Planemaker Teams With King Schools To Enhance Proficiency, Safety

A new, web-based instrument pilot course is the next element of Cessna's Flight Training System, designed to enhance safety and increase pilot proficiency while making the learning process easier to manage.

Cessna has partnered with King Schools to offer the online curriculum. The instrument training course and updated learning management system, the Cessna Course Tracking Application, will be available through Cessna Pilot Centers later this quarter. Cessna also expects to expand the flight training system to include a commercial pilot course.

The instrument training program joins the Cessna Sport/Private Pilot Course as the foundation of Cessna’s effort to make flying more accessible and to re-energize pilot training. “The instrument pilot course provides pilots taking the next step in their development with incredible resources at their fingertips. We’ve used the latest training principles, finely honed in the Sport/Private Pilot Course, to ensure that pilots seeking an instrument rating have the best preparation possible for a lifetime of enjoyable cross-country flying,” said Julie Filucci, manager, Cessna Pilot Centers. “We’ve designed our new online Cessna Flight Training System to provide training anytime and anywhere on the customer’s schedule while giving the flight instructor maximum flexibility to adapt the training to the customer’s needs. In the hands of our Cessna Pilot Center network, it has become the training standard of the future.”

Customers pursuing their instrument rating have access to in-depth knowledge sessions and in-the-cockpit flight previews featuring the Cessna 172S with the Garmin G1000. The Web-based system keeps track of every aspect of their training and they can access training materials from any location where they have access to the Internet. And since it is Web-based, changes and updates can be made to the course readily, with no replacement materials to distribute.

The Cessna Instrument Pilot Course Kit comes with a host of additional materials, including a folding kneeboard and view-limiting device to assist pilots with their training.

Cessna Pilot Centers are flight training affiliates that use Cessna’s proprietary training curriculum and Cessna aircraft, and the network continues to grow. The addition of five flight training organizations to the global network of more than 250 Cessna Pilot Centers was announced this week at Oshkosh.

The newest members of the CPC network are:

• Indy Flight Training, Indianapolis, IN.
• Light Sport Aviation, Riverside, CA.
• Freedom Aviation, Lynchburg, VA.
• Air Orlando Aviation, Orlando, FL.
• ProFlight Aviation Services, San Marcos, TX.

CPCs are flight training affiliates that use the new Cessna Flight Training System and Cessna aircraft and offer customers an array of services including flight training. “We continue to look for the best quality additions to our CPC network as part of the company’s effort to make flying more accessible and to re-energize pilot training,” said Julie Filucci, Cessna CPC manager.

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