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    Great Pilots Never Stop Learning

    Britt invites pilot and YouTube sensation, FlightChops (aka Steve Thorne) to fly with her at the Pilot Proficiency Center during EAA AirVenture Oshkosh.

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Why We're Winging It

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Winging It follows Brittney Miculka as she travels to ten locations across the country to learn new piloting techniques, sharpen her flying skills, and explore the unique corners of aviation. She'll head to Massachusetts for an upset recovery course with air show pilot, Michael Goulian, to Denver to learn mountain flying, to Case Western Reserve University to get trained as a medevac nurse, and to California to sharpen her skills on emergency procedures, among others. She'll visit flight schools, high schools, universities, and sim centers and will experience something new at each location.

We'll release a new Winging It episode every two weeks, culminating at the Pilot Proficiency Center at EAA’s AirVenture in Oshkosh, WI. Pilots attending AirVenture will get the opportunity to join in the experience, flying scenarios inspired by each location in Redbird simulators at the EAA Pilot Proficiency Center.

You can follow Brittney as she makes her way around the country by signing up for updates and by following Redbird Flight on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. We encourage your to share your personal preparation for AirVenture by using the hashtag #RoadToOsh

Your Host: Brittney Miculka

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Brittney can best be described as a mix between the energetic and optimistic sea sponge, Spongebob Squarepants and the American Pioneer, Amelia Earhart.

Young BrittBorn on Guam and with family spread across the United States and across the world, Brittney has been traveling since she was 6 months old. She is the only pilot in her family, but all of her time spent in airports sparked her love of airplanes and flying. Brittney knew she absolutely wanted to learn to fly at the age of 10 when she first saw the US Air Force Thunderbirds and Sean D. Tucker perform at the Chicago Air and Water show.

Thanks to student loans and a generous scholarship, Brittney learned to fly at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, earning her commercial pilot and flight instructor certificates. Brittney also holds a degree in Aviation Human Factors. While she originally started flight training with the goal of becoming an airline pilot, she soon realized her love of grassroots general aviation and flight training. Brittney worked as a full time flight instructor at the U of I until she took a position with the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA), working to promote and grow general aviation. After eight years with AOPA, she was proud to join the team at Redbird Flight Simulations as the Director of Imagine Flight, a new professional network of Redbird affiliated flight schools devoted to the development and promotion of quality flight training.

Brittney is excited to participate as the host of “Winging It”, so that she can help showcase the best ideas in aviation education. She is also excited that this will be her 10th year attending EAA AirVenture. She recommends that everyone attending AirVenture make the trip out to the seaplane base just before sunset, “it is Oshkosh’s best kept secret”.

When Brittney isn’t out flying, attending airshows, or participating in some ‘hangar talk’, she can be found on her snowboard in the Rockies,  jumping off the diving board at Barton Springs pool or playing Frisbee with her 11-year old Australian Shepherd, Sophie T. Dog.

About General Aviation

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General aviation (GA) is all civilian flying except scheduled passenger airlines. It’s just that simple—and complex.

GA includes flying as diverse as a weekend visit back home and overnight package delivery; as different as emergency medical evacuation and a morning sightseeing flight in a balloon; as complementary as aerial application to keep crops healthy and helicopter traffic reports to keep drivers informed of rush-hour delays.

There are many similarities between how people use their automobiles and how GA pilots use their small aircraft. So if you know anything about how America’s roads and highways work, then you’re well on your way to understanding America’s air transportation system.


Like the family automobile, the family airplane (owned or rented) can provide mobility and pleasure, and it’s almost always a more enjoyable trip by air (after all, every route up there is scenic!). In fact, you might be surprised by just how similar your car is to an airplane.

The family airplane can triple the comfortable range of vacation travel while avoiding the stress and frustrations of heavy traffic. And, of course, the family breadwinners can use the same airplane to great advantage in business by virtue of its speed and flexibility. A common misconception leads some to think of personal or small business aircraft as only for the extremely wealthy. In fact, many people of middle-class means fly airplanes less costly to acquire than a new family car.

More and more people are discovering that general aviation is fast, efficient, and safe, opening a whole new vista of travel opportunities. For both business and personal travel, general aviation means going where you want to go (not just where the airlines go), when you want to go (free from airline schedules), and in whatever degree of privacy you desire. The payoff is greater transportation flexibility and productivity than any other mode of travel can provide.

An estimated 65 percent of GA flights are conducted for business and public services that need transportation more flexible than the airlines can offer. That flexibility can be a hometown businessman flying his own small airplane to see four clients on a one-day, 700-mile circuit, or it can be a CEO and five staff members working at 30,000 feet while en route to a major meeting.

Learning to fly general aviation aircraft is well within the capabilities of the average person, intellectually and physically. Even some disabilities—deafness, for instance—need not keep a person who really wants to fly out of the cockpit. And general aviation has an excellent safety record. More than 90 percent of the roughly 240,000 civil aircraft registered in the United States are GA aircraft. And of the nation’s approximately 625,000 pilots, an estimated 500,000 fly general aviation airplanes. (Incidentally, many airline pilots also fly GA aircraft—for the sheer fun of it!)

Source: AOPA Let's Go Flying!

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Justin Kirchhoff

Video & Editor Guy, Co-Executive Producer

Charlie Gregoire

Chief Co-Executive Producer In-Charge

Josh Harnagel

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