To provide perspective on the incident, we reached out to Local FAA designated pilot examiner and owner/instructor of AZ Dawn Sport Flying, Dawn Zurcher, to fill us in on safety procedures for ...

Designated Pilot Examiners are designated by the Federal Aviation Administration to conduct checkrides and exams for potential pilots. Fogarty’s uncle took him on his first flight when he was 13 ...

A designated pilot examiner, DPE, must conduct those test flights to determine if the pilot is ready. Hamlin said there are not enough DPEs to keep up with the demand. He pointed out that DPEs are ...

Schulte, a designated pilot examiner with over 50 years of experience, was in the Aeronca Champion 7EC when it crashed on April 29, 2025 The Redding and North State aviation community is mourning ...

Holt helped develop GPS for flights at Fort Monmouth and certified around 4,000 new pilots as a designated pilot examiner. Holt faced discrimination as a young Black pilot in the 1960s but ...

In addition to running the business, Panepinto was an instructor and a designated pilot examiner for the Federal Aviation Administration. "If you were a pilot and you were from around here ...

Azma was the founder of AZMA Flt. Inc., in Orlando and an FAA-designated pilot examiner with over 20 years of flight experience. Embry-Riddle officials said Capra was a student pilot and Azma was ...

The Redding and North State aviation community is mourning the loss of a Tehama County pilot, with more than 50 years of experience, who died on April 29 in a single-engine plane crash in Cottonwood.