Applicants must complete the ground school course, both introductory flights, and submit an essay by September 30 of the scholarship year. Recognizing the cost of the flight training required for a pilot’s license, the scholarship program offers an additional $2,500 Continuing Aviation Education Grant to one scholarship recipient who intends to earn their FAA private pilot certificate within the following year. These two flights will be logged in the student’s personal logbook and count toward the minimum flight time required to earn a Private Pilot license. Each flight will include a pre-flight briefing, actual taxi and runway procedures, introduction to radio communications, the take-off, a series of in-flight maneuvers, the return and landing, and post-flight procedures. The first flight will occur part way through the ground school, based on the instructor’s recommendation, and the second flight will occur after the successful completion of the ground school course. This award also includes two instructional flights in a light aircraft, the make and model of which will be matched to the student. Successful completion of this Private Pilot Ground School will qualify a student to take the FAA Private Pilot Written Exam. The ground school portion comprises classroom lectures, visual presentations, group discussions, practical exercises, and field trips over a period of approximately 55 hours. Classes generally meet two weeknights per week for two and one-half hours and one Saturday per week for four hours over a period of six weeks. Wolf is a member of the Classic Jet Aircraft Association, Cascade Warbirds, the German Fighter Pilots Association and the Society of Experimental Test Pilots.Cascade Warbirds, an organization that promotes the restoration, preservation, operation, and public display of historically significant military aircraft, is pleased to offer scholarships for Private Pilot Ground School with Introductory Flightsto inspire today’s young people to become the aviation pioneers of tomorrow.Ĭascade Warbirds has teamed with several flight schools in the Puget Sound area to provide scholarship recipients with tuition, books and supplies, and two introductory instructional flights. He wrote the flight manuals and took the airplane(s) through FAA certification. Wolf has over 2,800 hours in type, out of 28,000 hours-plus total flight time in more than 150 different types of airplanes.īeginning in 1992, Wolf was a test pilot for the reproduction Messerschmitt Me262 – the world’s first operational jet fighter. Since 1989, Wolf has been a test- and airshow pilot in civilian F-104 aircraft, while also conducting qualitative evaluation flights at USAF Test Pilots School, Edwards AFB, and International Test Pilots School, Cold Lake CFB. He retired in 2000 as Boeing 757/767 check airman and FAA designee, continuing to fly a corporate Boeing 757. to join Lockheed for the CL-1200 “Lancer” (the follow-up airplane to the F-104).Īfter cancellation of the project, Wolf was civilian flight instructor and charter pilot (FAA-Learjet designee) through 1979, then an airline pilot for AirCal and American Airlines. He left the Luftwaffe in September 1970 and moved to the U.S. Developed the zero-airspeed- and vertical recovery procedures for the F-104. Wolf remained with the F-104 Fighter Weapons School as an IP, standardization check pilot, test pilot and academic instructor. He graduated from USAF’s Instrument Pilots Instructor School in 1965, flying the T-38. After graduating (Abitur) in 1959, he joined the German Air Force initial military training, Air Force Academy and preflight screening were followed in 1961 by UPT (Class 62-G) at Craig AFB, Alabama in T-37s and T-33s, then combat crew training in F-84Fs at Luke AFB, Arizona, which he finished as ‘Outstanding Student’ and ‘Top Gun’ during the summer of 1962.īack in Germany, Wolf flew F-84Fs with Fighter Bomber Wing 34 for two years, before transitioning to F-104s in the fall of 1964 at Jever Air Base. Wolfgang “Wolf” Czaia began his aviation career flying gliders at age 14 in his native Germany.
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