I was surprised and disappointed when I read the headline “C-GCC Grounds Flight Majors” in a local newspaper. Almost two months into the semester, school officials at a community college decided to pull the plug on its aviation sciences program.
Earlier in the year I had been asked, along with another person (even more qualified than I am), to review and evaluate the college’s aviation program. At the conclusion of our evaluation, we made a number of specific recommendations to address several of the problems the college administrators had identified. Their major concern was that the students weren’t completing the requisite flight training for the pilot certificates and ratings for the courses in which they were enrolled or the prerequisites in order to advance to the next level.
