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UK Flight School Chairman awarded a MBE for services to Aviation

UK Flight Training Group Aeros Global is pleased to formally announce the honour of MBE being awarded to Chairman Tom Dunn.

Tom, an avid pilot himself has spent the last 15 years building Aeros into the UK’s leading modular flight school consisting of five air bases at Coventry, Gloucester, Cardiff, Doncaster and Wellesbourne with a fleet of over 40 aircraft.

He is known for his past in building Nationwide (what we now know as Halfords) into one of the largest group of Autocentres across the UK consisting of over 230 branches. Tom then went on to create Aeros with an initial and continued focus of developing young people to pursue their dreams of becoming a pilot.

Grant Shapps MP, Secretary of State for Transport sent a personal message to Tom saying, ‘my many thanks for the work you are doing to make our country a better place.’

Nigel Orme, Director of Strategy and Partnerships for Aeros Groups says, ‘after knowing Tom for many years it is no surprise that this honour has been bestowed upon him as his dedication and commitment to aviation and helping anyone he can to follow their aspirations is well known to everyone in our industry.’

Tom Dunn MBE says, ‘I was surprised, elated and pleased with this honour. I now intend to use this opportunity to push for more equality in pilot training to help with disadvantaged students along with talking to our government to remove VAT from student pilot training.’

Aeros continue to lead the industry with a new initiative within their Education Division by partnering with Colleges and Universities to continue Tom’s vision of giving everyone the opportunity to pursue their aviation dreams.

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“Our new integrated data service offering is designed to support evidence-based training with comprehensive insights. Our unique approach will allow Cebu to effectively collect, assess, and benchmark its operational and training data,” said Nick Leontidis, CAE’s Group President, Civil Aviation. “We continue to innovate and evolve our digital solutions and we are thrilled to partner up with forward-thinking airlines to shape the future of pilot training. We welcome Cebu to the CAE Rise™ family of operators, and we are excited to work with the airline to elevate pilot training and enhance aviation safety.”

About The LOSA Collaborative

The LOSA Collaborative is dedicated to the continuous improvement of global aviation safety. As the premier provider of Line Operations Safety Audit (LOSA) and Threat and Error Management (TEM) education, implementation and benchmarking, The LOSA Collaborative delivers with the highest levels of quality and integrity and offer the best customer service. The LOSA Collaborative has a distinguished group of experts in flight operations, data collection, analysis and statistical validation is led by Dr. James Klinect, one of the original developers of LOSA and TEM.

CAE previously announced in January 2021 a partnership with the LOSA Collaborative to enhance its evidence-based training offering. Through an exclusive service agreement, The LOSA Collaborative will perform Line Operations Safety Audits of CAE customer-operators.

About CAE Rise™ Training System

CAE Rise™ is a data-driven training system that leverages analytics to make pilot training more effective by collecting, assessing, and benchmarking data. The training system supports evaluations and detects errors that instructors might not be able to see, allowing them to focus on assessing soft skills. CAE Rise™ also monitors and reports pilots’ adherence to Standard Operational Procedures by using objective data from flight simulators to measure performance.

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