Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
If you’re ready to learn to fly, Wright State University and First Flight Aviation would like a word with you.
Wright State trustees passed a resolution last week approving pilot training classes, through a partnership with First Flight Aviation, a flight school at the Dayton-Wright Brothers Airport in Miami Twp.
“We’re allowing any Wright State student who is here pursuing a degree to take, as an elective, classes in pilot training,” Gregory Sample, Wright State chief operating officer, said last week at a trustees meeting. “So they could end up graduating from Wright State with their undergraduate or graduate degree as well as being a licensed pilot.”
Under the arrangement, Wright State students may register for flight training classes offered by First Flight Aviation, the university said. The courses will be considered special topic electives, and the credit hours students earn will count toward their graduation requirements.
“I think it’s a really big deal for a number of reasons,” said Glenn Crawford, president at First Flight and a captain for air cargo carrier ABX Air in Wilmington. “No. 1, there’s a severe pilot shortage right now.”
