How UVU Helps their Student Pilots Soar – Part 2

Jared Fahrner, the Senior Standards Instructor within the Aviation program, is responsible for overseeing Junior Standard Instructors and helps with flight instructions and stage checks. Since he was a little kid, he has always known that he wanted to be a pilot. “My first time ever in an aircraft was when I started flight training. And that is probably my most memorable flight. That was just forever ingrained. Yep, forever ingrained in me, I would say.” Fahrner offered to take us out and see what goes into flying a plane in UVU’s program and led us out to plane N103UV. This plane is a DA40, and would be the aircraft we would fly in. There were four seats, the front two having capabilities to fly. We were each given headsets with a microphone, and were instructed to plug them into the plane. Flying in a small aircraft like the DA40 is often noisy, and very difficult to hear the people around you. These headsets allowed us to communicate seamlessly through the noise.

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