Earn WINGS Credit What is WINGS?
Part 1 of a Coalition for Aviation Safety Education program on non-towered airport operations. Keith Mueller and two co-presenters work through a scenario covering radio procedures, IFR clearances and releases, surrounding airspace, and weather minimums.
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Elisa D'Antonio has 37+ years as a pilot and 30+ years as a CFI. She holds ATP, CFII/MEI and Advanced and Instrument Ground Instructor certificates, and is a former U.S. Air Force KC-135/C-21 instructor and USAF pilot/flight examiner. She is a college adjunct aviation instructor with 3,800+ hours, including 2,000 hours of dual given.
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Craig O'Mara earned his Private Pilot Certificate in 1970 and his CFI in 1976. He went on to spend 26 years in the Air Force and Reserves, retiring as a C-9A (DC-9-32F) Flight Examiner/Instructor Pilot. Having flown and served as captain and check airman in multiple aircraft models for United Air Lines, he currently is a Captain/Check Airman B787 and is a B747SP Research Pilot for NASA. In addition, he is a part-time captain in Citations and King Airs for a St. Louis charter company and continues to actively give flight instruction for a local FBO.
Craig gives back to aviation as a volunteer in many capacities: flying aircraft for the Commemorative Air Force and the American Flight Museum; serving as a director of the Greater St. Louis Flight Instructor Assn and as a board member of NAFI; and regularly giving Young Eagle flights for his local EAA Chapter. He has 33,000 hours total time and 8,000 hours dual given.
Log in to your FAASafety.gov account, take the course quiz and receive WINGS credit.
