MILLBROOK AL- To achieve FAA licenses including
a Private Pilot and A&P with Instrument, Commercial and Advanced Ground Instructor
ratings requires dedicated study and resources. But to finance and accomplish
this training by age twenty years old while maintaining academic excellence is
remarkable.
Pilot Savannah Weaver's achievements are in part, a result of Wetumpka EAA Chapter 822 Young Eagles program that introduces youth to flying. The first Young Eagle flight with John Hicks impressed her by what she might become. The young teen began training after her second flight with a pilot who would be her flight instructor. That experience culminated in earning her Private Pilot license on her 17th birthday, April 10th, 2010, and her instrument rating four months later. The next Young Eagles event, she was the pilot introducing Young Eagles to flying.
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-Savannah Weaver (shown at the Wetumpka Airport), is selected for a $4,000 Cessna 190/195 Foundation Aviation Education Grant-
Lloyd Probst, her flight instructor said, "While these are accomplishments in themselves, they are strong indications of exceptional maturity and development in someone so young." Savannah possessed the skill and desire to fly, but needed the resources to cover the cost.
"As many pilots before me, I am known to wash quite a few airplanes to earn a bit more flying money; additionally, I am teaching a private pilot ground school and working with individual students as I can. Funding is what brought her to apply to the International Cessna 190/195 Club Foundation for additional aviation training scholarship. Savannah has a schedule for her flight training amid her college education but she needs funds to complete a CFI and multiengine rating during the holidays.
As high school class valedictorian with a 4.16 GPA, she was awarded an Academic Excellence Scholarship to Auburn University Montgomery- AUM.
"I would not be in college at all if it were not for that scholarship, and with plans to transfer to Auburn University in the fall of 2014, I have had to tighten my flying funds in order to prepare for the increased cost of school," she said, "I am a full time college student at AUM currently holding a 4.0 GPA in pursuit of a mechanical engineering degree, which will ultimately allow me greater opportunities in the aviation industry."
Those opportunities are now much closer for Savannah as she received the notice from the Cessna 190/195 Foundation that she has won a $4,000 scholarship. One other contestant, Samuel Barth of New York, is the recipient of $2,500. The awards will be presented to the two winners at the 190/195 Club Event on September 28 in Mississippi. B Meyer
FMI: A Young Eagle Earns Her Wings Video
Pilot Savannah Weaver's achievements are in part, a result of Wetumpka EAA Chapter 822 Young Eagles program that introduces youth to flying. The first Young Eagle flight with John Hicks impressed her by what she might become. The young teen began training after her second flight with a pilot who would be her flight instructor. That experience culminated in earning her Private Pilot license on her 17th birthday, April 10th, 2010, and her instrument rating four months later. The next Young Eagles event, she was the pilot introducing Young Eagles to flying.
-Savannah Weaver (shown at the Wetumpka Airport), is selected for a $4,000 Cessna 190/195 Foundation Aviation Education Grant-
Lloyd Probst, her flight instructor said, "While these are accomplishments in themselves, they are strong indications of exceptional maturity and development in someone so young." Savannah possessed the skill and desire to fly, but needed the resources to cover the cost.
"As many pilots before me, I am known to wash quite a few airplanes to earn a bit more flying money; additionally, I am teaching a private pilot ground school and working with individual students as I can. Funding is what brought her to apply to the International Cessna 190/195 Club Foundation for additional aviation training scholarship. Savannah has a schedule for her flight training amid her college education but she needs funds to complete a CFI and multiengine rating during the holidays.
As high school class valedictorian with a 4.16 GPA, she was awarded an Academic Excellence Scholarship to Auburn University Montgomery- AUM.
"I would not be in college at all if it were not for that scholarship, and with plans to transfer to Auburn University in the fall of 2014, I have had to tighten my flying funds in order to prepare for the increased cost of school," she said, "I am a full time college student at AUM currently holding a 4.0 GPA in pursuit of a mechanical engineering degree, which will ultimately allow me greater opportunities in the aviation industry."
Those opportunities are now much closer for Savannah as she received the notice from the Cessna 190/195 Foundation that she has won a $4,000 scholarship. One other contestant, Samuel Barth of New York, is the recipient of $2,500. The awards will be presented to the two winners at the 190/195 Club Event on September 28 in Mississippi. B Meyer
FMI: A Young Eagle Earns Her Wings Video