At the center, certified flight instructors donate their time and expertise to guide pilots through a series of online scenarios. [Photo: Meg Godlewski]
Key Takeaways:
The Pilot Proficiency Center (PPC) has opened its new, permanent home as part of an educational expansion to the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) museum, now featuring classroom space and multiple Redbird flight simulators.
Staffed by volunteer CFIs, the PPC offers an immersive training experience focused on developing pilots' decision-making skills and procedures through structured scenarios, lectures, and simulator clinics.
The new facility provides a more advanced learning environment than in past years, utilizing 12 simulators (including both analog and G1000 cockpits) and emphasizing situational awareness through realistic, challenging scenarios.
The much-anticipated permanent new home for the Pilot Proficiency Center is open for business. The facility is part of an educational expansion to the Experimental Aircraft Association museum.
The first floor has classroom space and now a farm of permanent Redbird LD Advanced Aviation Training Devices and a Redbird Crosswind Trainer.
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Meg Godlewski has been an aviation journalist for more than 24 years and a CFI for more than 20 years. If she is not flying or teaching aviation, she is writing about it. Meg is a founding member of the Pilot Proficiency Center at EAA AirVenture and excels at the application of simulation technology to flatten the learning curve. Follow Meg on Twitter @2Lewski.
