Oliver Myers and Darren Mudge, 2 AS-Heli students, were selected for the MDHI MD500 Transition Scholarship valued at $12,000 each. They flew an MD500 to Dallas to be presented with the award at Helicopter Association International (HAI) Heli-Expo 2022. AS-Heli student, Elizabeth Mitchell, conducted research ("Evaluating the Effectiveness of Simulated Flight into Inadvertent IMC") at Heli-Expo 2022 on behalf of Helicopter Association International and the U.S. Helicopter Safety Team. The Preflight Course has a complete Canvas course created, which is free to all new Embry-Riddle Flight students. 284 students enrolled in the 2021-2022 school year 85% of students are actively participating in the course Dorothea Ivanova, Embry-Riddle professor of Meteorology, co-authored a presentation in the summer of 2021 with Dr. David Mitchell from the Desert Research Institute (DRI) titled "Can Summer Rainfall in the American Southwest be Increased?" New findings and ideas for monsoon research were featured.
100% of those students who checked in “ready to fly” with paperwork were assigned and flying in the Fall 2021 term. Flights exceeded 5,000 flight hours in a 30-day period during October 2021 for the first time in over 20 years. Prescott Airport in 2021 exceeded 217,000 operations, making it the busiest airport in the United States for locally assigned aircraft operations. The college set a new milestone with 130 instructors on staff – the most in the history of Prescott’s Flight Department. The Flight Department purchased $13 million of aircraft in the last year as part of a 100% fleet renewal plan to be completed in 2024. The current training fleet is 56 Cessna 172s and 8 DA-42s; in the Fall of 2018 (3.5 years ago), there were 19 Cessna Aircraft and 4 DA-42s.
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