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All indications are that we have a new flying school, VNE Aviation opening at the airport very shortly. This will take over the Hields Aviation offices at the airport and according to their "website" should begin operations next month. The owner of the company has quite recently acquired Bell 407 G-LUFC and also R.44 G-DHAM. This month two brand new Tecnam P-Mentor aircraft G-VNEA and G-VNEB have been registered to them. These are low-wing two seat training aircraft. The parent company VNE Group, has offices on Wellington Stree in Leeds.

VNE Aviation | The Next Evolution in Aviation Training

Something game-changing is coming to aviation training. A brand-new fleet of cutting-edge glass cockpit aircraft. A state-of-the-art mixed-reality flight simulation facility. A new way to learn faster, train smarter, and fly better.
landing.vneaviation.uk
 
twevsmiff said:
All indications are that we have a new flying school, VNE Aviation opening at the airport very shortly. This will take over the Hields Aviation offices at the airport and according to their "website" should begin operations next month. The owner of the company has quite recently acquired Bell 407 G-LUFC and also R.44 G-DHAM. This month two brand new Tecnam P-Mentor aircraft G-VNEA and G-VNEB have been registered to them. These are low-wing two seat training aircraft. The parent company VNE Group, has offices on Wellington Stree in Leeds.

VNE Aviation | The Next Evolution in Aviation Training

Something game-changing is coming to aviation training. A brand-new fleet of cutting-edge glass cockpit aircraft. A state-of-the-art mixed-reality flight simulation facility. A new way to learn faster, train smarter, and fly better.
landing.vneaviation.uk
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Clear to see which footy team the owner supports. So are Hields withdrawing back to just Sherburn ops then are is this a buy out?
 
Len Fish said:

VNE Aviation | The Next Evolution in Aviation Training

Something game-changing is coming to aviation training. A brand-new fleet of cutting-edge glass cockpit aircraft. A state-of-the-art mixed-reality flight simulation facility. A new way to learn faster, train smarter, and fly better.
landing.vneaviation.uk
The sole director is Adam John Hildreth, 39.

Adam Hildreth - Wikipedia

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I wish him well, but it’s such an easy way to lose lots of money. LBA isn’t well suited to flying school activity any more, and Leeds East has a good setup in YAA and Aeros. Also Sherburn seems to be the place to be for the grass roots flying in that part of Yorkshire.

Think Hields were charging an astronomical amount per hour. Flight training has got progressively more expensive over recent years but their rates were eye watering!
 
Would lots of light aircraft flying round in the summer months be ideal though esp with the sheer volume of flights we see now?
 
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Would lots of light aircraft flying round in the summer months be ideal though esp with the sheer volume of flights we see now?
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They can fly round to their hearts content to the North and East of LBA as long as they dont impact on the military zone, but it's the landing and taking off and taxiing that's the problem at busy times. It must be difficult to schedule lessons when they never really know when they can get off the apron and airborne or land again.
 
White Heather said:
They can fly round to their hearts content to the North and East of LBA as long as they dont impact on the military zone, but it's the landing and taking off and taxiing that's the problem at busy times. It must be difficult to schedule lessons when they never really know when they can get off the apron and airborne or land again.
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Plenty of airspace available around that airport in South Yorkshire to conduct training exercises without conflicting with civil aircraft,
 
twevsmiff said:
The first aircraft for the new flying school, P-Mentor G-VNEB is enroute for Le Touquet on delivery and should arrive at LBA just after midday.

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Nice little trainer! VNE specialising in crosswind training? 🤣 On a serious note - having done all my training at LBA many years ago (other than IR at Oxford) I do think that one gets a very broad experience at LBA. I've often heard it said- learn to fly there there and you can fly anywhere!! Hope it's successful.
 
GolfFox said:
Nice little trainer! VNE specialising in crosswind training? 🤣 On a serious note - having done all my training at LBA many years ago (other than IR at Oxford) I do think that one gets a very broad experience at LBA. I've often heard it said- learn to fly there there and you can fly anywhere!! Hope it's successful.
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Just like learning to drive in bradford, if you can manage to drive in bradford you can drive anywhere!
 
Len Fish said:
Best part about learning to drive in Bradford is that you don’t have to pass a driving test or insure or tax your car. Plus MoTs are optional.
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And if a vehicle fails its MOT on emissions i was told that many a time they just stick the pipe into another vehicles exhaust, although they are aware of this happening so cameras are now present in many mot testing centres.
 
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