The Ray Aviation Scholarship provides $10,000 for the cost of flight instruction. The Ray Scholarship fund awards 100 of these scholarships each year to be given to a deserving young person through selected EAA chapters. Rosie’s award represents the third consecutive year EAA Chapter 534 has been able to award this scholarship.
Flight Training
Redbird Pro app released
Developed for use with iOS and Android devices, “the app uses artificial intelligence and behavioral design to personalize the proficiency training of pilots and make the daily improvement of their knowledge and skills more achievable, enjoyable, and effective,” according to company officials. Pilots don’t need access to a Redbird flight simulator to use the app, company officials added.
Redbird creates flight sim supplement to AOPA high school curriculum
The new simulator supplement from Redbird gives high schools free access to nearly 70 lessons, expanding their capabilities to immerse students in educational aviation coursework, according to Redbird officials.
Learning teaching with King Schools
What seems like a fairly straightforward process — showing some eager student how to handle an airplane — turns out to be about “correlation,” “primacy,” “complex overt response,” “characterization,” and a lot of other things you never heard of. The new King Schools Fundamentals of Instruction Ground School and Test Prep helps you shoot an approach through the verbal clouds, officials say.
Pilot Proficient offers free Flight Review Ground Course
The course meets the requirements of FAR 61.56 for ground instruction required for the flight review, and features video and multimedia segments, quizzes, and a completion certificate, according to company officials.
New scholarship honors the legacy of Jacquie Warda
Ladies Love Taildraggers have created a new tailwheel endorsement scholarship to honor airshow pilot and mentor Jacquie Warda, who passed away in January 2022. Applications are due April 15, 2022, for the $2,000 scholarship.
Sporty’s slates free webinars
The free webinar cover a variety of topics, from Garmin avionics to home flight simulators.
Can you crowdfund a flight training scholarship?
Learning to fly is expensive, but if a community comes together and everyone donates just a little, that could easily pay for the flight training for a new pilot every year.
Picture of the Day: Wingman
Paul Tomascik submitted this photo and note: “Rockcliffe, Ottawa, Canada, C172; early morning training flight with my student, Abhi, who is flying. I snapped the photo when I looked down after he lifted off the runway and saw this image appear and follow us.”