EAA Chapter 640 in Wausau, Wis., has donated $10,000 to the Wisconsin Aviation Hall of Fame to establish a new scholarship fund for aviation/aerospace students from Wisconsin. The largest gift WAHF has received by an individual or organization, the fund will be established at the Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin, Wausau, to endow a […]
Flight Training
WINGsRealityEDU launches online flight review ground school
WINGsRealityEDU has launched a new Online Flight Review Ground School. According to WINGsRealityEDU Co-founder, Michael Lessard, “Our objective in the Online Flight Review Ground School is to improve the pilot’s flight review experience by providing comprehensive training on the subject matter that continues to dominate the accident and incident statistics. Delivering interesting and focused training […]
New members named to NAFI board
Illinois businessman Rick Todd and Congressman Sam Graves have joined the board of directors of the National Association of Flight Instructors. Graves, R-Missouri, is a pilot and sixth-generation family farmer who serves on the House Transportation Committee’s Aviation Subcommittee, which oversees civil aviation, including the FAA, the Transportation Security Administration and the National Transportation Safety […]
Sonex offers T-Flight Transition Training Program
Sonex Aircraft has launched the new T-Flight Transition Training Program, offering type-specific transition flight training for the Sonex line of aircraft. Sonex was recently issued an FAA Letter of Deviation Authority (LODA) authorizing it to provide training for pilots building, buying or considering a Sonex design. The FAA, NTSB, Aircraft Kit Industry Association (AKIA), Experimental […]
Take off with X-Plane
As a college student, Austin Meyer was finding it difficult to keep up his instrument currency. Like so many pilots at the time, he was using Microsoft Flight Sim, but “I wasn’t happy with its flexibility,” he recalled. “I was having a heck of a time passing my currency check.” That’s when he turned his […]
Flying Grandma
By J. DOUGLAS HINTON While there are probably hundreds, if not thousands, of grandmothers flying through the ether in America, how many would you guess took up flight instruction at the age of 55? Meet Leah Dunn of Panama City, Florida, a tall, slim, very personable blonde I met at SunState Aviation on the Kissimmee […]
Flight delay
By RAEANN SLAYBAUGH More than 60 years elapsed before 87-year-old Karl Klingelhofer of Tucson, Ariz., revisited his love of aviation and earned his sport pilot’s license. But if you ask him when he decided he wanted to fly, he draws a blank. He can’t pinpoint an instance or a moment that lit a spark — […]
Kitson wins First-to-Solo challenge
During the 2013 Women Of Aviation Worldwide Week — March 4-10 — that attracted more than 17,000 girls and women to air and space facilities across four continents, pilots flew balloons, ultralights, airplanes, seaplanes, and helicopters to introduce 5,316 girls and women to the magic of flight in a small aircraft with the hope to […]
ATP opens new training centers
ATP is expanding its training network by opening two new training centers. Ogden, Utah (KOGD) opens May 1, and Morristown, N.J. (KMMU) opens June 1. The opening of these two training centers brings the total number of facilities that ATP operates up to 30, according to company officials. “The opening of these facilities represents a […]