Almat News

We’re an A.T.O. now – Instructor Courses launched After a lot of hard work, especially by our Head of Training Steve, we are now a CAA Approved Training Organisation (ATO). This is a major milestone for us. To date, all of the flight training for PPL / LAPL has been conducted under our Declared Training…

PPL / LAPL Fast Track “Lite” Now available We are pleased to announce the launch of a new fast track scheme – “Fast Track Lite”. Are you are interested in taking the fast track to a pilots licence, but can’t make the commitment of our standard fast track (minimum 4 hours of flight a week)?…

We have opened up a new location at Sywell Aerodrome in Northamptonshire. Providing PPL & LAPL flight instruction including trial lessons, grass strip training and additional ratings as well as experience flights. Office hours are Wednesday to Sunday 08:30 to 17:00. To start with we are operating Cessna 150 G-BSZV and Cessna 172R G-BXSD. Flight…

IR(R) Courses Now Available Congratulations to Tom Berkely, who has passed his instructor rating for teaching Instrument Rating (Restricted). This has been added to our additional ratings page here. Ground School 2022 Course Dates Announced We have posted dates for in-house ground school training. Furthermore there is a DISCOUNT AVAILABLE using code GRS20 on the…

Steve Becomes An Examiner Congratulations to our head of training Steve Mason who recently qualified as an examiner for PPL (A) and LAPL (A). This means we now have our own full time in-house examiner. Congratulations also go out to Tom Berkeley, one of our full time instructors. He recently upgraded his restricted Instructor Rating…

Happy New Year Just wanted to take the time to thank all of our members, students and staff for their support through 2020. I can’t tell you how much we appreciate it. As you know we are currently in a tier 4 lockdown, meaning flight training and aircraft hire cannot commence until the restrictions are…

The Civil Aviation Authority pilot theory exams are changing to a new electronic system. If you are looking to get your theory exams done, now is a good time. If you take them prior to the new system, you will save yourself at least £90 in exam fees, more so if you fail exams. Here…

Here at Almat Flying Academy we are very lucky to have a home which often hosts a variety of interesting and historical aircraft. One such aircraft was Douglas C-47 “That’s all brother” which is the aircraft that led the main airborne invasion over Normandy 75 years ago. This aircraft has been in the UK for…