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NAFI Names New Board Chair and Hall of Fame Selection Committee

Dan Pimentel
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NAFI board chair-elect Karen Kalishek helped the owner of this Piper M350 with initial M350 training and also brought the airplane back to KGRB with him from Vero Beach, Florida. Courtesy Karen Kalishek
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Key Takeaways:

  • Karen Kalishek has been elected as the new chair of the National Association of Flight Instructors (NAFI), beginning her term on January 1, 2022.
  • A highly experienced and credentialed aviation professional, Kalishek plans to focus on broadening NAFI's reach, improving runway safety, reducing the student pilot dropout rate, and increasing the number of active flight instructors to grow the overall pilot population.
  • NAFI also announced a new selection panel for the Flight Instructor Hall of Fame, comprising several distinguished aviators.
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The National Association of Flight Instructors (NAFI) has elected Karen Kalishek as its new chair. Her term will begin on January 1, 2022.

Dan Pimentel

Dan Pimentel is an instrument-rated private pilot and former airplane owner who has been flying since 1996. As an aviation journalist and photographer, he has covered all aspects of the general and business aviation communities for a long list of major aviation magazines, newspapers and websites. He has never met a flying machine that he didn’t like, and has written about his love of aviation for years on his Airplanista blog. For 10 years until 2019, he hosted the popular ‘Oshbash’ social media meetup events at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh.

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