As the 2017 hurricane season winds down, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Corps officers based in Lakeland, FL, are looking ahead to snow in the forecast, marine mammal surveys, coastal mapping surveys, and atmospheric surveys. For the 110 personnel made up of scientists, pilots, navigators, maintenance, and administrative support staff, the 2017 hurricane...Read More
TOPEKA, KANSAS – In 1976, Aviation Explorer Post 8 celebrated the United States bicentennial by circumnavigating the United States. Flight Instructor Mark Kingman was 19 years old when he piloted two legs during what the Air Explorer Squadron’s called the “Paul Revere Bicentennial Flight.”Read More
Johnathan Mark Smith aka LightSport Man was once told by a Flight Instructor that he couldn’t become a pilot because his stutter would prevent him from passing a medical exam. Smith was turned away from taking flight lessons in 2010, but he persevered and pursued his dream of flying. For some unexplained reason, Smith discovered...Read More
Not every Gleim Aviation customer who earns their commercial pilot license sticks to norm of flying passengers to and fro. Read about these Gleim customers who are commercial pilots with unique expanded skill sets.Read More
Gleim Aviation is proud to announce the release of the 2018 FAA Knowledge Test Prep editions for Commercial Pilot and Airline Transport Pilot (ATP). The Gleim FAA Knowledge Test Prep books provide students with the easiest, fastest, and least-expensive means of passing the FAA knowledge test. The Gleim Knowledge Transfer Outlines at the beginning of each...Read More
Gleim Student Is Plane Chaser, Aircraft Appraiser, Museum Owner, Author, Pilot, Producer As a kid, Gordon Page said he immersed himself in aviation history by avidly reading stories about iconic planes. In Chapter 1 of his book, Chasing Planes, he writes that as a sixth grader, “I could identify anything with wings,” and “as long...Read More
Queens, New York – Attitude Is Everything. These three words are stenciled on the overhead beams of the entrance hallway at Aviation High School (AHS) in Long Island City, Queens, New York are a vintage greeting to more than 2,000 aviation-minded students a day. A banner spanning the hallway that leads to a hangar where...Read More
Human performance scientist and pilot-in-training Dr. Ronald Storm’s theories are proving to be true. “It’s pretty easy to tell which three landings were done with my CFI and which were done solo,” he said about the results of data he collected throughout his flight training experience both in the Gleim Virtual Cockpit simulator and in...Read More
Gleim Aviation is proud to announce the release of the 2018 Knowledge Test Prep editions for Sport Pilot, Private Pilot, Instrument Pilot, Flight and Ground Instructor, and Fundamentals of Instructing. These new FAA Knowledge Test Prep books are now available. Customers using the Gleim Online Ground School or FAA Test Prep Online have already received...Read More
Gleim Aviation is highlighting outstanding aviators, CFIs, teachers and students who have used Gleim Aviation products and the Gleim Knowledge Transfer System to pass FAA knowledge and practical tests. Pasco County Aviation Technology Teacher Steve Franks stores his Civil Air Patrol (CAP) uniform in his office at Hudson High School. “I still got all of...Read More
