Moving Forward During May 2019
This last month or so has been devoted to reviewing our experiences in Mexico in April “With God as My Co-Pilot” youth training. The review we did (thanks to everyone who was involved) was quite helpful and identified new ways of approaching the training as well as identified the importance of having younger pilots involved in speaking to youth.
This month has also involved buying the bits and pieces needed to put together two working flight simulator setups. Each setup requires a desktop with enough speed and memory, a descent graphics card, speakers, monitor, the simulator itself (yoke, throttle quadrant, and pedals), and of course the software (X-plane 11, plus FSX since it can be used in some situations where X-plane may not always work as well). Most of the pieces comes from Amazon, eBay, Kijiji, and AliExpress. The last piece I need is required to upgrade the cpu for one of the work station – it is ordered and expected in a week or two.
I’ve also been updating the syllabus for a new three-day workshop for use in Canada this summer. I’ll be posting new training programs on the website later on next month.
Help Wanted: If anyone in the Regina area has flying experience and / or flight simulation experience and is interested in helping out in the “With God as My Co-Pilot”, please feel free to contact me asap and we can discuss the possibilities available! Morning Star Ministries have kindly hosted the program over the last two years, with some support from the Regina Flying Club. This year I am planning on approaching more churches to help host a youth program (and possibly an adult program) in Regina this summer – so more help and interest really is needed.