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GYM Christmas Meal, London
On Friday, 9th December,
the Guild will be marking Christmas in traditional fashion at the carol service at St Michael's church on Cornhill, in the City of London. Come down at 6pm to sing along and start getting into the festive spirit or meet us outside the church at about 7pm where the GYM will be branching out on their own for dinner at Relais de Venise before heading back to The Countinghouse to catch up with the rest of the Guild over a round or two of mulled wine/Christmas ale/Jägerbombs!
GYM Fly-in Day @Compton Abbas Airfield, Dorset
Once again the GYM joined forces with the Pooleys team for the Annual GYM Fly-In at Compton Abbas Airfield. The event was rescheduled from earlier in May due to bad weather and was moved to 25 September 2011.
Unfortunately the weather again hampered the efforts of some aircraft during the morning which had to turn back due to the poor visibility. Nevertheless the weather was stunning by the afternoon and a total of 47 aircraft attended during the day.
Visiting pilots received free aviation goodies courtesy of Pooleys Flight Equipment and the award of Concours d' Elegance was presented to Richard Piper who flew into Compton in his beautiful Ryan aircraft.
Saturday 29thOctober 2011
'Flyer' Professional Flight Training Exhibition @Heathrow Sofitel Hotel
The Professional Flight Training Exhibitions take place across Europe and brings together leading flight training organisations, flight training experts, aviation academies, universities and airlines, all under one roof, providing the perfect environment to discover if a career as an airline pilot is for you. More info here.
The GYM will have their usual stand with the sample pilot aptitude testing out in full force for all you that want to have a play around!
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Wednesday 28th September
Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS)
Captain Ray Jones Memorial Lecture on MPL Licensing
On the 28 September, the Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS) is hosting the annual Captain Ray Jones Memorial Lecture. This year, the lecture is being given by Captain Dieter Harms and covers the introduction of the MPL (Multi Pilot Licence). The lecture is part of the Flight Training Conference, which is attended by Heads of Training from airlines around the world. After the lecture, there will be a reception at the RAeS and then the GYM will be moving on to the Punch Bowl pub where it would be great to see as many of you as possible. The lecture starts at 6pm. If that is too early for you, you can still join us for a drink from 8:15pm just around the corner at the Punch Bowl pub. Here are all the details you'll need:
Royal Aeronautical Society, 4 Hamilton Place, London, W1J 7BQ
http://aerosociety.com/Assets/Docs/Events/L45_Capt_Ray_Jones11.pdf
The Punch Bowl, 41 Farm Street, London, W1J 5RP
http://www.punchbowllondon.com/
Don't forget to drop an email to conference@aerosociety.com, just so they have an idea of numbers.
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Saturday 13th August
GYM Gliding Day & Winners Celebration @Lasham Airfield
Come along to Lasham Airfield, Hants to meet our newest members Tom and Lewis and help them celebrate the completion of their gliding scholarship.
Complimentary refreshments and a bbq will be available throughout the day at an exclusive GYM venue where you can meet other young members and learn about the gliding operation at Lasham Gliding Society.
Arrangements are being made to enable GYM members to experience a flight in a glider - more information will follow on times and prices.
So please feel free to drop in for half an hour or stay all day. Other halves, interested friends and dogs are of course welcome too.
Please email events@gapanym.org if you would like to attend, indicating if you would be interested in having a glider flight. (This does not constitute a committment to fly but gives us an idea of numbers).
Click the reports page to read the Lewis Lang one of the winners reports.
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*** Gliding Scholarship 2011 - Now Closed***
A new initiative for 2011, the Guild Young Members (GYM) group are sponsoring two Gliding Scholarships, to be flown during the second week of August 2011 (weather permitting) at Lasham Gliding Society.
The 5 day course is residential (5 nights) and on the Saturday following there is a social event organised by the GYM. Full details of the entry requirements are to be found on the application form.
Closing dates for applications is 23 March 2011 and interviews will be held in London on Tuesday 3 May 2011.
CLICK HERE to download application form
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Monday 28th March 2011 UK Youth in
Aviation Forum @House of Commons
Highlighting the importance of the voluntary organisations involved in aerospace
Taking place at the House of Commons, the GYM
will be talking to MP’s about the various issues regarding youth in
aviation today. This includes reduction of VAT on flying training, apprenticeships
and how the government can help to support volunteer organizations in the
aerospace industry.
Go to http://www.airleague.co.uk/leading-edge/uk-youth-in-aviation/
for further info.
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Tuesday 29th March 2011
The Blades Aerobatic Team Lecture - @RAS HQ (London)
with Sqn Ldr (Ret) Myles Garland
He will also discuss The Blades parent company, 2Excel Aviation, which has expanded rapidly since 2006, now delivering a wide range of aviation based products, from corporate events, to Trials and Evaluation flying in PA31 Navajos aircraft, and most recently operating several charter Beech King Airs for their clients.
*** Free to attend ***
RSVP via events@gapanym.org
Click here for more info
Many of you now proud Guild Young Members.
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Friday 23rd July 2010
GYM at Farnborough Airshow Futures Day
My thanks go to all the guys who pitched in on the day, they did a class A job talking to all the people who turned up and getting them through the tests. For those of you who want to help out at future stand days keep an eye out for the emails and updates on the website. There will be an opportunity in October to help out at the ExCel Careers day 7th -9th October.
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Friday 12th Mar 2010 Date set for Andy Green to Speak at GYM Lecture Andy Green will talk about his new project - to drive at 1000mph - to GAPAN YM members, during this innagural lecture on 23rd Mar 2010 at the RAeS HQ, Hamilton Place. See events page for more info. ---- Friday 4th February 2010 2nd Henshaw Beer Evening Best Yet! The second annual GYM Social on Thurday 3rd February at All Bar One Kingsway was a terrific success, with a great turn out, plenty on 'pilot chat' and much laughter! The Henshaw Beer Evening in memorial to the late Alex Hensahw is one of a series of GYM Socials held throughout the year. Be sure not to miss the next social, notified by newsletter. ---- Tuesday 19th Jan 2010 Scholarships and Bursaries 2010 Open!
- PPL Scholarships (Fixed Wing) 2010
- Flight Instructor Rating (Fixed Wing) 2010
- Flight Instructor Rating (Rotary) 2010
- The J N Somers Scholarship 2011
- The Jet Orientation Courses 2010 (application form available soon)
- Flying Instructor Bursaries
Visit http://www.gapan.org/career-matters/scholarships/ for more info.
Good luck!
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Thursday 12th Nov 2009
Scholarship Awards Dinner 2009
On Thursday the 12th of November following the Court meeting at Cutler’s Hall saw the presentation of the 2009 Scholarships Winners. GYM members Oli Russell and Jas Singh were present to represent the GYM.
GYM would like to welcome and congratulate all the scholarship winners for their excellent effort, the scholarship winners are as follows:
PPL Scholarship Winners: Emma D’Souza, Ronald Dickie, Hannah Cawthorne, Courtney Challis, Christopher Mann, Andrew Griffiths, Thomas Curtress, and Helme Harrison.
JOC Scholarship Winners: David Batchelder and Kelly Cooke.
It was great to meet this years scholarship winners and during the evening Jas and myself were able to speak to most of them. It was pleasing to see their enthusiasm for aviation and it sounded like they all got a great deal out of their PPL Scholarships, which they completed during the summer.
At the time of writing this David and Kelly winners of the JOC Scholarship 2009 are scheduled to start their course in February 2010 at the EPST training facility in Holland, David expressed how much he was looking forward to getting to grips with the 737 simulator.
During the dinner it was also great to hear how the winners had got on with their courses and what their plans were to progress their careers in Aviation. Their was a variety of interest from RAF Fast Jet, Airline to Private Jet careers, which was good to see within the winners. It was great to introduce one winner to a skipper of the company he had an interview with in the coming weeks based in Hong Kong for their Cadet Pilot Programme.
For those who are interested in 2010 Scholarships they are being advertised on the Guild’s website as I write this, and offer a variety of opportunities at a variety of different levels, follow the links below for an application form.
http://www.gapan.org/career-matters/scholarships/
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NEWSFLASH!
GYM joins Facebook
The GYM went 'interactive' in late October when it launched its own page on the 'Facebook' social networking website. The Facebook page enables GYM members to chat to each other online and facilitates the quick and efficient dissemination of information about upcoming events. Most of the GYM communication is already undertaken by e-mail but the Facebook page has enabled a much faster dialogue to take place.
To join the group, search for "Gapan Young Members" under Facebook Groups.
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