Teaching someone to fly is always a challenge. Now imagine that the person you are teaching is disabled. It happens every day, thanks to Able Flight, a non-profit organization founded in 2006 by Charles Stites, a pilot who believes that the life-changing experience of learning to fly is best shared, which is why he created […]
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Flying the Sky Arrow with hand controls
Many years ago, when I was working as a television news reporter, I spent a day in a wheelchair so that I could get an idea of what it was like to be disabled for a story on the American With Disabilities Act. I remember how challenging it was to use a water fountain, get […]
Kuo appointed president of Rhode Island IMC Club
The IMC Clubs has appointed Victoria Kuo, the chief flight instructor of New Horizon Aviation, to be the Rhode Island Chapter President. As a highly qualified volunteer Kuo was chosen to provide her expertise in flight education to the club, according to club officials. Rhode Island chapter meetings will take place every third Thursday at […]
New WAI scholarships available
Despite the deadline to apply for a Women in Aviation International scholarship having come and gone, two new scholarships are now available for 2012. These new scholarships bring the total to 73 individual scholarships valued at $520,900 to be awarded to WAI members. “These generous scholarship sponsors don’t want to wait a year to award […]
Let’s attract the money
At last weekend’s Northwest Aviation Conference a young man asked AOPA President Craig Fuller how to attract more young people to aviation (click here to watch Craig’s full speech). Craig responded by tipping a hat to many of the nations flight training colleges and many of the new lower priced aircraft now available as but […]