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Women are Key to Aviation’s Future

Did you know that March is Women’s History Month, and that Women of Aviation Worldwide Week started March 5? I didn’t, until a friend shared an e-mail from Penny Hamilton, a pilot with a Ph.D. who’s invested a lot of time studying just about every aspect...

Published Wed, Mar 7 2012 2:32 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: General, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, Pilot Population, male, teaching, Teaching Women to Fly, women, dominated, history, industries, march, Women of Aviation, Women’s History Month, Women's History Month

Flying Club May Resuscitate Flying Career

CLEAR! TV doctors bark this sharp-elbowed warning before they shock a restive heart back to a regular rhythm. It is also the warning pilots issue to bystanders before they energize an airplane’s air processer. Seemingly disassociated warnings, several...

Published Thu, Feb 9 2012 2:00 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Airports, General, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, Pilot Population, Wittman Regional Airport, Affordable Flying, Pilot Dropouts, club, club’s, doable, Flying Club, monthly, resuscitate, winnebago

Looking Bach at the Joy of Simple Flight

An old-school reader, annually I must winnow my collected ink-on-paper titles to make shelf room for Christmas newcomers. As they have for decades, the works of Richard Bach survive every purge. Like many others, I met Richard through the pages of Jonathan...

Published Tue, Dec 20 2011 4:00 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Airports, General, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, Light sport aircraft, Pilot Population, Richard Bach, richard, bach, jonathan, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, joy, livingston, newcomers—seeks, seagull, titles

Unmanned & Automated Aircraft: Are We Getting Too Smart for Our Own Good?

Serving the military in Afghanistan According to the The Daily Planet , the blog of Air & Space Smithsonian, in November troops in Afghanistan will likely be resupplied by the K-Max, an automated cargo helicopter. The video is from a test earlier...

Published Mon, Nov 28 2011 4:15 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Airlines, Airports, FAA, Blogging, Aviation Marketing, Aviation Future, Pilot Population, Military, UAV, unmanned, automated, Automated Aircraft, K-Max, messenger, prayed, Unmanned Aircraft, victory

North Dakota Aviation: Front Door to Growth

Lately there hasn’t been much good news about aviation, general or otherwise. Then I went to North Dakota for a story on a one-tech avionics shop halfway between Fargo and Bismarck. A flight school was setting up in the next hangar, an indicator of better...

Published Mon, Sep 26 2011 12:24 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Airports, Business Aviation, General, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, Pilot Population, CFI, flight instructors, dakota, commission, Flight Training Assistance Plan, North Dakota Aeronautic Commission, passport

2010 Updates Pilot Population Highs & Lows

Using FAA data provided by the General Aviation Manufacturers Association’s annual Statistical Databook , I’ve built a spreadsheet of pilot population data back to 1964. Updating it for 2010 revealed a new highpoint in pilot certification: 96,473 active...

Published Thu, Mar 10 2011 2:00 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Airports, FAA, General, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, Light sport aircraft, sport aviation, Pilot Population, Sport Pilot, Private Pilot, General Aviation Manufacturers Association: GA Statistics & Data, 1964, active, Pilot Demographics, Student Pilot

New GI Bill has Wings…Maybe

Earlier this month President Barack Obama signed the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Improvements Act of 2010 into law. For the first time since Vietnam, it will cover flight training under non-degree educational programs. Depending on the veteran...

Published Sun, Jan 23 2011 12:25 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Airports, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, Pilot Population, Military, Learn to Fly, GI Bill Flight Training

Women & Aviation: Still No Real Change

As part of the conversation on the AOPA survey on why students drop out of aviation, we got an e-mail from Dr. Penny Rafferty Hamilton, Ph.D. She had recently completed a two-year research project that led to Teaching Women to Fly , which shares the results...

Published Mon, Jan 3 2011 3:00 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: The Buzz, Airports, FAA, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, Pilot Population, CFI, Women in Aviation, Flight Schools, AOPA Aviation Summit, Student Pilot Dropouts, 420, barriers, female, Female Pilots, male, penny, survey, teaching, Teaching Women to Fly, women

CPC Training Sets Customer Service Baseline

Customer service, as the AOPA student retention survey recently reaffirmed , plays an important role in the student pilot dropout rate. As anyone who has called or visited more than one flight school can attest, the quality of customer service—good, bad...

Published Tue, Dec 14 2010 7:29 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Airports, General, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, Pilot Population, CFI, customer service, AOPA Aviation Summit, Pilot Dropouts, baseline, Cessna Pilot Centers, cpc, customer, service—good

Fixing Flight Training: the FT-IEP

Introduced in Fixing Flight Training: What You Can Do Now!, the flight training individual education plan, or FT-IEP, can be initiated by students, instructors, or flight schools. It has the potential to alleviate three of the four dropout motivators...

Published Tue, Dec 7 2010 2:00 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Airports, FAA, Business Aviation, General, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, Pilot Population, CFI, AOPA Aviation Summit, Student Pilot Dropouts, Student Pilot Retention, iep

Fixing Flight Training: What You Can Do Now!

In the overwhelming number of comments to last week’s Aviation Has the CFIs it Deserves , pilots, instructors, and flight school owners clearly confirmed the veracity of AOPA’s survey that identified the leading causes of aviation’s 80-percent dropout...

Published Thu, Dec 2 2010 10:00 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Airports, FAA, Business Aviation, General, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, Pilot Population, CFI, AOPA Aviation Summit, fsbn, Student Pilot Dropouts, Student Pilot Retention

Aviation Has the CFIs it Deserves

Called with the dawn of Veteran’s Day to substitute for a middle school special education teacher, I missed the online AOPA Aviation Summit presentation that conveyed the results of its survey of flight training dropouts. I haven’t found the archived...

Published Sat, Nov 13 2010 10:44 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Airports, FAA, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, Pilot Population, CFI, administrators, AOPA Aviation Summit, dropouts, Pilot Dropouts, summit, teachers, to—motivating

Individual Effort: Principal Key to New Pilots

Subbing for the middle school gym teacher the other day, I reported for lunch duty at the conjoined cafeteria it shares with Omro High School . There I saw OHS Principal Brett Steffen, who acted on his aviation interest and earned his private pilot certificate...

Published Sun, Sep 26 2010 8:54 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Airports, FAA, General, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, Light sport aircraft, sport aviation, Pilot Population, Aviation Club, foxes, ohs, omro, Omro High School, recreational pilot ground school, Sporty's Pilot Shop, Young Eagles

Let’s Discuss the Future of Flight Training

As I write this, the start of EAA AirVenture Oshkosh is five days away. Between the daily rain showers and afternoon thunderstorms (yes, it’s pretty soggy here) the air is growing increasingly alive with the sound of engines I seldom hear during the rest...

Published Thu, Jul 22 2010 8:40 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Airlines, Airports, FAA, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, Pilot Population, NAFI, EAA AirVenture Oshkosh

Who Will Fly for America Tomorrow?

So, you wanna be a professional pilot, huh? Despite the economy, there will be a good number of vacant cockpit seats in the next decade or so as the last of the baby boomer bulge reaches 65, the airline pilot retirement age. If you are a Wall Street bonus...

Published Tue, Oct 20 2009 1:01 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: The Buzz, Airlines, Airports, FAA, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, pilot shortage, Pilot Population, Airline Safety and Pilot Training Improvement Act of 2009, Sallie Mae, Student pilot loans

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