AI Bursary winners
And the winners are… LAA proudly introduces the winners of the 2020 Armstrong Isaacs Bursary awards
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he Association’s Armstrong Isaacs Bursary scheme awards up to £1,500 to five lucky recipients to assist them in completing their PPL or NPPL. Applicants must be 30 years or under at the closing date for applications and have five hours solo, although we do allow some flexibility on the latter requirement. The 2020 crop of applicants exceeded 60 young hopefuls, many looking towards a future RAF or commercial aviation career, but with a healthy number simply wanting to fly for fun or become a flying school instructor. Each applicant completed a questionnaire explaining why they were so keen to fly, how they had funded their course thus far, and previous involvement in aviation related groups etc. The four-person judging team independently marked each applicant to a total possible 20 points and then came together to compare scores and finalise the list of winners. In light of the high number of very worthy applications and the difficulty of paring the list to just five winners, an additional bursary was added, resulting in a total of six lucky recipients in all.
Above Ashleigh Duggan Right top Joshua Creese Right middle Ryan Millen Right bottom Rebecca Norman
The panel also elected to make a special £500 award to a 15-year-old disadvantaged young man, who despite disabilities, is clearly keen to progress his ambition to learn to fly. So, in no particular order, as those rather tiresome Saturday night talent shows are wont to say, we are delighted to present the winners of the 2020 LAA Armstrong Isaacs Bursaries. Ashleigh Duggan. Oxfordshire, aged 23. I first began my flying journey at the age of 16 when I started to learn to glide. Having grown up in an aviation background, with my father working for the Red Arrows, I had caught the flying bug very early in life and now have the ambition to become a flight instructor as well as to fly commercially. I am currently working towards my PPL(A) SEP/TMG with MotorGlide, having achieved 40hrs of flying and completed my ground exams. I now need to do my solo navigation and work up for the flying test. Once I have the PPL under my belt, my next task is to build up hours and do my night and instructor ratings.
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