{"id":11754,"date":"2019-02-01T16:49:24","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T16:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/?p=11754"},"modified":"2019-02-01T16:54:29","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T16:54:29","slug":"doav-partners-with-youth-academy-for-aviation-career-exploration-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/virginia\/doav-partners-with-youth-academy-for-aviation-career-exploration-day\/%20","title":{"rendered":"DOAV Partners with Youth Academy for Aviation Career Exploration Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> The Virginia Department of Aviation (DOAV) reported that it was an honor to have the Upsilon Nu Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Inc. Youth Academy at the DOAV hangar on Saturday, January 26th for the Aviation Career Exploration Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"200\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gov.-Northam-group-shot-taken-at-Aviation-Exploration-Career-Day-at-DOAV-hangar-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"11758\" data-link=\"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?attachment_id=11758\" class=\"wp-image-11758\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gov.-Northam-group-shot-taken-at-Aviation-Exploration-Career-Day-at-DOAV-hangar-3.jpg 320w, https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gov.-Northam-group-shot-taken-at-Aviation-Exploration-Career-Day-at-DOAV-hangar-3-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><figcaption>Governor Ralph Northam posed with the group in front of the agency&#8217;s King Air. Photo by Kim Wells<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The students and chaperones were able to participate in aviation lesson plans, watch videos that explained aviation history and tour the different education stations set up in the hangar by the DOAV staff. They also had the chance to interact with Governor Ralph Northam and First Lady of Virginia Pamela Northam who explained the importance of choosing a career you love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Betty Wilson, Public Relations Manager, provided three\ndifferent hands-on science lessons about air flow and showed the group how to\nuse an aeronautical chart for flight planning. Aviation Technicians, Jeff\nTaylor and Greg Gilmour, showed the students various tools and parts of the\naircraft so they could better understand how everything works together. They\nalso talked about safety while allowing the students to get a hands-on lesson\nabout maintaining the aircraft. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kim Wells, Public Relations Specialist took photos during\nthe event, provided the guests with a goody bag and also provided educational\nassistance. Alton Jordon, an Engineer who has his private pilot\u2019s license,\ndemonstrated how drones can be used and explained his engineering role with the\nairports.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Andrew Crider, Customer Relations Specialist, and also a\nprivate pilot, explained how to preflight aircraft and showed them how flight\ncontrols work. DOAV Pilot, Greg Dextor spoke about aviation career and airspace\nand, assisted by Pilot Claiborne Craig, gave the guests a tour of the agency\u2019s\nairplanes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Virginia National Guard landed their Sikorsky UH-60\nBlack Hawk on the ramp and allowed everyone to get inside and learn about\nmilitary aviation. Richmond International Airport (RIC) Fire came by with their\nfiretrucks and provided a water demonstration. In addition to the outdoor\nactivities, RIC police brought over a patrol car. Attendees enjoyed touring the\nvehicles learning about various careers and how they interact with aviation. DOAV\nhopes to plan more events like this in the future. To see more photos visit the\nDOAV Facebook page (@VirginiaDOAV).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Virginia Department of Aviation (DOAV) reported that it was an honor to have the Upsilon Nu Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Inc. Youth Academy at the DOAV hangar on Saturday, January 26th for the Aviation Career Exploration Day. The students and chaperones were able to participate in aviation lesson plans, watch videos that explained [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-education","category-virginia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11754"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11762,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11754\/revisions\/11762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}