Flight Training Adventure Camps - Reality Flight School for Youth

<BODY> <P><IMG SRC="../Images/wLogoW.gif" WIDTH="321" HEIGHT="55" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3"></P> <P><FONT FACE="Comic Sans MS">FTAC are an adventure packed, co-educational, residential 3 to 9-week summer camp, a school in which people get a chance to learn to do extraordinary, exciting and challenging things  a challenge to grow and develop in ways they never dreamed of. They are at the same time a learner oriented flight school with emphasis on team work, learning through real life situations, fun and adventure. The camps provide young people with an opportunity and an environment in which they can discover and unfold their creative potential.</FONT></P> <P><FONT FACE="Comic Sans MS">The desire to become an airline pilot is optional in this camp. It is open to all active minded, adventure seeking teens (youths ages 14 to 21), boys and girls, who have a desire to excell. That desire, however, is mandatory. The camp, especially the six week version which prepares for the license, is designed to instill a sense of team work, social responsibility, creativity, self sufficiency, situational awareness, good judgement, discipline and a positive attitude -- for these are not only the mark of a good pilot, but of any successful person in life! An airplane will do that to a person!</FONT></P> <P><FONT FACE="Comic Sans MS">But for those who <B>are</B> in the market for a pilot license or even a pilot career, the thousands of miles which the camp travels through the Southwest during training expose the aspiring pilots to new situations every day, preparing them for the real world of aviation! It is much more than "just" flight training -- it's a life experience your logbook will never tell!</FONT></P> <P><FONT FACE="Comic Sans MS">FTAC are not just a great way of learning to fly, they are the best way of learning to fly. They are intense, you live and learn in a focused group of likeminded youths, your instructors are there 24/7, they are fun. (the camps, but the instructors too)</FONT></P> <P><FONT FACE="Comic Sans MS">Learn to fly, expand your horizons (pun intended). Do your first solo flight in an airplane or in a glider  and possibly even get a pilots license. Plus many outdoors activities on a 3000 mile trip through the American Southwest. Live like a gypsy, or like a barnstormer, travel & study in our moving class-room. Enjoy adventures such as river rafting, water skiing, open air theatre, caves, horse back, hiking, primitive camping, parachuting, swimming, cliff jumping, museums, bicycling, mini golf. Count shooting stars as you fall asleep under an airplane's wing.</FONT></P> <P><FONT FACE="Comic Sans MS">Motto: Flexibility in Action!</FONT></P> <P><FONT FACE="Comic Sans MS">The Victorinox Swiss Army Knives Scholarship provides assistance for needy students on a merit basis. Combined with FTAC's own work-study program, it has enabled students in the past to earn their pilots license for less than the cost of food during the camp's time.</FONT></P> <P><FONT FACE="Comic Sans MS">The camp was founded in 1990 by <A HREF="http://www.ftac.info/Dominik.html">Dominik Strobel</A>, a FAA certified flight instructor from Switzerland, in the USA.</FONT></P> <P><FONT FACE="Comic Sans MS"><HR ALIGN=LEFT></FONT></P> <P><FONT FACE="Comic Sans MS">FTAC are also an ideal package for incentive programs, as well as motivational and therapeutical social programs for youths and adults.</FONT></P> <P><FONT FACE="Comic Sans MS"><HR ALIGN=LEFT></FONT></P> <P><STRONG><FONT FACE="Comic Sans MS">For viewing this page in its</FONT></STRONG><FONT FACE="Comic Sans MS"> <A HREF="http://www.ftac.info/youth/index.html" TARGET="_top">full flavor</A> you need a browser capable of displaying frames. 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Please, write to the Flight Training Adventure Camps Director indicate your Name, Address, Age, Phone Number, e-mail Address, and type of browser you are using.</FONT></P> <P><FONT FACE="Comic Sans MS">If you experience difficulties accessing our information at all, we will be happy to send you the information package about our Camps at no charge.</FONT></P> <P><FONT FACE="Comic Sans MS">Contact: <A HREF="mailto:webmaster@ftac.info">webmaster@ftac.info</A></FONT></P> <P><FONT FACE="Comic Sans MS"><HR ALIGN=LEFT></FONT></P> <P><STRONG><FONT SIZE="+3" FACE="Comic Sans MS">FTAC Overview *<IMG SRC="../Images/2666_05.gif" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3" WIDTH="296" HEIGHT="100"></FONT></STRONG></P> <P><FONT FACE="Comic Sans MS">The 3 to 9-week youth camp offers three programs. Scholarships are available for all three:</FONT></P> <P><A HREF="http://www.ftac.info/economy/FunNFly.html"><FONT FACE="Comic Sans MS">Fun-n'Fly Economy Camp</FONT></A><FONT FACE="Comic Sans MS">: a two-week or longer stationary camp based in Cañon City, Colorado and/or Fairfield, Iowa offering very much the same activities as the Tour Camp, except for the actual tour itself. Also offers glider training and an opportunity for first solo in gliders for students 14 years or older.</FONT></P> <P><FONT FACE="Comic Sans MS">Tour Camp Expedition (aviation appetiser program): Three week expedition, covering over 3000 miles with the Magic Bus, assorted ground vehicles, and airplanes. Includes 12 hours of inflight flight instruction, all necessary ground school and tests, and terminates with the first solo flight for students 16 years or older.</FONT></P> <P><FONT FACE="Comic Sans MS">License training program, which is broken down into two parts: Base Camp and Tour Camp</FONT></P> <P><FONT FACE="Comic Sans MS">The Base Camp is dedicated to basic flight instruction and ground school (theory) which includes the following topics: aerodynamics; FAA regulations; aircraft performance computations including weight and balance; airspace; cross country navigation including pilotage, dead reckoning and radio navigation; flight planning; sectional navigation charts; aero medical factors; flight service stations; weather services; and meteorology. It is concluded with the Federal Aviation Administration written exam. The Base Camp is stationary, usually in Iowa.</FONT></P> <P><FONT FACE="Comic Sans MS">The Tour Camp, in this program, is dedicated to the cross-country portion of the FAA Private Pilot curriculum. Instead of flying round trips and triangles, we travel one big circle of over 3000 miles, through the following states: Colorado, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, and California, plus possibly some others; visiting monuments and national parks such as, Arches, Canyonlands, Dead Horse Point, Lake Powell in Glen Canyon, Monument Valley, Zion, Bryce, Snow Canon near St. George Utah, Rocky Mountain N.P., Valley of Fire S.P., Mesa Verde, Four Corners, Meteor Crater, and of course the Grand Canyon, and famous towns like Moab, Utah or Sedona, Arizona.</FONT></P> <P><FONT FACE="Comic Sans MS">During this trip we engage in a number of "extracurricular" outdoor fun adventures, such as: such as river rafting, water ski, open air theatre, caves, horse back riding, boating, hiking, primitive camping, parachuting, swimming, cliff jumping, museums, bicycling, mini golf, rapelling, and more.</FONT></P> <P><FONT FACE="Comic Sans MS">Food during this cowboy-style trip is very simple, mostly sandwich lunches and, time and location permitting, campfire cookout dinners. Accommodation is campground or wilderness camping in sleeping bags under the stary sky, or sometimes under an airplane's wings. Tents are reserved for wimps and anti-romantics. Flexibility in Action is the camp's motto, which translates into team-work, social responsibility, creativity, self-sufficiency, and a positive attitude -- qualities which are not only the mark of a good pilot, but of any successful person in life.</FONT></P> <P><FONT FACE="Comic Sans MS">The Tour Camp is escorted by a number of vehicles, depending on the size of the group. A special feature of FTAC is our Magic Bus, nick-named "One-O-One Mike Bravo", a former Denver transit bus, prominently painted in the FTAC color scheme, which holds our moving class room, equipment storage, and camp headquarters.</FONT></P> <P><FONT FACE="Comic Sans MS">The youth camp is designed for youth 15 to 21 years of age, who are willing to learn a completely new skill and who have the courage to face their inner boundaries and expand their horizons -- literally.</FONT></P> <P><STRONG><FONT SIZE="+1" FACE="Comic Sans MS">Time Building</FONT></STRONG></P> <P><FONT FACE="Comic Sans MS">All camp programs are also open to time builders for add-on ratings for the instrument rating or commercial license.</FONT></P> <P><FONT FACE="Comic Sans MS"><HR ALIGN=LEFT SIZE="1"></FONT><STRONG><FONT SIZE="+3" FACE="Comic Sans MS">*</FONT><FONT FACE="Comic Sans MS">(</FONT><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Comic Sans MS">mainly for search engine robots visiting this site, but also for humans</FONT></STRONG></P> <P><TABLE><TR><TD><FONT FACE="Comic Sans MS">Academic camps. 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