It has been a crazy month around here. My 9 yr old has gone flying twice this month. Once with the EAA “Young Eagles” program (in a Piper Warrior II) and this weekend at a “Challenge Air” event in a Cirrus SR20 (at least I got to go up in that one). Both of them being great events. Kudos to those folks who put programs like these together and pilots who donate their time and aircraft to spark interest in aviation among the next generation!
Both these programs are great. Any like these over there in the UK?
Here are links to them
EAA Young Eagles
http://www.youngeagles.org/
Challenge Air
http://challengeair.com/flyday.php
By: paulc - 4th March 2008 at 07:14
Popham hosts a ‘starlight foundation’ event every year and is designed to give children a flight experience.
By: Arabella-Cox - 3rd March 2008 at 18:18
Chris,
Youth & Education programmes are indeed active in the UK. The Young Eagles initiative continues as the Young Aviators scheme under the auspices of the Light Aircraft Association and we organise regional events throughout the year plus a national YA weekend which this year is 10th & 11th May.
http://www.lightaircraftassociation.co.uk/Education/education.html.
Within the south west UK region, the Devon Strut of the LAA is also running a Scout Camp on 7th & 8th June at which we give practical tutorials in navigation, weather, principles of flight, instruments etc and the Scouts then navigate our pilots around a 30 minute triangular course to achieve their various aviation badges. The 2007 event is illustrated at http://tinyurl.com/ywrupk
We also have youth Build-a-Plane projects. The first, a national project has a Rans S6 flying and the second is being run in Devon with an X-Air Hawk rapidly approaching completion. Links to the BaP2 website and an ongoing media file are on the Devon Strut homepage www.devonstrut.co.uk
These events are great fun and it’s really rewarding to see the kids’ enjoyment in their new experiences, which maybe will stay with them and prompt future endeavours that will influence the rest of their lives.
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February 25, 2008 at 3:49 pm