AOPA Flight Training Excellence Awards

The AOPA Flight Training Excellence Awards, brought to you by Flight Training magazine, are designed to encourage best practices and recognize flight schools and independent training professionals who put those practices to work every day. They are based on AOPA’s flight training student retention research that identified 47 distinct elements that contribute to an optimal flight training experience broken down into four main categories: educational quality; customer focus; community; and information sharing.

The Flight Training Excellence Awards will be given annually to flight schools and independent flight training providers who exhibit the highest levels of success by practicing these principles. They will be awarded at the AOPA Aviation Summit in Palm Springs this October.

If you are aware of a flight school or independent training professional that’s doing an exceptional job of supporting student pilots and helping them succeed, please tell us a little about them by completing the online nomination survey. Encourage your fellow pilots and student pilots to do the same. The more people who become actively involved in this effort to promote successful training models, the better.