Society Of Aviation & Flight Educators To Be "What We Had Hoped NAFI Could Have Become"

Moving forward from this weekend's announcement of plans to launch a new group for flight instructors dissatisfied with recent developments at National Association of Flight Instructors, on Monday Take Back Our NAFI (TBO-NAFI) formally announced the formation of the Society of Aviation and Flight Educators.

SAFE is billed by its founders as "a new, independent organization to represent the nation's professional aviation educators," and comes after months of discontent within NAFI over a number of managerial issues and alleged misconduct by the association's Board of Directors.

"SAFE will be the organization that we had hoped NAFI could have become." said Doug Stewart, spokesperson for SAFE. "We are forming this society on the tenets of professionalism, fairness, transparency and accountability. Our goal is to help our industry create safer, more knowledgeable and more confident pilots by providing instructors with resources, products and services in concert with industry partners and the FAA."

The new organization says its members & supporters have already ratified a set of by-laws, "that establish a member centric governance process where all of the organization's Board of Directors will be elected by the membership." SAFE officials note that governance model is followed by other similar organizations, "and was one of the key changes requested by members."

SAFE will solicit nominations for its Board of Directors immediately, with democratic elections to follow soon thereafter.

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