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AOPA Fly-In takes place
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DO YOU HAVE TO BE A PILOT TO WORK FOR AOPA? pilot briefing will take place preparing photogNo. But one of the first things you do when you rapher Chris Rose for a formation flight during
take a job with the association is take an intro- which pilots Tom Haines and Dave Hirschman
ductory flight-that is, if you're not already will discuss the photo mission and two safety
certificated. One of the many CFI-rated col- pilots will also be identified.
leagues takes the new employee flying in one
A wall inside the building identifies some of
of the association's aircraft-a Cessna 172 or 182. the 14 CFIs available to instruct, and every time
Certificated new-employee pilots are checked a new pilot solos, a photograph of the event is
out in the association aircraft after they have signed by staff and displayed on that same wall
completed a three-month trial period. Pilots (my favorite is Editor Ian Twombly hugging the
get reimbursed for about 30 hours of flying big canopy of the R22 he soloed while getting his
throughout the year; new pilots get reimbursed helicopter rating). Congratulatory emails are sent
for training.
association-wide each time a pilot achieves a goal.
So how many pilots work for AOPA? Nearly
Ratings and endorsements are also sup60 percent of the staff. Many took advan- ported by the association-Editor in Chief
tage of the student pilot training offered and Tom Haines recently was type rated in the
taught by fellow employees, and about half Cessna Citation, and Senior Vice President of
Communications Katie
were already pilots when
Pribyl got her seaplane
they were hired. As I write
BY THE NUMBERS
rating. Many staff pilots
this, a flight briefing is tak107 Pilots on staff
are also aircraft owning place across from my
44 Commercial pilots
ers; Technical Editor Jill
office. Staff pilot Mark
11 ATPs
Tallman bought her Piper
Evans (more than 10,000
7 Current student pilots
hours) is preparing eMeCherokee 140 (Miss J) after
35 CFIs
dia Editor Sarah Deener
700 hours, and Hirschman
49 500 hours or less
(fewer than 500 hours)
buys and sells airplanes like
8 More than 5,000 hours
for her solo flight from the
most people buy and sell
17 Aircraft owners
Sun 'n Fun Fly-In in Florida
cars-often even faster.
27% Are female pilots (beats the
back to Maryland in the
national average of 6 percent!)
Reimagined 152. Later, a
EMAIL julie.walker@aopa.org
http://www.aopa.org/fly-ins
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