When one thinks of EAA AirVenture, you often picture the grounds of Wittman Regional Airport (KOSH) and its grass field neighbor Pioneer Airport (WS17) teeming with people, airplanes, and tents. But that is just during a few weeks in the summer. When I was at KOSH the last week of April, the place was decidedly quiet, almost Brigadoon-like, with the exception of the Pilot Proficiency Center (PPC) in the educational wing of the EAA Museum.
The 15,000-square-foot center features classrooms, meeting space, briefing areas, and a flight simulation laboratory with 12 Redbird Flight Simulations advanced aviation training devices (AATDs). They were humming as part of the Spring to Proficiency program, the first off-season event described as “an immersive and personal three day IFR clinic” at the center.
