Blake Kennedy sits at the controls and slowly guides a Cessna toward the landing strip. The flight student hears an instructor tell him to move left. Then he is instructed to slow down. Yet, Brandon is not in a cockpit, and he is not paying for an instructor.
The student at Rex Air in Naples is working on flying skills using Take Flight Interactive. It’s an innovative, immersive, A1-based training system co-owned by Naples resident Glenn Kowak, who says it is very different from any other type of flying simulator. That’s because it uses AI and data analytics to create fully interactive training with real-time instruction that specifically addresses a student pilot’s moment-by-moment performance and gives immediate feedback and analysis.
The program is being used by the U.S. Navy and Liberty University and was recently added at Purdue University, Purdue Global and in some high schools in Sebring, Florida and Indiana. The Young Eagles program in Fort Myers is also using it…