{"id":13637,"date":"2019-09-02T18:49:30","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T18:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/?p=13637"},"modified":"2019-09-02T18:49:32","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T18:49:32","slug":"flight-sims-big-attraction-for-colorados-emily-warner-field-museum-visitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/colorado\/flight-sims-big-attraction-for-colorados-emily-warner-field-museum-visitors\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Flight Sims Big Attraction for Colorado\u2019s Emily Warner Field Museum Visitors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Photos and Story by Penny Rafferty Hamilton<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a long-time aviation educator sometimes we forget how\nimportant tactile and experiential experiences are to sharing the joy of\naviation. Taking used aviation magazines to a pre-school and asking the eager\nchildren to pick out colors from all the airplane pictures. Even cutting\nairplane photos out and printing their own name on the airplane they picked\nleaves an impression on them. Kindergarten students often enjoy making\ntongue-blade airplanes decorated with glue and glitter. At our Emily Warner\nField Aviation Museum, we have a selfie-dress up station with costumes for\nfuture flight attendants and pilots. Our wannabe aviation mechanics can use our\nscrew gun to take apart a matching airplane which keeps us constantly inserting\nnew batteries!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1090244edit.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13639\" width=\"265\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1090244edit.jpg 600w, https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1090244edit-300x286.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 265px) 100vw, 265px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently, our aviation museum volunteers held another\nfree, family-friendly community open house all day on a Friday because our\nlocal school system is 4-day, Monday to Thursday. The Grand County Historical\nAssociation Emily Warner Field Aviation Museum, located in the historic former\nRocky Mountain Airways airline terminal on Granby\/Grand County Airport,\nintroduced the Flight Simulator experience to anyone interested in trying their\nhands on the yoke of the donated Fantasy of Flight Foundation sims, under the\nwatchful eyes of volunteer, Aaron Skinner, whose day job is airline pilot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Literally, nine-year old wannabe pilots to age 69,\nenjoyed the experience of flying from their home town airport. Aaron programmed\nthe simulators to take off from GNB. You could fly over the Granby cemetery.\nSee Lake Granby. You could land and taxi right to the former airline terminal.\nBecause you can enjoy the experience with friends, flight sims are an excellent\ntool to focus young minds on aviation opportunities. Parents were delighted to\nshare the experience too taking the own opportunity to be PIC. They even got to\npick the color they wanted \u201ctheir\u201d plane to be. One mother emailed me after the\n\u201cflights,\u201d that her boys kept talking about the experience more than a trip to\nthe Denver amusement park because there they were passive on the thrilling\namusement rides. But, with the flight simulator experience, they were able to\nfly and feel fully involved in only a few minutes. The actual \u201chands-on\u201d really\nmade their \u201cflights\u201d personal, especially flying over their own town to see\nfamiliar landmarks and places they know so well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, the whole atmosphere of our aviation museum is\n\u201ccome on in and have some fun with us.\u201d Many airports are gated and closed off\nto the general public because of today\u2019s security requirements. Located on\ntheir community airport for them to walk, bike, drive or fly-in, gives the\nEmily Warner Field Aviation Museum volunteers the unique opportunity and\nmission to share the \u201cGospel of Aviation\u201d with young and older visitors. Learn\nmore at www.GrandCountyHistory.org One idea, even commercial airports should\nconsider, if they have not already done so, is to create an interactive\naviation education room for families and passengers to introduce aviation to\nthe general public before their flight. Interactive kiosk about aviation\nhistory, aviation career opportunities, airport, and even local aviation\nheroes\/pioneers could be located throughout the terminal. After all, these\npassengers are \u201ccaptive\u201d for a while and most love technology.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photos and Story by Penny Rafferty Hamilton As a long-time aviation educator sometimes we forget how important tactile and experiential experiences are to sharing the joy of aviation. Taking used aviation magazines to a pre-school and asking the eager children to pick out colors from all the airplane pictures. Even cutting airplane photos out and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13638,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aviation-education","category-colorado"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1090249edit.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13637","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=13637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13640,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13637\/revisions\/13640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}