• CEPA Election, Annual Meeting & November Safety Meeting

    Harper College 1375 S Wolf Road, Prospect Heights, IL, United States

    Evening topics: CEPA Director's Election Annual Meeting November Safety Meeting: Ice and Aspects of Winter Operations Speaker: Lou Wipotnik, Master CFI, CFII, MEI, has earned his Master CFI designation for the 10th time and was the 1996 National CFI of the Year. Holding the Master CFI designation continuously since 1998, Lou was granted Master Instructor Emeritus […]

  • 7 Times Lucky – How to Survive a Low-Altitude Engine Failure (Hopefully)

    Harper College 1375 S Wolf Road, Prospect Heights, IL, United States

    Join CFI Daniel Feldman for an exploration of low-altitude engine failures and the lessons he has learned after seven of them.   Speaker Bio: Daniel Feldman is a CFI Sport with more than 3,500 hours of dual given and over 5,000 total flight hours. He is the owner of Foxtrot Aero, which specializes in light […]

  • Flight Following Or Go Rogue?

    Harper College 1375 S Wolf Road, Prospect Heights, IL, United States

    You take off for your VFR one-hour cross-country. You're about to head into a TRSA, so you call for flight following. It's crazy hot and bumpy, so you tell them your destination, and you are climbing to 8,500 feet. Unfortunately, that's not what ATC has in mind. They say maintain at or below 3000'.  Whoa! […]