Kathryn Williams
Owner & Chief Flying Instructor
Kathryn gained her PPL qualification in 1989 at Birmingham Airport. Since then her passion for flying has gone from strength to strength, gaining a Twin IR, Commercial Pilots Licence and Instructor Rating. Recently Kathryn was able to realise a dream of owning a flying school which provides individual tailored tuition, enabling students to fully develop their potential.
Jennie Lyons
Flying Instructor & Examiner
Jennie has been actively involved in the aviation industry for over 40 years, during which time she has owned and managed her own school. After learning to fly she gained her instructors rating in 1975 and is both a Flight Examiner and Radiotelephony Examiner. With such a huge amount of experience, of both flying and teaching, Jennie enjoys a high success rate with her students.
Kim Hampshire
Flying Instructor
Kim has been flying for over 30 years, although he’s a fairly new addition to the Staverton Flying School team. He gets an immense satisfaction out of seeing people develop into competent and safe pilots, and a real sense of fulfilment in the knowledge that he has helped them to achieve their ambitions. Flying is not simply a job to Kim, every flight contains an element of wonder.
Tricia Nelmes
Flying Instructor
Tricia has been flying for over 30 years and instructing since 1984. As a former chairman of the British Women Pilots’ Association she is particularly interested in encouraging more women to fly.
Richard Thwaites
Flying Instructor
Richard has been involved with aircraft equipment engineering and manufacturing for more than 35 years and learned to fly with Staverton Flying School, gaining his PPL in 1997. After several years of private flying he studied for a JAR CPL in 2005 and gained his Instructor Rating the following year. Richard owns and operates a 1944 vintage Boeing ‘Stearman’ biplane, for which he holds a Display Authorisation from the CAA, and a SOCATA TB21 touring aircraft; both of which are kept on the Gloucestershire airfield. So it’s fair to say flying is much more than a job to Richard.
Alan Cleaver (Al)
Flying Instructor
Al joined the RAF in 1957 and flew Javelin, Vampire, Jet Provost, Hunter, Harrier and Puma. He retired in 1994 and since then has instructed on Fixed and Rotary wing aircraft. He is still very much an aviation enthusiast!
David Scott-Harris
Head of Training
As Head of Training, David works with all the instructors at the school to ensure that students progress both successfully and quickly with their training. With 40 years of diverse aviation experience, David has been involved with everything from aircraft crop spraying, aerial photography, aircraft transportation from North America to the UK. He also managed to fit in 13,500 hours of instructing too! All this experience makes David the go-to-guy for all questions relating to students and their training.
Emma Firth
Operations
Emma’s enthusiasm for aviation began as a teenager with aspirations of becoming a professional pilot.
Despite the best efforts of a number of instructors it quickly became clear that her aspirations far outweighed her flying ability. However her love of aviation remained and she spent 8 happy years as an RAF Air Traffic Controller.
As Operations Co-ordinator Emma is the first port of call for students looking to book lessons or arrange a trial flight and is happy to answer any enquiries or questions students may have.
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