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Budgeting Tips for Student Pilots: A Practical Guide to Managing Your Finances
For some student pilots, joining a flying academy will be their first time living away from home, so there’s much to learn and plan for. Most students find it best to work to a budget, you don’t...
How to Become a Pilot: Turn Your Dream Career into Reality
As we embrace the new year, consider transforming your dream of flying into a reality with a career as a commercial pilot. Leading Edge Aviation welcomes everyone, from school and university...
That’s a Wrap 2024! A Look Back at Leading Edge Aviation’s Biggest Successes and Milestones This Year
It’s been a year of breaking boundaries at Leading Edge Aviation. Four new airline partnerships, 200 more students and over £2M invested into top talent as part of our funded fATPL and Flight...
Ground School in Southern Spain: An Interview with Chief Instructor, Gordon King
Considering pilot training in Southern Spain? Here’s all you need to know about Ground School in AlhamaEarlier this year we announced that our new Integrated fATPL course will be launching at our...
Leading Edge Aviation – Year End Summary of Achievements
1. Airline Partnerships and Graduate Employment Success: Graduate Employment: Our graduates have achieved remarkable success, securing positions across a wide range of airlines including British...
The Future of Pilot Training: Embracing Cutting-Edge Technology
Technology is playing an increasingly important role in the aviation industry, and it's no different when it comes to pilot training. With the ever-growing demand for pilots, the industry has had to...
Why dual campus flight conditions help create well rounded & experienced pilots
There are a lot of considerations when finding the flight school that’s right for you, with the location of the flying phase of training often an important factor that we discuss with people making...
The Journey To Achieving a Dual UK CAA & EASA Licence
After the UK left the EU at the end of 2020, the only way to gain access to European job opportunities was to hold a secondary licence – that’s where the fact finding begun. Three of us in LEAP003...
Training the whole pilot
What makes a good pilot? Is it solely someone’s ability to manage an aircraft? It is a common misconception that this is the case! The International Civil Aviation Organisation collated data from...