conducted

in Bremen, the first practical

part in the US, and subsequent

instrument training in Rostock-

Laage and Bremen.

2018 CNAC Course Yeovilton

Top student Cadet Ben Jordan 727 NAS Grob 115 at Yeovilton