Chief Flight Instructor’s Award

The Chief Flight Instructor’s Award is a national award presented annually to outstanding flight training educators. The recipient is always a flight instructor who has displayed superior professionalism, skill, and dedication.

The award recognizes those who contribute in a positive way to Aviation Solutions’ Flight Instructor Refresher Program, their schools, students, colleagues, the aviation community, and industry at large. The successful recipient receives a complementary Flight Instructor Refresher Course for their next renewal and is selected by the course presenters.

Recipients are those individuals who have displayed:

• Excellent effort in all aspects of the course;

• Significant involvement during the course;

• Outstanding contribution to group exercises;

• A strong desire to learn and improve;

• Superior presentation skills;

• A high level of technical knowledge;

• Dedication to best practices;

• A strong focus on student success, motivation, and engagement; and

• A professional demeanour which reflects positively on flight instructors.

The winner is selected each January from the previous year’s courses. Aviation Solutions is proud to recognize and promote quality flight instruction and professional flight instructors through this award.

Course participants who wish to submit their background information in support of the award may do so through this link.

• 2023 Laurie Mahar

• 2022 Bill Crosby

• 2021 Peter Millar, Jesse Sharpe

• 2020 Lenora Crane, Hilary Harris

• 2019 Scott Chayko

• 2018 Samuel Clement-Coulson

• 2017 Contessa Bishop

• 2016 Kyle Green

• 2015 Melesa Hane

• 2014 Brett Frey

• 2013 Michael Bloss

• 2012 Simon Dennis

• 2011 Eisa Emami

• 2008 Nicholas Smith

• 2007 Neola Doyle

• 2006 Adam Shehata

Recipients