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This episode features an interview with Eric Crump, Aerospace Director at Polk State University, on the innovations taking place in aviation training.

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Eric Crump is Aerospace Director for Polk State University’s Aerospace Program and our special guest tonight. Previously he worked for 8 years as Director of Content Development for Gleim Publications.
Eric gives a history of Polk State and it’s flight training curriculum from humble beginnings to nearly 200 students in the aerospace program and plans to double in the near future.
Eric details what makes their program different from other training programs that do not offer degrees.
The program includes a professional pilot track and an aerospace administration track.
Polk State uses a Redbird Flight Simulator
Polk Aviation Alliance advocacy group and liaison between all the groups participating in this program.
Contact Eric on Twitter: @seeericgo

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If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to study aviation at the college or university level, then this special episode is for you. Co-host Rick Felty sat down for a one-on-one interview with Andrew

Blanchard, private pilot and freshman at Purdue University’s College of Technology. Andrew is specifically enrolled in the Undergraduate Professional Flight Technology program within Purdue’s Aviation Technology school and at the time of this interview had just completed his first semester.

In this episode you get some background on Andrew including his evaluation of different programs at other schools and why he chose Purdue. Then we discuss the program itself with first hand insight into how it works, what a typical day is like and how the program rolls out in the semesters ahead.

But a big part of our discussion is the flying itself. From the fleet of Cirrus SR-20’s to a review of a few recent cross-country flights, Andrew gives us all an idea of what this kind of training is like at the University level.

SMAC072 – Innovations In Aviation Training with Eric Crump Of Polk State College

SMAC040a – Freshman Year at Purdue University’s Aviation Technology Program with Andrew Blanchard