“The U.S. Marines taught me there are no limits. Guidance Aviation proved it..” – Charly Mabry [UPDATE 01.24.15 – Charly Mabry was hired as a helicopter flight instructor at the Guidance Aviation flight operations in Baton Rouge, LA. Congrats Charly!] U.S. Marine Veteran and Combat Videographer Charly Mabry, recently became a Certificated Flight Instructor – Instrument, … Continued
Fleet Upgrades To G500H Glass Panels Complete At Guidance Aviation Prescott, AZ., January 13, 2015 – Garmin G500H glass panels have been installed in the Guidance Aviation helicopter fleet. Last year, the primary helicopter flight training organization with flight operations in Prescott, Arizona and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, announced their decision to upgrade their aircraft. Now, … Continued
ADS-B – Gains in Safety and Situational Awareness What is ADS-B ? If you’re a student helicopter pilot just starting at one of Guidance Aviation’s helicopter pilot schools in Arizona or Louisiana, you may have viewed ADS-B info via the Guidance Aviation mobile APP or web portal “MY GA”. ADS-B stands for Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast and … Continued
Celebrating Students, Safety, WWII Veteran, VIPs and the V.A. On Friday, January 16, 2015, 4:00pm – 6:30pm, Students, their family members, and Guidance Aviation staff are welcome to join us for our New Semester Banquet and 3rd Annual Bean Bustin’ Chili Cook-Off, “Chili To A Hotter Standard”, taking place at the “Old Clubhouse” now called the Prescott … Continued
2014 was an awesome year and was once again wrapped up nicely as Santa delivered Christmas cheer to Yavapai Exceptional Industries (YEI!). This was the third consecutive year that Santa has called on Guidance Aviation and their red helicopter fleet to deliver the bearded winter wonder and all his frosty friendliness to the incredible people at … Continued
Husband of 13 years and father of three children, Joel Skaggs, CFI-I, recently graduated from Yavapai College’s Associate of Applied Science (AAS) degree program, Aviation Technology – Helicopter Pilot. Skaggs, who served almost 11 years in the U.S. Marines, got hooked on helicopters during his first ride in the Marine Corp. when a CH-53 took him for … Continued
U.S. Army Veteran Zach Talraas Honors the Words of His Grandfather and Gets More Out Of Life Than He Had Ever Dreamed Zach Talraas is a U.S. Army Airborne Infantry Veteran that never thought he would end up in the streets of Baghdad, Iraq fighting along side his teammates. He never thought about getting wounded. … Continued
Guidance Aviation Celebrating Success at HELI-EXPO 2015 Guidance Aviation will be exhibiting at HELI-EXPO 2015, celebrating sustained growth and success. 2013 and 2014 brought much recognition to the organization with CEO John Stonecipher earning the United State’s Small Business Administration’s Business Person of the Year Award in Washington, D.C. and the organization’s launch of its … Continued
Agenda for New Student Helicopter Aviation Orientation Orientation for new students entering the Yavapai College helicopter aviation program will take place Thursday, January 8, 2015, 8:15am at the CTEC Campus, Room 198-D, 220 Ruger Road, Prescott, AZ 86301. The Schedule is as follows: 8:15am – 8:45am: Dean John Morgan, CTE Introduction to Yavapai College and … Continued
The Annual Sausage Feast may have passed, but no one can forget the sweet smelling sumptuous sausages of Ron Stoks during his bratwurst bonanza! Be expecting more videos like this with our special secret voice-over man! “Sometimes there is a man, a real man…..”