The Aviation Academy

I applied for this course (aviation operations level 3) as I thought it would lead me in the direction to pursuing a career in the industry and help me towards becoming an airline pilot. When I was looking to apply and browsed the website, one of the career progression options was a pilot and I can confirm that was definitely false advertisement to attract younger people and get the statistics of the college higher. The only best part you can get to with this course is cabin crew, not airline pilot so if you want to be a cabin crew member, this IS for you. After researching in depth into this course I was gutted to find out it didn't help with becoming a pilot at all, you just get to expand on your knowledge and get to know about other departments. The tutors are experienced and have previously worked in the industry before mainly as cabin crew, they're a few pilots there. If you were to speak to any pilot in this modern day and ask them the path they went down they wouldn't know what an Aviation Academy is and I'm so disappointed that I've wasted my time over the last year being on this course and I'm glad I have now left for good, it was a long way to go and I was out nearly 14 hours a day with the travelling etc.I wouldn't recommend this college to anyone as if you had any problems with your career choice or wanted to leave, the tutors would literally persuade you to stay, as again that proves they are only bothered about their stats.

Most of the good lecturers with a high level of experience in the aviation industry have left/retired. Now they're basically filling the places with ex cabin crew members. Probably fine for the BTEC courses but not for the degree level ones.

Beautiful complex

Don't help you with your education. When u try to explain you are finding things hard they just ignore you

Quite disappointing.My son wants to become a pilot but apparently this isn't a place to become a pilot.he was also interested in engineering but this too isn't a place for that .

Open evening for my son to enrol, very well put together and fantastic staff.