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Careers at Almat Flying Academy

We’re a small, friendly flying school looking for passionate flight instructors to help train the next generation of pilots. We we’re still happy to receive your CV for future opportunities.

Flight Instructor — Halfpenny Green / Sywell Aerodrome

Full-time, part-time, employed or self-employed.

You’ll join our team delivering high-quality flying instruction towards the PPL and LAPL, alongside licence-holder checkouts, trial flying lessons and theoretical instruction.

Essential criteria

  • UK CAA PPL or CPL
  • Current FI rating, able to teach both LAPL and PPL
  • Current SEP (Land) rating
  • Current medical certificate

Desirable criteria

  • Unrestricted FI rating
  • Night Instructor rating
  • IR(R) Instructor rating
  • Experience instructing towards PPL and LAPL

Why join us

  • Opportunities for further training and development — including our own FI(A) course if you want to progress your instructing qualifications
  • A supportive, professional team, across two airfields in the West Midlands and Northamptonshire
  • An established, well-regarded training environment

You’ll need to be flexible, safety-focused and comfortable in a fast-paced environment, with strong customer service skills.

To apply: email your CV to careers@almat.co.uk ⚠ or keep simon.kalas@almat.co.uk if that’s preferred, with “Flight Instructor” in the subject line, or call 02477 220 399.

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Roles We Also Recruit For

Operations Assistant — Wolverhampton Halfpenny Green

This role suits only highly motivated young persons looking to get into an Aviation career with strong organisational, interpersonal and computer skills. Typically operations assistants are recruited after a period of volunteering for work experience and potential candidates having demonstrated a high level of motivation and understanding of what is required and ability to meet the high standard of work required. Interested in being considered if this role opens up? Send your CV and a cover email to info@almat.co.uk. We don’t expect young persons to have significant experience or skills on their CV. But do not underestimate the importance of how much the quality of your CV and cover letter have on whether you receive any offer.

Work Experience

We don’t offer work experience to anyone under the age of sixteen or for short-term placement. We do look for persons over the age of sixteen willing to volunteer regularly for an extended period (can just be weekends). Subject to performance we are willing to support volunteers with written references to assist with securing employment. In exceptional cases and subject to roles being open, we have in the past employed volunteers or allowed them to go on to working for us on a self-employed basis. We don’t expect young persons to have significant experience or skills on their CV. But do not underestimate the importance of how much the quality of your CV and cover letter have on whether you receive any offer. We do not guarantee to respond to any enquiries relating to work experience as we get a lot of them.

No current vacancy that fits?

We’re always glad to hear from qualified instructors, or anyone interested in future opportunities, even when nothing is advertised above. Send your CV to info@almat.co.uk