Carol Dodds, General Manager, and the Board of Directors of e-publishing group, announced the Third Annual Comm1 Aviation Scholarship Program for the 2003-2004 flying season. These scholarships represent funding to assist young aspiring aviators with the training required to pursue a career in aviation and to help defray tuition and flight training expenses. The Annual Comm1 Aviation Scholarship Program is at the core of an ongoing series of efforts by the developers of Comm1 Radio Simulators to raise awareness about the importance of pilot communications proficiency at all levels of flight training. 

The total award for the 2003 Comm1 Aviation Scholarship will be $2,000 and will be distributed in two (2) equal amounts of $1,000 each to two individual scholarship recipients. The recipients will be selected from a pool of qualified applicants who have met the published eligibility requirements available on Comm1’s website. The application closes on September 30th, 2003. Scholarship awards will be announced at AOPA Expo 2003 in Philadelphia (PA) on October 30th, 2003.

In addition to demonstrating an interest in pursuing a career in aviation, scholarship applicants will be asked to submit a brief 75-word essay that examines the financial and practical benefits of using interactive radio communications training as an integrated part of a flight training curriculum.

The Comm1 audio-interactive pilot communications training series was designed to help pilots overcome “mic fright” and as a refresher tool for maintaining radio proficiency. Comm1 is considered “an integral part of any quality flight training syllabus” by ground and flight instructors at the most prestigious aviation universities, the US Navy and US Air Force, and ab initio flight training facilities in throughout the US and abroad. 

Recipients of the last two years’ Comm1 Aviation Scholarships have been pilots from all regions of the US – New York, California, Nebraska and Alaska – and had widely varied interests in aviation.  One scholarship winner was a firefighter actively working towards becoming a Certified Flight Instructor and wanted to teach other firefighters how to fly; another was a pre-med student who hopes serve the remote sections of Alaska as a flying physician. The two most recent recipients aspire to become airline pilots, and all are progressing steadily through their flight training and ratings and making significant strides towards their respective aviation goals. 

Since 1998, more than 30,000 pilots and instructors have used Comm1 interactive CD-ROM products for primary VFR and instrument communications training.

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