Paul,
The article says, “Wiley was a student pilot at the Gulf Stream Academy…”
I’d guess that they mean he was a student at the Gulf Stream Academy - probably with at least a private license already. I can’t find anything to confirm it, but indicators to me are that he was flying a C182 (unlikely a true “Student Pilot” could rent one), and the fact that GSA specializes in Commercial / ATP training, although they do offer initial.
On the other hand, last October we experienced an SR20 accident involving a student pilot and a passenger. Remarkably, they managed to experience a multiple-deer-strike while (almost) flying!
That caught my eye too. I subsequently saw another account of the accident (but donÂ’t remember the source) indicating the pilot had about 75 hours and had just received his Private Pilot license. (Perhaps one of the two accounts was written by Jayson Blair
Richard Ward
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Student pilot carrying two passengers?
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Paul,
The article says, “Wiley was a student pilot at the Gulf Stream Academy…”
I’d guess that they mean he was a student at the Gulf Stream Academy - probably with at least a private license already. I can’t find anything to confirm it, but indicators to me are that he was flying a C182 (unlikely a true “Student Pilot” could rent one), and the fact that GSA specializes in Commercial / ATP training, although they do offer initial.
On the other hand, last October we experienced an SR20 accident involving a student pilot and a passenger. Remarkably, they managed to experience a multiple-deer-strike while (almost) flying!
Click here for the NTSB preliminary report.
Luckily, they lived to (presumably) suffer FAA action.
I’d guess that they mean he was a student at the Gulf Stream Academy - probably with at least a private license already. I can’t find anything to confirm it, but indicators to me are that he was flying a C182 (unlikely a true “Student Pilot” could rent one), and the fact that GSA specializes in Commercial / ATP training, although they do offer initial.
I finally found something to confirm that the pilot I mentioned above was, in fact, a commercial student at the Gulfstream Academy of Aeronautics; although it seems that he was in the 172, not the 182. It also appears that as a result of this accident, the school will no longer teach private, commercial, multi- and instrument-students; they’ll focus exclusively on more advanced training.
