MENTORING Tomorrow's Professional Pilot Leaders - one-on-one mentoring by an experienced professional who shares her knowledge, connections, and guidance personally with you. Mentoring is key to your personal success as a pilot, and also to our collective advancement in aviation. The Ninety-Nines has potential mentors for you in every conceivable pilot career, from ballooning scenic tour operator to Shuttle Pilot. Even better, get matched to a woman professional pilot mentor in your area of interest through our formal mentoring program.
The 99s Professional Pilot Leadership Initiative aims to provide highly motivated women pilots with the tools necessary to develop their pilot careers and leadership, through guided activities and formal mentoring partnerships with women pilot professionals, in a three-phase 18 to 24 month structured program. Get the latest PPLI Fact Sheet.
Get a mentor - be a leader! Participation is open to 99s members who are in or plan to pursue a pilot career. For more information and application
"E.S.P. CheckMate is a 1st for Aviation.
Our new "Emergency Substitute Pilot"tm could save the lives of you and your passengers by providing the most basic and simplest of terms and procedures to the NON-PILOT, in the unfortunate event the real pilot becomes incapacitated. E.S.P. CheckMatetm assists the NON-PILOT in controlling the aircraft, reaching help on the radio, and if necessary, landing the aircraft. The graphical format makes it easy and comfortable to follow. E.S.P. CheckMatetm can easily be the difference in the outcome of this most serious type of emergency."
The Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge provides basic knowledge that is essential for pilots. introduces pilots to the broad spectrum of knowledge that will be needed as they progress in their pilot training. Except Code of Federal Regulations pertinent to civil aviation, most of the knowledge areas applicable to pilot certification are presented.
"Girls With Wings is pleased to announce that we have developed an additional
scholarship for 2012. Girls With Wings has traditionally offered a Private Pilot
Scholarship to help defray the cost of flight training lessons in pursuit of a
private pilot certificate. This scholarship is targeting those individuals who have
soloed but have not completed the Private Pilot Course. The Private Pilot
Scholarship is an award in the amount of $1000.00."
"Pam Melroy, Pilot, 100th Shuttle Flight - STS-92 - Approximately twenty percent of the United States astronauts are women. In the history of the program only three women have been designated as pilot astronauts. On October 11, 2000 Lt. Col. Pamela Ann Melroy USAF, after a two-year delay, became the third woman to make her "rookie" flight into space as pilot on the orbiter Discovery.
"It's Girls With Wings Scholarship Time!
We are currently within our application window for our 2013 Spring Scholarship Award. Girls With Wings has a Private Pilot Scholarship to help defray the cost of flight training lessons in pursuit of a private pilot certificate. This fund targets individuals who have soloed but have not completed the Private Pilot Course."
"Welcome to the Alaska Airmen's Association! With more licensed pilots per capita than any state in the union, the Airmen's Association includes 2,800 members, one of the largest General Aviation state memberships in the country.
Our mission is to promote aviation, enhance safety and support initiatives that benefit pilots and our growing aviation community.
Whether you're a veteran pilot or just discovered a passion for aviation, the Alaska Airmen's Association is proud to welcome new members who share the wonders of flight on the Last Frontier!"
"pilot and biplane, carrying 350 pounds of mail bound first for Cleveland then for points west, as far as San Francisco, disappeared into the early morning gloom. The time was 6:14 a.m. The place, Hazelhurst Field, Mineola, Long Island, and the date, February 22, l921. Ten minutes earlier mail pilot Elmer G. Leonhardt also had taken off from the same field. On the other side of the continent, U.S. Air Mail Service pilots Farr Nutter and Raymond J. Little lifted their de Havillands from San Francisco heading east toward the sun, much of their commemorative airmail addressed to New York."
technical manual to introduce basic pilot skills and knowledge thatare essential for piloting airplanes. operation ofvarious airplane systems. realm of flight and information and guidance in the performance of procedures and maneuversrequired for pilot certification. Topics such as navigation and communication, meteorology, use of flight informationpublications, regulations, and aeronautical decision making
The Aviators is a weekly magazine-style TV series featuring interesting people, the latest aircraft, the coolest technology and the best fly-in destinations. We will take you behind the scenes to show you how airline pilots train, how planes are built, and how ATC works. We will profile aviation businesses and showcase aviation products. We will provide safety tips for private and recreational pilots and career tips for professional pilots.
Why are there so few women pilots in America? In fact, only six-percent of those holding pilot certificates are female. Why is the number of women pilots so abysmally low?
Thanks to research grant support partially provided by the Wolf Aviation Fund, some of the answers are to be found right here at "Teaching Women to Fly."
ABLE FLIGHT PILOTS GIVE BACK WITH FREEDOM FLIGHT 2011
Able Flight makes it possible for people with disabilities to become pilots.
In January 2011, Able Flight pilots Heather Schultz and Sean O'Donnell will do fly Sean's specially adapted airplane on a multi-city tour of a thousand miles to demonstrate to wounded veterans and others that a disability need not be a barrier to realizing a dream. Sean and Heather are also using the journey to raise funds for Able Flight scholarships for wounded veterans, providing a way for them to face and overcoming their own challenges.
Official website of the Centennial of Licensed
Women Pilots. Great international
network to share your enthusiasm and
outreach efforts to promote more women
in aviation. Interesting history of women
in aviation. 2011 is the 100th anniversary
of the first American female licensed pilot,
Harriet Quimby, on August 1, 1911.
"Recognizing that the cost of learning to fly can pose a significant barrier for some student pilots, AOPA earlier this year established two $5,000 flight training scholarships-the AOPA Flight Training Scholarship and the Erral Lea Plymate Memorial Scholarship. In addition, Aviation Supplies & Academics (ASA) and Jeppesen-two of the world's leading providers of flight training materials-approached AOPA to provide scholarship funds as well.
To qualify, applicants had to hold a student pilot certificate but not yet a pilot certificate, complete an online application, and receive two recommendations."