Rachel Rice is a current product marketing coordinator with AOPA. She is a student pilot who has always enjoyed reading and writing a wide variety of material, now including content informing members about AOPA products. Rachel has been with AOPA since 2021 and is a graduate of Salisbury University on Maryland's eastern shore.
The beginning of a year has a slow cadence to it, setting a reflective and hopeful tone. Although we’re nearing the end of January as National Hobby Month, now is the perfect time to consider how a new hobby can complement your flying activities. Let the PGB illustrate some examples.
Not only that, but we’ve also been instrumental to flight activities in every pocket of the globe, demonstrating without a doubt that from square one we’ve been just as daring and capable as our male counterparts. This highlight of six women who made flying history, one from every continent excluding Antarctica, is brought to you in honor of women in aviation worldwide week from March 6 to 12.
If you’re a winter sports fan you may know that January is designated as the official month to learn to ski or snowboard. Although January has come and gone, winter is in full swing in much of the US and it’s not too late to get in on the action.
Streaming television and movies has become a default pastime over the past decade for good reason – it introduced a seamless world of advertisement-free entertainment at anyone’s fingertips. Here at AOPA, we’re devoted to getting people to fly as often as possible, but that’s not always practical given weather, air traffic, or other life events. What’s often a lot more practical is firing up the TV and settling into the escapism of cinema. So to celebrate the brand new AOPA World Mastercard® 3% Cash Back1 for streaming category, here’s a compilation of aviation-related recommendations for the most common streaming services. Enjoy!