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How Rocky Mountain College in Billings, Montana is virtually training the next generation of pilots
From inside the cockpit, it looked as if Emma Tyler, a flight instructor and senior at Rocky Mountain College’s aviation school, was preparing to land the plane she was piloting at Boston-Logan International Airport.
Outside the cockpit, the view was quite different. Tyler wasn’t in the skies above Massachusetts, but several thousand miles away inside Rocky’s Aviation Hall.
Student pilots in the university’s aeronautical science program first receive their private pilot’s license allowing them to fly for personal, noncommercial reasons in clear weather conditions. Next they earn their instrument ratings, allowing them to fly in inclement weather.
They train for their commercial pilots license, allowing them to be paid to fly single engine aircraft, before finally training for their multiengine add-on, which lets them be paid to pilot a multiengine aircraft.
“When you leave Rocky, you should have a commercial pilot certificate with instrument and multiengine ratings,” Tyler said.
