SEATTLE — The folks in the flight training department at Galvin Flying Services, an FBO and authorized flight training provider for Veteran’s Administration (VA) students at Boeing Field, report that the first VA students enrolled in a program offered through... Continue Reading →
Get a free video of your first solo
Posted on September 5th, 2012 by Janice Wood
It’s the flight we remember all our lives and to help you remember it, Nflightcam makes it possible to record your first solo. Better yet, it will produce a professionally-edited HD video of the experience. Free. Continue Reading →
Air Safety Institute releases unmanned aircraft online course
Posted on September 3rd, 2012 by Janice Wood
The AOPA Foundation’s Air Safety Institute (ASI) has released a new interactive online course titled “Unmanned Aircraft and the National Airspace System.” Continue Reading →
Capture your flight hands free
Posted on August 28th, 2012 by Janice Wood
Now available is the Fat Gecko Co-Pilot, which allows you to photograph your best flying or document your training hands free by making it easy to mount any camera inside your airplane for an unobstructed view of the cockpit and... Continue Reading →
Flying above the ordinary
Posted on August 19th, 2012 by Janice Wood
CFII Paul Berge sent along this link to a new video on YouTube from Above The Ordinary, a new website dedicated to getting non-pilots excited about flight enough to get them to drive out to the airport “before our GA... Continue Reading →
New high school leverages aviation to the max
Posted on August 19th, 2012 by Janice Wood
Imagine a high school that takes Fridays off and includes flight training as part of the curriculum. That’s reality for some 300 Albuquerque students at the new Southwest Aeronautics, Mathematics & Science Academy (SAMS) located at Double Eagle II Airport,... Continue Reading →
Stallion 51 celebrates silver anniversary
Posted on August 16th, 2012 by Janice Wood
As Lee Lauderback taxied to the Warbird Ramp on opening day of this year’s SUN ’n FUN, a group of students immediately began pointing at his P-51 “Crazy Horse” and waving to him. He waved back with a big smile... Continue Reading →
New layer of paperwork consequence of Pilot’s Bill of Rights
Posted on August 15th, 2012 by Janice Wood
A consequence of the passage last week of the Pilot Bill of Rights is a new layer of paperwork regarding both pilot certification and FAA medicals, according to officials with the National Association of Flight Instructors (NAFI). The new law... Continue Reading →
AOPA adds fourth flight training scholarship
Posted on August 14th, 2012 by Janice Wood
The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association has added the Jimmie Allen Flying Club Flight Training Scholarship as the fourth award to its Flight Training Scholarship Program. The new scholarship, donated by AOPA member Sarah Wilson who pilots the 1929 Jimmie... Continue Reading →
Sharing a passion for flight
Posted on August 13th, 2012 by Janice Wood
Lewis University flight instructor and 2010 alumnus Leif Holmstrand recently returned from launching the aviation dreams of 15 high school students enrolled in the Legacy Flight Academy in Tuskegee, Ala. The two-week program was held at Moton Field, Ala., the... Continue Reading →
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