Aviation Club Pilot Teaches Connect2Mason How to Fly

UPDATED 8:53 p.m. 

Looking skyward, with stomachs churning, C2M Executive Editor Kevin Loker and then-Podcast Director Matt Loffman traveled to Warrenton-Fauquier Airport to go flying with George Mason University's future Flying Club.

David Fields, a pilot helping the student organization "get off the ground," took the duo up in his plane last fall, teaching Loker some basics. Fields says the goal of the group is to do the same for students and other Mason community members with an interest in aviation. 

The Aviation Club, which was officially instated as a university student group this spring, has since gathered close to 200 Facebook fans and 50 official members, 29 of whom gathered on Saturday for the club’s first-ever Flight Day.

Broadside recently covered the Aviation Club and the Flight Day in the May 3 issue.

The above video was filmed by Loffman, and edited using archived footage by Student Media's Alicia Thayer.