Cascade Warbirds, an organization that promotes the restoration, preservation, operation and public display of historically significant military aircraft, is offering scholarships for Private Pilot Ground School with Introductory Flights to inspire today’s young people to become the aviation pioneers of tomorrow.
Cascade Warbirds, an organization that promotes the restoration, preservation, operation and public display of historically significant military aircraft, seek scholarship applications for private pilot ground school with introductory flights to inspire today’s young people to become the aviation pioneers of tomorrow.
Cascade Warbirds has teamed with Galvin Flight Service at Boeing Field to provide scholarship recipients with tuition, books and supplies, and two introductory instructional flights.
The ground school portion comprises of approximately 55 hours of classroom lectures, visual presentations, group discussions, practical exercises and field trips. Classes generally meet two weeknights per week for 2 ½ hours and one Saturday per week for four hours for six weeks. Successful completion of this program will qualify a student to take the Federal Aviation Administration private pilot written exam.
This award also includes two instructional flights in a light aircraft, the make and model of which will be matched to the student. The first flight will occur part way through the ground school, based on the instructor’s recommendation, and the second flight will occur after the successful completion of the ground school course. Each flight will include a pre-flight briefing, actual taxi and runway procedures, introduction to radio communications, the take-off, a series of in-flight maneuvers, the return and landing and post-flight procedures. These two flights will be logged in the student’s personal logbook and count toward the minimum flight time required to earn a private pilot license.
This scholarship, valued at $1,125, is available for students between the ages of 16 and 21 at the time of award. The number of awards has increased from six to eight this year. Interested students, parents and advisors should visit cascadewarbirds.org/scholarship.htm for the scholarship application.
The deadline to apply is Feb. 28.
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