Achieving the first solo requires students to take ownership of their training by researching FAR 61.87 requirements and understanding that initial instruction primarily occurs in designated practice ...

For the first solo cross-country, CFIs often have learners fly to an airport previously visited with an instructor, where they must demonstrate PIC abilities, diverse navigation (pilotage, dead ...

Join me on my journey to becoming an airline pilot as I fly solo in the Diamond 40 for the first time. Reflecting on my experience as a student pilot during my integrated flight training in 2012 at ...

6:00. CPS UNVEILS A NEW PROGRAM TO TAKE STUDENTS AT THE ACADEMY AT SHAWNEE TO NEW HEIGHTS. SAM CARTER WENT TO BOWMAN FIELD TO SEE HOW IT’S TEACHING KIDS ABOUT THE AVIATION INDUSTRY. 17 YEAR OLD ...

SANDUSKY COUNTY, Ohio — While most 16-year-olds are learning how to drive, one is learning how to fly. Allyssa Metz has been logging flight hours since she was nine. Just last month, the sophomore ...

Durango High School senior Benjamin Williams is well on his way to becoming a licensed private pilot – thanks in part to the school’s new Career and Technical Education aviation course. Benjamin said ...

LYNCHBURG - The low-pitched groan of the metal doors gave way to a bolt of light as the sky opened up on the darkened hangar. It was early yet, and the glare of the sun still was rising in the east.

BLOOMINGTON — When 16-year-old Landon Wachter took off in small, single-engine plane by himself, his mother said she was not nervous. "They wouldn't let him go up if he wasn't ready for it," Marla ...

My father, Edward Marino, made his first solo flight from Bader Field after WWII and joined the Civil Air Patrol guarding the coast. My first solo flight came on May 17, 1980, the day the airport ...