| Florida flight school, Maryland CFI win Excellence awards |
| A Florida flight training business that keeps its customers on course toward their goals, and a Maryland flight instructor who has gone out on her own for the love of instructing, were voted winners of AOPA’s 2016 Flight Training Excellence Awards. Flight Training Professionals, based at Executive Airport in Orlando, and Brenda Tibbs, owner of Bravo Flight Training at Frederick Municipal Airport, received their awards Oct. 25 at the Redbird Migration Flight Training Conference in San Marcos, Texas. Nine additional flight schools and 10 more CFIs were judged to be " outstanding" by their students, while another 60 flight schools and 50 flight instructors were named to the flight training honor roll. READ MORE › |
| Redbird announces financing program |
| Simulator manufacturer Redbird announced a new financing program with Bank of the Ozarks during the company’s annual Migration flight training conference in San Marcos, Texas. The new program enables flight schools to finance new or used simulators directly through Redbird. Depending on the amount financed and the amount of the down payment, interest rates will vary between 6 percent and 9 percent, with terms up to five years, according to a Bank of the Ozarks representative. |
| Electric trainers to depart traffic pattern |
| A unique public-private collaboration is poised to prove that electric airplanes can cut the cost of flight training and venture beyond the traffic pattern. The players include two small towns in California’s Central Valley, a flight school, a nonprofit energy consultant, a community college, and Slovenian aircraft maker Pipistrel. They are creating a network of strategically located charging stations that will allow a fleet of four trainers to leave the pattern, thus removing the principal limitation that has so far prevented flight schools from investing in larger numbers. READ MORE › |
| American Flyers opens Arizona location |
| American Flyers planned to open a Scottsdale, Arizona, location on Nov. 1, with an open house set for Nov. 12. In addition to flight training for the private or commercial certificate or instrument rating, weekend classes will be held for FAA knowledge test prep and certificated flight instructor renewal, according to the Scottsdale Independent. American Flyers also has locations in California, Florida, New Jersey, and Texas. |
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