College students have been emailing me plaintively for months, but I couldn’t decide if I was going to repeat my summer aviation intership for 2009. I have decided that I am going to accept a summer intern and teach him or her how to fly. The internship work will be mostly videography and video editing, so if you know someone who is skilled at communicating with video and wants to learn to fly, please direct him or her to the aviation summer internship 2009 page.
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Wow this sounds like an incredible opportunity.
I find it curious that you list an ideal weight requirement but not a vision requirement in your ideal candidate. Is someone who sees 20/20 corrected out of one eye, and 20/1000 out of the other one acceptable? Said condition hasn’t impaired driving or video editing skills any, and I believe there is an FAA monocular pilot exception similar to the color blind pilot exception, right?
Suddenly I wish I was a video guru. I’m a CS student thinking of doing something with helicopters or other aviation once I graduate…
I think of myself as a quick learner though, so in the unlikely event that you are not swamped with expert applicants, maybe you would consider me? =)
Anonymous: I don’t publish medical standards because the FAA does this already and your interpretation is likely to be as good as mine. In any case, you don’t need to meet the Third Class Medical standards in order to fly with an instructor. You need a medical to serve as a required crewmember.
Brian: The current videos were produced by an engineering undergraduate with little prior experience. His mastery of Adobe Premiere is very impressive after just a few days.
Your heart has to really be into it to go from 7am to 7pm for 3 months. It’s probably different now, but in the old days most internships were 9-5 jobs at an HP.
Calif: A typical airline job starts with a wake-up call at 4:45 am in a hotel in Baltimore. You might find yourself done with work at 8:30 pm at JFK and then have to find your way back home to a crash pad (2BR apartment shared with 12 other airline employees) or to your parents’ house in Michigan. Someone who can’t handle working 7-7 should steer well clear of aviation (maybe go into government and work 1 hour/day!).
Why UVU? Do you teach there or something? Either way, I give you a lot of credit for possibly doing a Four Year Internship. For the right kid it’s a great idea. Very few people seem to do anything that requires time and effort with no expectation if monetary gain.
J.
Oh, and it’s now Utah Valley University, officially.
Why UVU? As far as I know it is the only school offering an Internet-based aviation degree and the price is quite reasonable (remember that I’m paying the tuition; I can’t afford Harvard!).
As a fellow pilot and CFI I know the amount of time that’s involved in teaching someone how to fly and I must say that what you’re doing here is quite a commendable thing. I could only wish that I had the resources available to teach everyone I know the joys of flight.
While I know nothing about videography, I feel I can truly say that the intern is coming away with a golden ticket in this situation.
I realize this post in pointless in your search for an intern, but I really wanted to put my two cents in. I honestly think what you’re doing is an awesome thing. I also wish you good luck with your new charter airline, perhaps one day I could apply to Hanscom Charter…