Bob Rockmaker, president & CEO of FSANA, on behalf of the association recognizes Jim and Nanci Irwin, along with Jim's parents and founders, Flo and Bob Irwin, for their 48 years of dedicated service to the GA industry. Their corporate governance, leadership and vision establish a high benchmark which will help to grow and evolve the GA industry.

In 1965, Aircraft Spruce had one employee (Flo) and one product. Today, there are over 170 co-workers and their catalogue contains over 900 pages and 60,000 products. They ship products from two distribution centers in Corona, California, and Peachtree City, Georgia. 

FSANA seeks your views about the current flight training industry in a short survey, specifically, your impressions about training of pilots for commercial pilot careers.

Currently flight training for the purpose of employment in commercial flight operations, including airlines, can be obtained by multiple methods. The most common approaches to training include local training providers under FAR 61 regulations, at medium and larger scale academy-style training providers who may operate either as FAR 61 or FAR 141 training operations, and collegiate or university flight training programs. The degree of formalization, standardization and structure in each of these methods varies with the end certificates being equivalent.

FSANA is interested in determining current perspectives on civilian training environments and how these perspectives within the aviation community affect the perceptions of best methods and approach to flight training for pilots seeking careers as professional airline pilots. 

Click here to complete the survey.

This is a short survey and won't take long. We appreciate you taking a moment to complete it.

The results of this survey will be published by FSANA in an upcoming Flight School News eMonthly and shared with the aviation training industry.