| Seidel Chapter Announces CAP Scholarships
Civil Air Patrol Cadets are required to learn the physics of flight, how engines and aircraft systems work, how to read aeronautical charts, airpower history, etc., in order to be promoted. This is a great way to learn everything needed for the FAA Private Pilot's Written Exam. Special summer academies are available for CAP Cadets to receive flight instruction in either gliders (usually SGS 2-33s) or powered aircraft (usually C-172s). This is an intense encampment where they attend ground school half a day and fly the other half with Certified Flight Instructors. The Texas Glider Academy will be conducted July 13-18 and the Texas Powered Flight Academy from July 18-25.
Through the Dallas Aerospace Foundation for Education, the Seidel Chapter provides scholarships for CAP cadets to attend the Texas Wing Powered Flight and Glider Academies. Following CAP recommendations, chapter scholarships provide 50% of the cost to attend. CAP wants the cadet to pay 50% to ensure they are vested in the academy. We provided $475 "scholarships" for the Glider academy and $600 "scholarships" for the Powered Flight academy.
The Executive Council of Seidel Chapter Dallas 232 announced the scholarship awardees for 2009. The Texas Wing Powered Flight Academy scholarship awardees are Andrew Smith and Brandon Billstrand. The Texas Wing Glider Academy scholarship awardees are Brandon Billstrand, Olivia Jane Kearney, Nicholas Schroder, John Lockhart and Robert Serverance.
Each of the awardees will be invited to attend a Seidel Chapter membership meeting in the fall of 2009. The awardees will be encouraged to detail their encampment experience by sharing their “War Stories.”
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