Pilot Training Guide
Flight training is exciting, challenging, rewarding, and leads to a fun hobby or fulfilling career. You’ll learn to balance technical training with the freedom of the sky. Flight training will…
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Flight Instructor Jobs
Flight Instructors are the gate keepers to the pilot profession. Any person that dreams of flying heavy jets first needs to learn to fly. Ironically, flight instructing is often the…
Do you Want to Work As Pilot? It’s Time to Get Used to Checkrides
Checkride! The term often conjures fear and long bouts of nervousness for pilots facing down the requirements for one-on-one checks of their skills and knowledge. Any pilot that has obtained…
10 Creative Compensation Ideas to Recruit More Flight Instructors
It’s getting hard to find enough flight instructors! Creative compensation ideas can help to attract and retain needed instructors without significantly adding to costs. As a group, new flight instructors…
Civil Air Patrol to Offer Flight Training Fund
Civil Air Patrol (CAP) will be using funds designated by the U.S. Air Force to begin a program designed to help address the mounting pilot shortage. The goal of the…
Student Pilot Guide
Before you begin flight training, it is important to have a basic understanding of the responsibilities, safety regulations, and issues applicable to such an endeavor. This includes the choice of…
FAA Announces Proposed ATP Licensing Changes
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has released a new draft Airline Transport Pilot Airman Certification Standards (ATP ACS) and Type Rating for Airplane. The document has been released for review…
Fedex Commits $2.5 Million in Scholarships for Pilot Training
Fedex has announced that they will provide $2.5 Million to create scholarships to help the next generation of aviation professionals with the cost of their education. The new pilot scholarship…
Pilot Training Pipeline Bottlenecked at Inability to Secure Timely Checkrides
Flight School Association of North America (FSANA) says it continues to receive reports from flight schools that they are being hampered by an inability to secure practical tests for flight…
FlightSafety Offers to Pay for Flight Instructor Training
FlightSafety International has developed an employment/training program where selected individuals can obtain their flight instructor certificates for free. Pilots holding a Commercial License, Single and Multi-Engine Land with Instrument Privileges…
What is the University Aviation Association
The University Aviation Association (UAA) is a combined effort of 115 colleges and universities and is a professional association providing the voice of collegiate aviation to its members, the industry,…