UND fleet update

[Vegas_Sioux]

UND will be cycling out the Cessnas and going back to Piper. 

New Piper contract

[Milford torgerson]

Holy schmoligans!  I thought we were dealing with a budget deficate requiring cuts.  Where is this moolah coming from?

[NoiseInsideMyHead]

45 minutes ago, Milford torgerson said:

Holy schmoligans!  I thought we were dealing with a budget deficate requiring cuts.  Where is this moolah coming from?

Mr. Underhill's American Express card...want the number?

[Vegas_Sioux]

Remember it's the UND aerospace foundation that purchases and owns the planes. 

[Milford torgerson]

7 minutes ago, Vegas_Sioux said:

Remember it's the UND aerospace foundation that purchases and owns the planes. 

Guess I'm not really on top of this stuff.  Who funds the foundation?

[Vegas_Sioux]

Donations, foreign student training contracts. Specific fees to aerospace students for fleet refreshing. 

[BigGreyAnt41]

As far as I understand, UND aerospace is always buying new planes and rotating out old ones.  The only reason this is news is because they're moving to a different vender and it's a big contract.

Here's an AOPA article about it: http://www.aopa.org/News-and-Video/All-News/2016/April/06/Piper-scores-big-with-UND-training-contract

It mentions that Piper has agreed to help market the aviation programs and provider scholarships.  I'm personally more of a Cessna guy, but it's good to see Piper actively investing in the future of commercial and general aviation.

[Milford torgerson]

1 minute ago, Vegas_Sioux said:

Donations, foreign student training contracts. Specific fees to aerospace students for fleet refreshing. 

I see, it must cost a bunch to enroll in this program then.

[WiSioux]

10 minutes ago, Milford torgerson said:

I see, it must cost a bunch to enroll in this program then.

Do they still have he laptop fee? Ha

[siouxforeverbaby]

18 hours ago, Milford torgerson said:

I see, it must cost a bunch to enroll in this program then.

http://media.aero.und.edu/avit.und.edu/documents/ProjectedProgramCostsFY16.pdf?v=2016-01-11#zoom=100

http://media.aero.und.edu/avit.und.edu/documents/IndividualFlightCourseCostsFY16.pdf?v=2016-01-11#zoom=100

[Parkers Pros]

A little surprised that since we have a Cirrus plant in town they wouldn't go that way. I drive past it every day.

[Vegas_Sioux]

On 4/9/2016 at 5:18 PM, Parkers Pros said:

A little surprised that since we have a Cirrus plant in town they wouldn't go that way. I drive past it every day.

We had cirrus aircraft can't handle intensive student training, fine to buy if your flying club wants one but multiple student training activities in the cold did not hold up, so we sold them to Western Michigan.