By Ryan Koch
During the first week of training students will learn the preflight, taxiing, takeoff, climbing, turning, holding altitude, descending, and approach. Destinations will include Winchester, Luray, Martinsburg, Culpepper, Warrenton, and New Market.
By the third and fourth week we are starting to plan the long cross country that will end up taking an entire day. In the past students have flown to Kitty Hawk, Dayton, Ocean City MD and NJ, and even past New York City on the Hudson River corridor. The focus transitioning to landings and procedures needed for solo flight.
By the end of summer school, students should be almost ready to solo, which means fly the airplane without an instructor onboard! The focus of summer flying is on new destinations and
Here is what students from last year are saying about the R-MA Summer School Flying…
“I was glad to have spent my summer flying with Randolph-Macon Academy's flight program. I learned a great amount of vital information about the basics of flying an airplane such as pre- flight, execution of takeoffs and landings, radio communication, and different types of aircraft maneuvers. My enjoyment of and education during the summer program influenced me to come back and attend Randolph-Macon Academy for the school year.”
I was also exposed to life at R-MA and have an appreciation for the great academics and athletics offered during the school year. In the evenings of my first summer, I even had time to earn my Red Cross Lifeguard certificate, and I took the SAT Prep course during my second summer. I can’t say enough wonderful things about learning to fly at R-MA. I highly recommend it. It will be an experience you’ll never forget!”
-Thomas Chandler
Please consider joining us this summer as we takeoff on a new adventure each day!