Theresa C. Whiting

Qualifications

I am a Gold Seal Flight Instructor with over 2,500 hours of logged flight time. 

I have been a flight instructor at Solo Aviation, Inc. in Ann Arbor since December 2006.  Prior to that, I trained students in Marshall, Michigan and the surrounding areas for approximately two years.  I am a Commercial Single and Multiengine pilot, and a Certified Flight Instructor for Airplane, Instrument, and Multiengine.  I have taught numerous ground schools, and I am qualified as a Commercial Glider Pilot.

For two years, I was a member of the Kellogg Field Senior Squadron of the Civil Air Patrol.  Currently, I am a member of the Yankee Ladies, a group that is forming a Southeast Michigan chapter of Women in Aviation, International.

Background

I graduated Magna Cum Laude from the College of Aviation at Western Michigan University in 2003 with a degree in Aviation Flight Science and a minor in Business Management.  While there, I received the Delta Air Lines Undergraduate Diversity Scholarship, the WMU Board of Trustees Scholarship, and the WMU Cultural Diversity Recognition Award.
 

Highlights

In December, 2006, I flew a Cessna 172 solo from Marshall, Michigan to Fresno, California.  The trip took 25.8 hours and covered 2141 nautical miles.  For a slide show of the flight, click here.  (PDF format - 2 megabytes)

In September, 2007, my student Otto Sorg won a Cessna 172 from the 2007 Sporty's Pilot Shop Sweepstakes.  The plane was worth approximately $230,000!  We flew to Sporty's to pick it up, and Otto has been enjoying it ever since.  Click here to see pictures of the delivery and here for a newspaper article.   You can now buy a share in the airplane!

In August, 2008, a student and I flew over Cedar Point, an amusement park.  It looked great from the air!  The student's dad wrote about the flight on the Saline Michigan Real Estate web site.