Private Pilot Licence Scholarships
The Benevolent Fund PPL Scholarship 2010 – John Randall
John is a 26 year old Jazz musician and accomplished sailor who recently cycled solo across Europe. About to start an apprenticeship with Airbus at Bristol, and with an eye to achieving an ATPL by any available means, John is an outstanding winner of the year’s Benevolent Fund PPL scholarship and has embarked on training at Tiger Airways at Gloucester.
The Sir Sefton Branker Scholarship 2010 – Amy Cosgrove
Amy is the youngest winner of one of this year’s scholarships and at 17 has quite a few hours of flying behind her, financed by cleaning the more salubrious areas of Middlesbrough Football Club – she must really love flying! A straight A A-level student studying Maths, Physics and German; Amy is very determined to become an Airline pilot in the future. She is training with St George Flight Training on Teeside.
The Cadogan Scholarship 2010 – Matt Stubbs
Matt tried not to sleep through his interview in June as he had been Viva’d the same day and we are pleased to say he had just been awarded a First at University College London in Clinical Sciences with Aerospace Physiology. He is training for his PPL at Firecrest Aviation at Elstree and is making exceedingly rapid progress.
The Jack Smith Memorial Scholarship 2010 – Aaron Collaco
We are absolutely sure Jack would have truly approved of Aaron as the winner of his scholarship. At 21, Aaron is just one year away from completing an MEng (predicted a first) in Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College. To achieve some flying hours, he set up a company washing aircraft at Blackbushe, where he is now flying with Blackbushe Aviation. The end goal? To be a commercial pilot.
The Grand Master’s Scholarship 2010 – Benjamin Pilgrim
Benjamin, at 19, is this year’s “try, try again” candidate. Having been interviewed in 2008, he came back for more in 2009 (not shortlisted) and achieved success this time round. He has recently completed the first year at Liverpool University on an Aerospace Engineering Master’s degree. He made full use of his time in the ATC clocking up both gliding and powered flying hours, along with gaining his Duke of Edinburgh Gold award. Benjamin is spending his summer with Ravenair at Liverpool.