The University of North Dakota (UND) Flying Team won the National Intercollegiate Flying Association’s 2010 Safety and Flight Evaluation Conference, better known as Safecon. The win marked UND’s sixteenth national Safecon championship in the 25 years that the university has participated in the annual competition. Jim Higgins, coach of the UND flight team, was recognized as Coach of the Year.
Colleges earn points toward the top award for each student who places in a Safecon event. Flying contests include a navigation event, power-off landings, and short-field landings; ground events include written tests on aircraft recognition, cross-country flight planning, and flight computer accuracy; an aircraft preflight inspection competition; and IFR flight using a simulator.
UND won the national championship trophy with a score of 474 points. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s (ERAU) Daytona Beach, Florida, campus took second place with 375 points, and ERAU’s Prescott, Arizona, campus placed third with a score of 294. Southern Illinois University was fourth with 271 points, and the U.S. Air Force Academy placed fifth with 270 points.
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