Ephrata gets airborne
The team about to take off performs flight checks, while the team that just landed lears their gear from a plane at the Civil Air Patrol National Flight Academy Saturday in Ephrata.
CHERYL SCHWEIZER/COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD
Student pilot AJ Silianoff, right, and instructor Karin Hollenbach, left, go over the post-flight checklist during the National Flight Academy sponsored by the Civil Air Patrol.
Mitchell Natale, left, and Mia Mayachar, right, quiz each other on emergency procedures in ground school classes. The two are students at the Civil Air Patrol National Flight Academy at the Ephrata Municipal Airport,
Garrett Johnson checks the status of the planes in the air at the National Flight Academy.
Preflight completedm a student and instructor at the National Flight Academy taxi toward the runway.
EPHRATA — The days start early - breakfast at 5 a.m. — are filled with classes, and in the middle of summer, too. But nobody cares. They get to fly.
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