I am composing this article at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, located in the Midwestern United States. Flight Safety Foundation has formed its first university student membership chapter there. This is part of the value proposition that I wrote about in last month’s column. Students, whether they are in college or high school, are now eligible to be a member of the Foundation for a very nominal fee, US$30.
For many years we have all attended meetings, seminars and conferences, seeing familiar faces of colleagues. However, I noticed that we were not seeing many new and younger faces. To accommodate the additional human resources we will need for the future of aviation safety, we must cultivate interest at an earlier stage in a person’s aviation career. What better place to start than at the university level, in schools that have aviation programs?
Purdue University, as the takeoff site for our first student chapter, has many firsts in academic aviation: the first to…
