YOUTH FLYING SCHOLARSHIPS

About

The Darling Downs Sport Aircraft Assn. Inc. and the Lone Eagle Flying School Youth Flying Scholarship was set up in 2004 with a view to encouraging younger people into aviation.

Our overall membership was ageing and we were looking for younger members. We also felt that the scholarship was a way that our Club could give something back to the community, in recognition of all the funding that has been received by us over the years from various sources.

The aim of the Scholarship is to train pilots through to pilot certificate issue. We allocate about $ 7,500 per year for the Scholarship program.

The RAAus Giving Young Flyers Training Support (GYFTS) Scholarship program was originally based on the Darling Downs Sport Aircraft Assn. Inc. Youth Flying Scholarship.

We have over 85% completion rate of our Scholarship Program with Scholarship winners gaining their Pilot's Certificates.

The last few years we have been unable to run the scholarship program due to Covid.

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Previous Winners

2005 Winner - Samantha Hodges from Toowoomba
2006 Winner - Andrew McPherson from Toowoomba
2007 Winner - Chris Reinke from Warwick
2008 Winner - Alana Frizzell from Allora
2009 Winner - Logan Norris from Toowoomba
2010 Winner - Nicholas Delany from Toowoomba
2011 Winner - Sarah Gretton from Vale View
2012 Winner - Benjamin Valderrama from Toowoomba
2013 Winner - Emily Coggan from Meandarra
2014 Winner - BJ Scherwin from Clifton
2015 Winner - Mitchell Watson from Toowoomba
2016 Winner - Catherine Thompson from Toowoomba
2018 Winner - Kiara Vandersee from Toowoomba

Some of the Scholarship participants that have gone on to further their aviation career:

Rory Baartz - Virgin pilot
Candice Priebbenow - Military pilot
Andrew Macpherson - QANTAS pilot
Logan Norris – Aircraft Maintenance Engineer, Commercial pilot and GA Instructor

LOGAN'S STORY

Hello,

I'm writing on behalf of Logan Norris. As you are aware Logan's flying career started at Lone Eagle flying school in Clifton with Trevor and David as he won the scholarship in 2009. He will be forever grateful for that opportunity. From Clifton he went to Wellcamp and started his CPL training with the Airline Academy of Australia and gained his CPL in 2015.

He moved to the Gold Coast and completed his Flight Instructor Rating and landed a job with Air Gold Coast to be a flight instructor in 2016. He worked there for 7.5 years and gained his MECIR along with many training approvals. In 2020 he undertook his C525 Jet Type Rating and became Captain on the company's jet providing air transport flights Australia wide. Logan has 5300 flying hours, became Deputy Head of Flying Operations and holds a Grade 1 Instructor Rating with Multi- Engine, Instrument and Flight Instructor Rating training approvals as well as becoming a flight examiner that has testing approvals for CPL, PPL, NVFR, MEA and IFR.

He has now left Australia to fly for Vista America. A private company and will be based in Austin Texas. He is currently doing various courses to convert his license and get a type rating on the C560 Citation Excel.

All this because Lone Eagle gave him the start he needed. Logan enjoyed his time at Lone Eagle and the members there always gave him encouragement so thank you!

Kind regards,

Sheryl Norris.