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FTA advancing UK pilot training

FTA Global (FTA) is preparing for both making and attracting significant capital investment in the development of UK pilot training.

Above: (left to right) FTA Global's Anthony Petteford and Sean Jacob.
Courtesy FTA

The first key step in the company’s plan – which is based at Brighton City Airport (also commonly known as Shoreham Airport) – is today's announcement that respected aviation industry veteran Anthony Petteford has been appointed as its Strategic Adviser.

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Petteford, who has previously both led and invested in prestigious ab initio pilot training industry brands, including Oxford Aviation Academy (now CAE) and CTC Aviation (now L3Harris) – will support the FTA team with their strategic growth ambitions in the UK CAA, EASA and Global pilot training markets. His 26-year CV has seen him oversee the training of over 10,000 cadets, develop award-winning ATPL multimedia, launch the inaugural MPL to the UK with Flybe and easyJet and gain global ATO approvals with international regulators, including those in the USA, MENA, Asia, Australia and New Zealand.
 
FTA’s Managing Director, Sean Jacob said: “Anthony and I have known each other for some time and it is with enormous pleasure that I now welcome him to the FTA team. We share a mutual ambition to deliver positive change into the world of commercial pilot training. Our goal is to ensure that, by differentiating our approach, the biggest beneficiaries are the students and the airlines that they go on to fly with.”
 
Anthony Petteford added: “Since my early industry days in the 1990s with the then UK Oxford Air Training School – when airlines sponsored and funded cadet programmes – our approach to airline pilot training has evolved materially. I’ve witnessed significant periods of exciting change, growth and – of course – cyclical challenges for our industry and have been proud to help create and launch initiatives that support and benefit both pilots and airlines.  

“I am delighted to join Sean and his team at FTA to share my varied experience and help them achieve their investment and growth ambitions. I see huge value in the UK modular training environment and look forward to helping to build upon FTA’s strategic emphasis on the qualities of being ‘Trained in Britain’.”
 

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