Flight Training

Let’s get the obvious out of the way: I was born without arms. I live my life by using my feet as my hands, and that’s precisely how I fly my Ercoupe. But I’m just one person with a disability who’s flown or aspired to be a pilot. Using my feet is natural to me. […]

Upset prevention and recovery training (UPRT) has been developed during the last decade to address the category of accidents ascribed to loss of control in-flight (LOC-I). Rich Stowell, considered a “father” of UPRT, looks at another way to approach LOC-I mitigation with a webinar presented by Aviation Performance Solutions (APS), “Learn to Turn: Laying the […]

Diamond Aircraft has introduced a new version of its DA42-VI flight training device. It provides a simulation platform for flight training organizations to use in delivering multi-crew coordination (MCC) courses in Europe and elsewhere. The company models its FNPT II-approved devices after its DA40 NG single-engine and DA42-VI multiengine aircraft—and a model that emulates both […]

The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association’s program for secondary education has reached a critical milestone, with the STEM-based curriculum now poised for use in 300 schools across 44 states. As AOPA gears up for its STEM Symposium later this fall, it celebrates the advance of the program, which has expanded its reach by 50 percent […]

Southern Illinois University-Carbondale and Delta Air Lines have agreed to provide an accelerated professional pilot program to students of the school’s aviation program, it was announced Tuesday The pact makes SIU the 13th university to join Delta’s Propel Collegiate Pilot Career Path Program since it was launched in 2018. This also marks SIU’s first agreement […]

Oklahoma State University has created a new institute aimed at supporting aerospace industry growth in the Sooner State and beyond. The Oklahoma Aerospace Institute for Research and Education (OAIRE) was formally announced during a ceremony Wednesday in Oklahoma City. University officials said the goal of the institute is to unite the state’s aerospace innovation economy, […]

Amid the bustling activity of a busy Yeager Airport (KCRW), Marshall University marked the official opening of the Bill Noe Flight School in Charleston, West Virginia, this week. University President Jerome A. Gilbert and more than a dozen others cut the ribbon for the Maier Aviation Building and a 12,000-square-foot hangar at the airport. “Back […]

AOPA put out a call to action Tuesday asking pilots to contact the members of Congress to sign the Certainty for General Aviation Pilots Act of 2021 (S. 2458, and H.R. 4645) to clarify the fact that giving or receiving flight training is not considered carrying a passenger for compensation or hire, for either the […]

The National Association of Flight Instructors (NAFI) has elected Karen Kalishek as its new chair. Her term will begin on January 1, 2022. Kalishek, of De Pere, Wisconsin, has been a member of the NAFI board since 2018. She earned her private pilot certificate in 2006. These days, she’s a: designated pilot examiner, ATP, three-time […]

Sitting in a circle of mismatched chairs in a hangar on the Hagerstown Regional Airport in Maryland, the members of EAA Chapter 36 welcomed me in February 2020 as a pilot recently relocated to the area—and they introduced Aidan Bedwell, the chapter’s second winner of a $10,000 James Ray Foundation scholarship. Bedwell, whose journey in […]