Wednesday, April 19, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
LEWIS: Program gets
high school students
licensed
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physician, they must pass
the FAA written exam and
an oral exam, and they must
pass a check flight with an
FAA examiner. Lewis plans
to take his oral exam and
check flight this summer.
“My goal is to earn my
private certificate before I
leave for college in fall,” said
Lewis.
Lewis has been accepted
and is committed to attend-
ing the Colorado School of
Mines to study mechanical
engineering in fall.
“Mines is ranked the num-
ber one engineering school in
the country, and admission
is extremely competitive. I
think having flight training
on my résumé helped me get
into Mines. It demonstrates I
have perseverance to achieve
long-term goals, and that’s
what the top colleges are
looking for,” he said.
Currently in its fourth
year, the Flight Science class
has become one of the most
popular courses at SHS.
With two full classes this
year, the goal of the Sisters
High School Flight Science
program is to provide an
integrated aviation offering
that also enables students to
reach a real-world goal of
earning their private pilot
license while in high school.
Mastering this material
requires both academic study
and actual flight experience.
While the academic
ground school curriculum is
free to students at SHS, flight
instruction costs are not cov-
ered by the school. Lewis and
other Flight Science students
have applied for scholarships
and grants to help pay for the
cost of flight instruction.
Outlaw Aviation was
started three years ago by
Benny and Julie Benson, to
assist SHS students in paying
for their flight training. The
Bensons, who also own the
Sisters Airport, purchased the
Cessna 172 as a trainer air-
craft, and offer the students
a discounted rate for flight
time. In addition, the Bensons
provide a matching schol-
arship fund. For all funds a
student brings to their flight
training, whether it’s from
other scholarships such as
The Roundhouse Foundation
or AOPA, or from family
contributions, the Bensons
match those funds.
Lewis has been awarded
several scholarships through
The Roundhouse Foundation,
and those funds were matched
by the Bensons through a
credit with Outlaw Aviation.
“Their generosity is
incredible,” said Robin Lewis
Kane, Sam’s mother. “Sam
has learned to fly at virtually
no expense to us!”
Lewis and his family
moved to Sisters two years
ago from California.
“Sam has had an interest
in flying from a young age,
so when we learned about
the flight program here in
Sisters, that the students actu-
ally get to fly, the decision to
move here was an easy one,”
said Robin. “There are other
aviation programs at the high
school level, but they don’t
have a way for students to get
flight time in a real airplane.
We are lucky Sam was able
to participate in this unique
opportunity.”
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Campers may still
establish themselves in
the area in violation of
the closure, Nelson-Dean
acknowledged, but hav-
ing the closure in place will
make the rules easier to
enforce.
Nelson-Dean said that
day-users of the forest, such
as hikers, have expressed
fear about going into the
area. She said that, after
the closure, “we hope that
day use will increase in that
area.”
Asked whether the clo-
sure will simply move the
problem to another area of
the forest, Nelson-Dean said,
“I don’t have a real good
answer to that question.”
She said that the prox-
imity to Sisters and the
established nature of the
camping area among the
homeless population has
made the area in question
particularly attractive to
long-term illegal campers.
The two-year closure will
give the Forest Service time
to evaluate impacts there
and in other areas of the
forest.
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