Following a soft opening period of several months, Naples, Florida-based Rexair Flight Training has opened the Rexair Professional Pilot Academy in Sebring, Florida.
Based out of the main FBO building at Sebring Regional Airport (KSEF), Rexair Professional Pilot Academy provides ground school, flight training, and housing solutions for students.
The school operates factory-built Vans RV-12 aircraft that meet Technically Advanced Aircraft standards, as well as a TECNAM P2006T for multi-engine training.
“From the start our goal was to provide high-quality one-on-one customer service to our students. We spent our first several months of operation in a real-world testing environment of our systems, aircraft, and facilities with an intentionally limited number of students,” said Michael Hangartner, director of professional flight training.
“When it comes to flight training, Florida has so much to offer,” said Rexair CEO and former Naval Aviator Keith West. “In Naples we’ve been established and successful for a number of years. But we saw a need for a dedicated academy style program that could provide opportunities to students from outside the local area. After a statewide search we determined Sebring Regional Airport is the perfect place to do just that.”
Both West and Hangartner agree the testing phase of the program was worthwhile, but the company is no longer keeping the new expansion of services a low-key affair.
“The first-time pass-rate our inaugural students have achieved has really validated the program and proven this expansion to be a great success,” said Hangartner.
For more information: Rexair.net
Let’s start the training with more respect for the dangers of hugging a propellor!!! For gosh sakes, where’s the CFI? Or is he the grinning fool that allows the student to endanger himself?
Rotax engines aren’t like Lycoming and Continental models. To check the oil level it’s necessary to turn the prop a few blades to burp the oil system. As odd as this may look to us old dudes, that pilot is doing the procedure correctly.
It’s ok the turn a Rotax prop, since it used electronic ignition, not magnetos.
A friend has a Rotax in his RV-12, and had a problem with 1 of the 2 engine computers,.
They aren’t fully redundant, each ‘Lane’ controls and monitors different sensors.
He had to send the 1 computer to a service center who finally had diagnosed it as failed, after his getting assistance for months on trying to determine and resole the fault.