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AOPA Taps Flight Schools for Tips; Hands out Awards

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Key Takeaways:

  • The AOPA Flight Training Summit convened over 100 flight instructors and industry representatives to discuss and improve flight training practices.
  • AOPA introduced new field guides for student pilots, instructors, and flight schools, while also gathering ideas for its Center to Advance the Pilot Community.
  • Attendees participated in focus groups to brainstorm best practices for flight schools, focusing on student relationships, milestones, community, and overall student experience.
  • The summit concluded with the presentation of AOPA's inaugural flight training awards, recognizing 11 outstanding flight schools and instructors.
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In conjunction with the annual AOPA Aviation Summit last week, AOPA arranged the Flight Training Summit — a meeting with flight instructors and industry representatives to introduce AOPA’s new field guides to flight training, get ideas for initiatives for the Center to Advance the Pilot Community and announce the winners of the organization’s new training awards.

More than 100 participants attended the meeting. After senior vice president of the Center to Advance the Pilot Community Adam Smith briefed the attendees on the goals and plans of the newly established center and Brittney Miculka, manager of prospective pilot and youth outreach, introduced the field guides, the attendees were divided into four focus groups.

Pia Bergqvist

Pia Bergqvist joined FLYING in December 2010. A passionate aviator, Pia started flying in 1999 and quickly obtained her single- and multi-engine commercial, instrument and instructor ratings. After a decade of working in general aviation, Pia has accumulated almost 3,000 hours of flight time in nearly 40 different types of aircraft.

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