Up, Up and Awav Setting High Goals

1T9 he collegeyearsare «IL a great opportunity for students to learn to fly, and students at LU havebeen flying since early in thehistoryof the school.

The LU Aviation Club isa group of pilots and aviation enthusiasts led by the students.Theclubarrangestrips, meetingsand provides opportunitiesfor membersto speak with aviation professionals.

Most studentswho learn to fly at LU have an aviation careerinmind.Graduatesof LU'sflightprogram havebecome respected missionary, charter and airline pilots.

The Aviation Club was startedin 1990andmeetsperiodically to hear speakers, take trips orfly.Because of twoseparatelocalairports,LU pilotshave access totenairplanes. Thereisplentyofroom toflyall the members of the club to an airport cookoutor air show.

isabout $2,250.The cost increasesfor studentswhowish tobecome professional pilots because ofthe extraexperiencerequiredto passthe tests for those licenses.

Professional pilots, following graduation,become part ofanenormousindustry.Aviation business analysts estimate that by 1996the American aviationindustrywillneed 10,000newpilots.

"Everyone's interested in flying," Greg Peterson, Aviation Club president, said. "Theymaynot seeminterested at first,but when we show them into an airplane cockpit andletthemfly alittle,they're addicted."

Thecost ofbecominga pilot

"If you haven't been flying lately,"Petersonsaid, "askan LU pilot totake you up. You won'twant tocome down."^

By Stewart Adams

A d Club Alpha Epsilon Rho

Aviation students Stewart Adams, Manager; Chris Phelps,Vice President and Greg Peterson,President; pose beside a Cessna 421 at the Falwell Airport The Aviation Club sponsorstrips to airportsforall aviation enthusiasts.