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Thu, Dec 11, 2008

HAI Announces 2009 Outstanding CFI Award Recipient

Kevin Brandt Is Senior Instructor At Bell Flight Training Academy

It's awards season for Helicopter Association International... and on Wednesday, HAI announced its 2009 Outstanding Certified Flight Instructor Award recipient. Kevin C. Brandt is Senior Flight Instructor at Bell Helicopter, Fort Worth, TX.

Since 1996 Brandt has been Senior Flight Instructor at the Bell Flight Training Academy, where his specialty is transition and recurrent training for standard flight maneuvers and emergency procedures. His calm and confident demeanor in the demanding environment of helicopter flight instruction creates an atmosphere of trust, allowing for a most productive learning experience. His challenging yet carefully structured lessons motivate his students to strive for their best performance.

In addition to flight proficiency, Brandt fosters an attitude of safety during each flight, and in all aspects of flying. His students complete their training as more competent and safer pilots. As testimony to this, Brandt was awarded an HAI Pilot Safety Award upon logging 5,000 consecutive accident and violation-free helicopter flight hours.

Brandt continually expands his knowledge of equipment and teaching techniques. As a licensed A&P mechanic, he incorporates knowledge from that perspective into his flight instruction by teaching students about the entire aircraft. He currently has more than 10,000 accident and violation-free flight hours; over 4,450 hours of flight instruction with more than 2,000 students; and over 70,000 touchdown autorotations with zero accidents, specializing in day and night touchdown autorotations, and precision autorotations. He also has more than 15 years of aero medical flying, and five years of offshore flying experience, and was acknowledged for his humanitarian efforts during the Hurricane Katrina relief operation.

HAI says Brandt's rapport with students makes him one of the most requested instructors for recurrent training at the Bell Flight Training Academy. Brandt's abilities as a helicopter flight instructor, his sense of humor and quick wit, and a genuine concern for his students, have earned him the widespread respect of students and peers alike.

FMI: www.heliexpo.com

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