Northeast NIFA regional comp
10-15-2009 | 06:23 PM
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Good luck to you too! If all goes well maybe i'll see ya @ nationals
NIFA stands for National Intercollegiate Flying Association, and every year they host a flying competition for accredited colleges that offer aviation.
NIFA stands for National Intercollegiate Flying Association, and every year they host a flying competition for accredited colleges that offer aviation.
11-01-2009 | 06:32 PM
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Parks College NIFA region VI.
1st in nav
2nd and 3rd in preflight
but alas, being the only ones with Diamonds we sucked in landing competitions and didn't go to the nationals.
At least we have a full year to practice right? right?
Either way, until our school gets a 152 we will never be in the top three in the landing competition and therefore, will probably never go to nationals unless we get top in everything else. Funny thing is, our school owns 1 152, we are just not allowed to use it. Its just sitting there gathering dust and spider webs.
for a school with an endowment close to $1,000,000,000 you would think they could take care of this, but no. We are stuck with DA20s that can't fly into IMC as primary instrument trainers.
1st in nav
2nd and 3rd in preflight
but alas, being the only ones with Diamonds we sucked in landing competitions and didn't go to the nationals.
At least we have a full year to practice right? right?
Either way, until our school gets a 152 we will never be in the top three in the landing competition and therefore, will probably never go to nationals unless we get top in everything else. Funny thing is, our school owns 1 152, we are just not allowed to use it. Its just sitting there gathering dust and spider webs.
for a school with an endowment close to $1,000,000,000 you would think they could take care of this, but no. We are stuck with DA20s that can't fly into IMC as primary instrument trainers.
11-01-2009 | 07:48 PM
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I feel your pain. you guys are using those as primary instrument trainers??? that sucks.
11-02-2009 | 04:39 AM
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Can you imagine filling an IFR flightplan and not being able to follow ATC instructions because we cannot fly into cloud? The students don't get actual IFR and ATC gets mad at us.
Diamond really screwed up with not making the DA20 IFR certified. At least offer it as an option.
11-02-2009 | 07:33 AM
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Can you imagine filling an IFR flightplan and not being able to follow ATC instructions because we cannot fly into cloud? The students don't get actual IFR and ATC gets mad at us.
That does suck though. Sorry to hear that.
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