This year’s program will include an expanded 30-minute review of local accidents, followed by lead speaker Bruce Landsberg, President of the AOPA Air Safety Foundation. Free admission; free parking; cash bar; no reservations required.

EFA will have its own table during the event – please remember to stop by and see our special offers for Crash Course participants only!

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These seminars will provide a structured, training environment that will cover a variety of subjects. Each subject area will be reviewed and discussed in separate 2 hour seminars. Each seminar will be led by a CFI, who will outline the subject matter and offer questions and guidance for discussion of the specific subject area.

Seminars possibly offered:

IFR Flight Planning: Conducting & Discussion
 -Filing IFR flight plans
 -Route Selection
 -Weather (icing/thunderstorms)
 -Equipment
 -Diversions
 -In-Flight Weather Updates
 -Go and No-Go Discussions

VFR Cross-Country Flight Planning

C-172 SP Equipment Use & Advanced Techniques – Get More Out Of Your Avionics
 -KLN94 GPS
 -KAP 140 A/P
 -KX155A NAV/COM
 -HSI

G1000 Advanced Techniques (VFR & IFR)

VFR Flying 
 -Scenario based discussion
 -Considerations for fuel
 -Changing weather conditions
 -Equipment failure/engine failure
 -Diversions
 -When specific aircraft system fails

Flight Test/Check Ride Preparation

Maintenance (The Pilot’s Perspective)

Aircraft Purchase
 -Pre-purchase inspection
 -Fees associated with owning an aircraft
 -Tie-down
 -Hangar
 -Insurance
 -Maintenance

These seminars are for:

• Student pilots: review the aeronautical knowledge areas in preparation for both the written exam and the oral portion of the practical test. May reduce the amount of time for your one-on-one ground school.
• Certified pilots: review your knowledge base in preparation for Bi-Annual Flight Review.
• Certified pilots who are returning to flying after a period of inactivity.

Seminar Topics:

Aerodynamics and Performance

Basic aerodynamics, performance and limitations, real world examples of how to handle wake turbulence, weight and balance, stalls and spin awareness.

Airspace & Flight Planning

Aeronautical charts, airspace system, chart symbology, cross country flight planning and navigation.

FARs and ADM

Certificates and documents, minimum equipment, supplemental oxygen, aeromedical factors, flight publications, FARs and NTSB 830, and Aeronautical Decision Making (ADM).

Aircraft Systems & Pilot Operating Handbook

Operation of systems, engine operations (incl.clearing an excessive mag drop), fuel system, electrical, vacuum, and pitot static systems, and emergency operations.

Weather

Weather information, basic VFR weather minimums (FAA and EFA), on-line weather
services, and interpreting weather charts.

Cancellation

Please give 48 hours notice if you need to cancel so that we can fill your seat and refund your payment. If you cancel less than 48 hours in advance, there is no refund.

Sport Aerobatics is published by the International Aerobatic Club (IAC) – which is governed by the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA).  If you would like to read the articles, please click on the links below to download the PDFs:

Akro Artist (article about her transformation into an aerobatic pilot and the ‘art of aerobatics’) – Sport Aerobatics, December 2009

Training Notes (article about using part of the Doug Yost Scholarship money to train at EFA for an aerobatic contest) – Sport Aerobatics, January 2010

2/50 Impressions (article about the aerobatic competition Lise competed in) – Sport Aerobatics, February 2010

Thank you Lise and Sport Aerobatics for allowing us to reprint these articles for our readers!

EFA will offer both Private Pilot and Sport Pilot training in this aircraft.

We hear about many aircraft with a ‘history’, but we don’t always see one. Owner and Mass resident, Steve Sides, brought his Cessna to us for maintenance early January. When we heard about it’s history, we were floored. As a proponent for aviation and the pilot of the famed “Spirit of St. Louis”, Charles Lindbergh’s legacy lives on in this aircraft. His legacy also lives on with his grandson, Erik Lindbergh, who also flew same transatlantic flight in 2002 to revisit the historic flight of his grandfather 75 years later.

To earn the designation, EFA was required to meet Lycoming specified equipment and facility requirements, maintain required staff training levels, meet or exceed required levels of quality and professionalism, and be capable of handling fly-in customers.

“These standards were set to identify only the best-trained, best-operated service centers,” said Mike Everhart, Lycoming director of Distribution Management & Customer Service. “By identifying and working with shops that meet or exceed our standards, we are building a quality customer support network of dependable, honest, competent and professional service providers that will be known for their technical capabilities and the highest standards associated with the Lycoming brand.”

EFA was established in 1964 and provides pilots and owners services that include: flight training and aircraft rental, sales and maintenance.

Lycoming supports its Authorized Service Centers with online training programs and by designating the centers as the exclusive source for service and support of Lycoming’s soon-to-be available advanced technology – the new iE2 (integrated electronic engine) and the new IO-233-LSA Light Sport Engine.

Lycoming Authorized Service Centers are also the primary source of Lycoming Echelon STCs, Lycoming’s own supplemental type certificate program to upgrade legacy aircraft with modern power plants.

For more information, contact Matt Goulian, Director of Maintenance at (781) 274-7477.

Click here to download a PDF of the complete spec sheet.

Price reduced to $275,000!

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