At Florida Memorial University, a small historically Black university in Miami Gardens, Tremaine Johnson is training to become one of the country’s few Black pilots.making Johnson’s decision to become a pilot — rather than an air traffic controller, as he’d originally intended — notable. His choice also comes at a particularly crucial time, as airlines around the country experience a pilot shortage due to cutbacks during the pandemic.
As Johnson watched the aircraft separate itself farther and farther from the ground, after a few minutes he heard the captain announce that they were cruising at 30,000 feet. “But the biggest problem is that flight school is expensive,” McCormick said. Florida Memorial owns a small plane, but purchasing flight time can be prohibitive. A flight school program for an experienced student costs $71,000. With no previous experience, the cost can be as high as $91,995, according to.
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I’m sure the current GOP house would then counter with a bill to hire “Air Cops” to make sure the skies are really safe….
Anything wrong in teaching the students about slavery, segregation & suffrage? About holocaust, concentration camps & internment camps? About lynching, the Freedom Riders & the Montgomery Bus Boycott? About Brown vs. Board & the 19th Amendment? They all be better people for it?