CFI program offers career info
AOPA's Project Pilot Instructor program now offers enrolled flight instructors professional career guidance and job search services at a 25-percent discount through Aviation Information Resources (AIR, Inc.) of Atlanta.
AOPA's new Project Pilot Instructor program is now the nation's largest program for CFIs, with nearly 4,000 instructors enrolled.
The program offers information and training aids for flight instructors and their students, plus a frequent flier-type rewards program based on the number of students being taught.
Now CFIs can get a discount from the nation's premier provider of professional career counseling and job search products and services. The staff at AIR, Inc., was among those in the 1980s who pioneered the concept of organized, professional job search skills and knowledgeable career guidance for future airline pilots and corporate flight crews.
Project Pilot offers CFIs a 25-percent discount on these AIR, Inc., services:
- The Pilot Career Development System, which includes a monthly newsletter; a 40-page airline career decision guide; a directory of 260 airlines, fleets, and simulators; and an airline application handbook;
- Airline Pilot Starter Kit, including a directory of 2,000 flight schools and brochures on choosing a school, paying for training, and career options; resume and cover letter preparation services;
- Pilot career workshops and job fairs; and,
- Personal coaching and practice for job interviews.
AIR, Inc., was founded by Kit Darby, formerly executive vice president and co-owner of the Future Aviation Professionals of America (FAPA).
Darby knows the pilot hiring game. He has interviewed 20 times with 16 different airlines in the process of getting hired with Braniff, Capitol Air, and Republic Airlines. He is currently a Chicago-based captain for United Airlines, flying Boeing 737s.
Project Pilot Instructor is a free program for CFI members of AOPA. CFIs get special training and motivational materials for themselves and for their students. Instructors earn increasingly valuable premiums and merchandise as the CFI's roster of students increases.
Each student also earns for the Project Pilot CFI a separate entry in AOPA's 1995 sweepstakes to win the First New 172 off the rejuvenated Cessna production line.
"This new benefit for CFIs — a 25-percent discount on AIR, Inc., career guidance, and job search assistance — is just part of AOPA's commitment to providing CFIs the best educational, business, and career resources available," said AOPA President Phil Boyer.
For more information on Project Pilot Instructor, call 800/USA-AOPA.
More mentors and students receive premiums
Sporty's Pilot Shop has awarded a Sporty's Electronic Checklist ($99.95 value) to the following mentors whose students have recently earned their private pilot certificates: Doug Williams, Bill Boyken, George Holzer, Robert Berriman, Wes Gromlich, Glen Webster, David Kratzenber, Richard L. Foreman, Francis Kemp, John E. Jones, Warren McIlvoy, Harlan Pederson, William Haney, Georgios Kattidenios, S. Douglas Mattingly, H. Steve Deal, Andy Makarick, Col. Alex McDermont, John Rodenhiser, James W. Whitmore, Richard Burtner, Christopher Ulibarri, Michael Hildebrand, Bowen R. Leonard, Steve Watson, Robert Squires, Herb Langer, Bill Seltenreich, Lamar Paris, Leo Davenport, Aamer Aslam, Ralph Nicholson, James D. Brower, Ron Jarvis, David Sakrison, Tom Blaskovich, Thomas R. Thompson, Peter J. Buerling, Keith A. Ford, Wendell M. Long, Robert Easley, Daniel Boudreau, Joseph R. Owens Jr., Ronald M. Ash, George Osman, Marv Olsen, Rod Bogan, Donald Ewing, Ronald E. Loftfield, Jose A. Duran, Saul Bresaleir, Robert Narro, Robert Wilson, Charles Maples, Keith Addison, Tim Suttles, Charles W. Winter, Jerome E. Bowdle, Paul E. Pogorzelski, Robert T. Lorenz, Walter Forred, Eddie Owen, Rochelle England, Joseph N. Taylor, Frank Bokoff, Roger Cox, Conrad Lapp, Martin Keating, Melvin J. Smith, Andrew L. Dulin, Thomas A. Berens, Harley J. Meiroff, Fred Peipelman, Kenneth J. Nakamura, Tony Baczynski, Pablo Sarabia Jr., Alex C. Yarborough, III, Michael S. Bryant, Larry R. Johnson, Lewis J. Rattner, Dale Peterson, Brent Behrens, Gray B. Krause, Frank Schlernitzauer, Ray Rawlins, Robert Canfield, Stephen R. Menand, James Ross, William Blohm, B. Lawson, Steven Clark, Charles Wandall, James A. Gillespie, Robert Meyer, Paul Miller, William J. Latsha, Dave Keith, Richard J. Koopmans, and Carol Andrews.
King Schools has awarded a video series (any King Written Exam Video Course [$169 to $199 value] or the complete King "Take- Off" Video Library [$199 value]) to participating AOPA Project Pilot students Sidney Decker and Kizer Jones.
To enquire about eligibility for these awards, call 800/USA- AOPA, and select menu choice 4.
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