The Jacksonville University Aviation program is marking 40 years, and one student is taking her passion to new heights.
JU senior Savannah Panting is from Anchorage, Alaska, and her love for flying started at an early age with her dad.
According to Jacksonville University, the percentage of women airline pilots globally is only 4% to 6% but growing. About 20% of JU’s Aviation Program students are female. “Right now, our students are flying airplanes just about every day,” said Capt. Matt Tuohy, director of the school of aviation and military sciences. “We took in the largest class ever this past, this semester, and all of them started flying their first semester.”Capt. Tuohy said the experimental learning they provide gives students the best way to learn how to fly an airplane.
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