CTC Aviation and EPST to create new airline pilot training partnership
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.
Above: CTC Aviation instructor and trainee.
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.
Above: CTC Aviation Group Administration Centre and Crew Training Centre, Southampton.
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.”