A Potential Aviation Solution, Rally the Troops

Here I go with my first blog post. Mr. Flora suggested I put this up here after posting it in the forums:

I recently talked to a company in Valpo (Eagle Air) and they have 5 new 172’s and 8 instructors. I negotiated a price with them that would hold so long as we pre-paid at least 10 hours with them per student. The woman I spoke with said it would cost $99 for the plane and $35 for the instructor. I think if we could get a block of kids together to fly on Saturdays they would come to Culver themselves to pick them up.

I have emailed Tony Mayfield, Director of Camps, about this, I know that Culver has looked into this, but maybe if you cadets get your parents on the phone and some of us alumni make calls and get involved we can make it happen and salvage some flight time this summer.

Consider this: If 10 students do not come back this summer because of no flying, then Culver loses what? $40,000. It seems worth a little effort to try this. So maybe everyone that flys or knows someone that flys at Culver, can get them on the phone and rally them to the cause. I am going to send Flyer_Jimi there.

Lets rally on this and try to at least get kids going up during their weekend permit time. Eagle Air is the name of the company. You can reach them at 219-389-0132. Ask for Lisa. She is even trying to see if she can use the Culver airport.

www.jseagle.com is their website.