Words cannot explain what a WONDERFUL time we had at the Air Ventures Katama Beach Day Fly In. We want to say thank you to all our students and friends who came out to enjoy the experience. We had a fleet of 11 planes take-off from North Central State Airport, and our students were able to navigate their way to Katama, land on a grass strip runway, taxi, park the plane and walk across the street to the incredibly beautiful South Beach, on Martha's Vineyard Island!!! It's surr

Air Ventures is kicking butt, creating new pilot's one at a time! Over the last few weeks we've had the chance to Solo three students!!! On top of that, one of our commercial students and one of our IFR students, went cross country together, all the way to Arizona! Whoa! We aren't messing around when we say we produce skillful, competent and professional pilots who are confident with their skills! Let's give a big congrats to our courageous students, Regan (shown above), Luke

AoA indicators are certainly cool widgets, and for night flight and actual instrument conditions they are wonderful at improving situation awareness on approach to landing. However, I think that the fundamental issue is pilot training. While it takes more training to obtain a pilot certificate than a drivers license, it's still usually lacking. When I conduct flight reviews there are two major trends that seem to follow most pilots. 1) A lack of understanding of angle of atta

After years of hard work, Alan Tavares passed his commercial pilot single engine land checkride today with flying colors! Alans hard work and dedication over the course of the past 7 years has finally come to a head. The completion of this certificate puts him on the start of the path of realization to a lifelong dream; Becoming a full time professional pilot. Congratulations to him and his family who has had his back since the beggining. Now, Onward and Upward! #commercialpi