Volume 4, Issue 17 - Feb. 3, 1982

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0rNlSBDEa THE DRAFT: lt. could be implemented. In doubt about it? There are others like you and people willing to help.

MONEY: There's going to be less for higher education.

THE AURARIA CAMPUS PAPERS: There have been a

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Flyers shot down by Pro Flight Pro Flight for their training

by Brian Coffey-Weber

anyway.

and J, Patrick Oleary

In the fall of

1980

the

MSC

Aerospace Science DePartment sent its students to a companY called Pro Flight for their flight gtraining. The outside instruction was necessary since the school owns no airplanes.

It was all blue skv until November of 1981. There are dark clouds now. ' The 17 MSC flight students are now out over $18,000 and Pro Ftight is out of business. While the damage done is clear, who is responsible is not. + One point of contention is that MSC recommended Pro Flight to its students without first signing a contract for the service. State law requires that a company submit a financial statement and proof of '.bonding before MSC enten into a coltractual arrangement with a firm. Pro Flight never submitted the required documents but MSC still . told the flight students to contact

According to John Utterback, MSC's business manager, the students had to begin their flight

fall

training that semester, Because of time constraints they were told to go to Pro Flight since it had been the low bidder for the service. Even though the contract had not been signed, Utterback contends that pulling the students out of the classes after the training

submitted the original instructional bid but Pro Flight was to carry out the training. The cpmpany stationery also carried the Air Centet of names of both companies. and Colorado The common denominator is a Arapahoe County. MSC students named Cecil Reimer. Accorman remaingiven option of the were to corporation records in the ding ing with Pro Flight or changing to ol State's office, Reimer Secietarv the new c'ompanies. :representative for Pro Those who opted to stay pvith is the Pro Flight were informed in Flieht, Pro Aviation and a third coipany, A-V & Air Ventures November that the comjrany 'Charters. offer would no longer be able to Pro Flisht is now listed as had instruction instruction the students :had changes until this past summer. At that time the instructional conand signtracts were awarded Hyperion of Bornlder ed with

It was all blue sky until November of 1981. There dark clouds

had started would have been

now.

are i

already paid for.

Another company, Pro Avia: "We were stuck with them," tion, then entered the picture. A Utterback said. "We probably Pro Flight official, Bob Dores, should have stopped them. told Utterback that the studients detrimental.

"It might

have been a mistake could continue their classes ri'ith not to apply pressure sooner." Pro Aviation in Longinont. i The training continued, The Pro Aviation name was:not however, through Pro Flight unfamiliar to Utterback. Accorwithout problems or expected ding to Utterback, Pro Aviation

suspended-from standing in the Secietarv of States' files. Aftempts to reach Reimer have proved futile, Out of the oral agreement from Dores that MSC students continue at Pro Aviation came a written statement to Utterback that Pro Aviation was not in a Position to provide the training.. It also sai<i that Pro Aviation had no

obligation to Pro Flight's students.

is the simPle Part. Who is responsible is not so simPle.

That

Assistant AttorneY General. continucd

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