Our team
Learn From the Best in the Sky
Instructors with thousands of hours across airlines, charter operators and flight schools — and a genuine love of teaching.
Pilot — Chief Instructor
Owen Carter
Owen has logged over 9,000 hours across flight instruction, charter and air-ambulance flying. As chief instructor he sets the standard for every checkride at Altavera — and still flies with private pilot students every week, because he says beginners ask the best questions.
Ratings: commercial pilot, multi-engine and instrument instructor, former air-ambulance captain.
Founder
Miles Bennett
Miles founded Altavera in 2004 with two trainers and a borrowed hangar. Twenty years and 90 aircraft later, he still teaches the Saturday ground school and personally welcomes every new class of students on their first morning.
His philosophy never changed: small groups, honest debriefs, and instructors who know every student by name.
Pilot — Simulator Lead
Clara Dean
Clara runs our simulator centre and the instrument rating program. A former regional airline first officer, she specialises in turning nervous instrument students into pilots who genuinely enjoy flying in cloud.
Ask her about the famous "midnight approaches" — evening simulator sessions that graduates still talk about years later.
Train With Them in Person
Meet the team at an open Saturday or start with a discovery flight alongside one of our instructors.
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