Jeff Nidle, who completed his private pilot training with Empire Aviation in November 2009, took off for the first time in his fully restored Piper PA-22-150 Tri-Pacer on March 10, 2010. The Tri-Pacer is a high wing, tube and fabric, four seat airplane. Piper built close to ten thousand PA-22 aircraft between 1951 and 1963. Whether […]

Our Spring 2010 Private Pilot Ground School visited the NCDOT Division of Aviation and the Raleigh FSS at RDU on Tuesday, March 2, 2010. Many thanks to Tom Freeman, our host and Aviation Safety Specialist at the NCDOT, and Bill Hall, Manager of the Raleigh Flight Service Station […]

Mark Littler from Syracuse, NY after his first solo flight.

Ralph Dodds returns to KHNZ after passing his PP-SEL check ride at KDAN (Danville, VA).

Adding an Instrument Rating to your private certificate is challenging and no small accomplishment … but the benefits are tremendous. From a practical standpoint, if you are using an airplane for point to point transportation, it allows you to fly on days when the weather is less than perfect (i.e. into IMC or instrument […]

Mandi Lowe after a solo flight in N5144L at KHNZ. Well done Mandi!