Published by jane on 07 Nov 2009
First update for you
First of all a huge thank you to everyone who has signed their support – keep those signatures coming.
Please do have a look at the piece posted here that Lembit Opik MP wrote inthe Flight Training News. Lembit has also agreed to put some questions to the PM at Prime Ministers question time for us.
Things are moving on now and we finally have a date to meet the Minister for Innovation and Skills and will be attending this on the 1st December, will post again after this to let you all know how it went. Both BALPA and Oxford Aviation will be attending this meeting with me so big thanks to both of them.
I went to the Flyer Exhibition at Heathrow last Saturday to drum up support for the campaign and met some wonderful people there. I really do have to thank Flight Training News who allowed me to take part of their stand for this purpose and gave me valuable pieces of information which will help the campaign.
To finish off with, the last thing to bring to your attention is that we have posted a letter on the “support us” page which you can download and send to your MP, we have even given you a link to find out who your MP is if you are not sure, we couldn’t have made it easier!, so please keep up your support and help me to persuade the government to make changes to the way student pilots fund their training as well as removing the VAT from their fees, it really is time that there was an even playing field regardless of your financial background.
Thanks again everyone, keep putting the word out there.
Until next time
Jane
