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Deadline looms for applying for AOPA flight training scholarships

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Applications must be submitted by April 2, 2019, for the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association‘s (AOPA’s) You Can Fly scholarships. Opportunities are available to help students earn an initial pilot certificate or get started on advanced training, according to AOPA officials.

AOPA is offering more than $1 million in You Can Fly scholarships for primary and advanced training students, high schoolers who want to learn to fly, and teachers who want to introduce aviation in their classrooms. [Read more…]

Latitude Aviation adds multi-engine training

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Latitude Aviation will offer Multi-Engine Commercial Pilot Training based at Pappy Boyington Field (KCOE) in Idaho beginning Feb. 1, 2019.

The school has purchased a Cessna 310 multi-engine airplane that will be offered for instruction towards Multi-Engine Instrument and Commercial pilot certificates, as well as crew and solo rental after completion of the appropriate ground, simulator, and flight training curriculum. [Read more…]

Policy changes could alleviate practical testing backlogs

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The FAA recently released FAA Notice 8900.485, the first of many changes in Designated Pilot Examiner (DPE) policies that the flight training industry has been lobbying for for more than a year.

The hope is that these changes will “help alleviate some backlogs of practical tests in some areas,” said officials with the Flight School Association of North America.

Changes include: [Read more…]

Second edition of ‘Train Like You Fly’ released

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Now available is the second edition of “Train Like You Fly: A Flight Instructor’s Guide to Scenario-Based Training,” which uses real-world experiences to address flight training objectives.

Author Arlynn McMahon explores the key ingredients necessary to make a good pilot, and shares practical techniques to bring it all into the cockpit. Using scenarios, everyone from students to expert pilots can develop, practice, and rehearse their judgment and decision-making skills. [Read more…]

There is joy in doing nothing

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Every now and then I get to do something I really enjoy. I ride along in the right seat of an airplane. More often than not it’s not even my airplane.

I fly with old friends for the most part, although sometimes a new friend sits to my left. I make a suggestion here and there, but I don’t fly the airplane myself. Not unless I have to.

I get to be a CFI. [Read more…]

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