{"id":17952,"date":"2019-08-25T12:08:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T18:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=59649"},"modified":"2019-08-26T07:30:34","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T13:30:34","slug":"an-inclination-for-aviation-students-learn-to-fly-with-real-airplane-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/local-news\/an-inclination-for-aviation-students-learn-to-fly-with-real-airplane-pilot\/","title":{"rendered":"An inclination for aviation: Students learn to fly with real airplane pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery p402_hide\" readability=\"6.5625\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-59649-250\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/08\/0000608-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/08\/0000608-1024x682.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Eli Pace \/ epace@skyhinews.com | Commercial airline pilot Aaron Skinner, left, works with Elijah Boomer and Alex Riesberg, right, during Fly with an Airline Pilot Day on Friday at the Emily Warner Field Aviation Museum in Granby.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"1\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"13\">\n<p><strong>Commercial airline pilot Aaron Skinner, left, works with Elijah Boomer and Alex Riesberg, right, during Fly with an Airline Pilot Day on Friday at the Emily Warner Field Aviation Museum in Granby.<\/strong><br \/>Eli Pace \/ epace@skyhinews.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/08\/0000608-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Commercial airline pilot Aaron Skinner, left, works with Elijah Boomer and Alex Riesberg, right, during Fly with an Airline Pilot Day on Friday at the Emily Warner Field Aviation Museum in Granby.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/08\/0000622-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/08\/0000622-1024x561.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Eli Pace \/ epace@skyhinews.com | Elijah Boomer, left, uses a flight simulator Friday at the Emily Warner Field Aviation Museum in Granby with Alex Riesberg, right.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"0\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"11\">\n<p><strong>Elijah Boomer, left, uses a flight simulator Friday at the Emily Warner Field Aviation Museum in Granby with Alex Riesberg, right.<\/strong><br \/>Eli Pace \/ epace@skyhinews.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/08\/0000622-1024x561.jpg\" alt=\"Elijah Boomer, left, uses a flight simulator Friday at the Emily Warner Field Aviation Museum in Granby with Alex Riesberg, right.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/news\/an-inclination-for-aviation-students-learn-to-fly-with-real-airplane-pilot\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/news\/an-inclination-for-aviation-students-learn-to-fly-with-real-airplane-pilot\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Two boys showed their aptitude for altitude inside the Emily Warner Field Aviation Museum on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you want to be a pilot more or less now?\u201d asked commercial airline pilot Aaron Skinner, as the boys took turns on the museum\u2019s flight simulator.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWay more,\u201d Elijah Boomer replied.<\/p>\n<p>At the museum, Elijah and Alex were engaged, attentive and all about airplanes while Skinner gave them hands-on instruction for Fly with an Airline Pilot Day, a three-hour event for children of all ages.<\/p>\n<p>The boys quickly learned flying is easier than landing, and they did a couple \u201cland Sullies\u201d before the day was over, a reference to Chesley \u201cSully\u201d Sullenberger\u2019s successful landing of a commercial jet in the Hudson River in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Skinner volunteered his time for the event, and he served as an instructor, educator and co-pilot while children piloted different kinds of planes on the flight simulator.<\/p>\n<p>Working with Elijah and Alex, Skinner and the boys all seemed to thoroughly enjoy the experience.<\/p>\n<p>The museum\u2019s flight simulators were donated by the Fantasy of Flight Foundation. The museum is inside the former Rocky Mountain Airways airline terminal at the Grand County Airport.<\/p>\n<p>For more about the museums of the Grand County Historical Association, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/grandcountyhistory.org\/\">GrandCountyHistory.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/news\/an-inclination-for-aviation-students-learn-to-fly-with-real-airplane-pilot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Sky-Hi News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commercial airline pilot Aaron Skinner, left, works with Elijah Boomer and Alex Riesberg, right, during Fly with an Airline Pilot Day on Friday at the Emily Warner Field Aviation Museum in Granby.Eli Pace \/ epace@skyhinews.com Elijah Boomer, left, uses a flight simulator Friday at the Emily Warner Field Aviation Museum in Granby with Alex Riesberg, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17952","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 23:18:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17969,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17952\/revisions\/17969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}