SCHENECTADY — For Anderson Seram, learning to fly was a child’s dream. In real life, there were exams to ace and work to do — there was no pile of money waiting to buy him time in a pilot’s chair.
But his work as commander in the Schenectady High School JROTC impressed the Air Force, and he learned that he could apply for a competitive program to earn his private pilot’s license after his junior year of high school.
“I’d never even touched an airplane,” Seram said, referring to the controls in an airplane cockpit. He’d never even entered a cockpit on a commercial flight…