Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Christmas Fly-out Event

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Illinois Aviation Academy
Come join us as we celebrate the holidays with a mini-flying contest and party at our hangar!

Features
  • 3 Airport stops
  • 2 Shotgun starts - your choice between 2 alternate routes:
Northern Route: DPA-RAC-EFT-DPA

Southern Route: DPA-VYS-TIP-DPA

Prizes, food, fun!
So sign up and reserve your aircraft today!

Call: 630-513-2224

E-mail: justinek@illinoisaviation.com

Our mailing address is:
Illinois Aviation Academy, Inc. 32W751 Tower Road West Chicago, IL 60185.
Phone:630-513-2224. Fax:630-513-8704.
www.illinoisaviation.com
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Thursday, September 9, 2010

IAA Flying club fly-out to Lake Lawn Resort 08/22/ 2010.


As many of you know we had our very first coordinated fly-out activity on August 22nd 2010 to Lake Lawn Lodge and Resort in Wisconsin. The overall turn out for the fly-out was way beyond our humble expectations and we would like to thank all of you for taking the time to come hang-out aviation style. We all had a great time, the Lake Lawn staff were excellent and very courteous, from shuttle service that made repeated runs until everyone was settled for brunch; to the brunch itself, which was a true ‘all you can eat’ fest with seafood, pasta, breakfast goodies, carving, omelet and dessert stations, and an endless coffee supply; first class service all the way.

Starting off was the coordinated lift off from IAA and arrival to lake lawn. This in and of itself was entertainment for the day: to start off, the runway at lake lawn had cracks overgrown with grass, making it invisible from all the greenery until you were right upon it -so Bob wore the traffic control hat and talked everyone in to a safe landing (very professional job too!).However spotting the runway was just the beginning; next came a fleet of birds that camped out in one of the trees and aimed straight for the propellers, on every approach (lots of birds, all apparently blind!); then if you got past this airport security, next came a family of storks (or cranes, we pulled a blagojevich –split-decision), a mom, pop and babe, that couldn’t decide which section of the runway they wanted to be on and as such were running all over the place...luckily we left them all intact (despite their continuous suicide missions).

Suffice to say everyone had their Captain’s hat on that day and with the exception of a few bird losses, made it safely to the parking lot. Once at the lodge, we had breakfast, then ran off in different directions, it was a beautiful day outside and if you’ve never been to Lake Lawn before, it is an absolute must for summer. There were boat rides, water skiing, kayaking, boating races; you name it they had it going.We were at Lake Lawn for about 4 hours and by 12:00noon, the early birds began to head back for IAA. Total trip time: about 1 hr: 15 minutes, (with the exception of the Diamondstar, Cirrus and Aztec), Total turn-out: about 35 people, next stop: to be announced soon!

Justine Kakembo, Editor.

Thursday, April 15, 2010


Illinois FAASTeam Presents
2010 FAASTeam National Safety Stand Down
Saturday, April, 17 2010, 9:00AM
At Illinois Aviation Academy.

Greetings,

The FAASTeam’s National Safety Stand Down launches a major safety and education initiative to improve general aviation safety through interactive knowledge and skill based training, targeting the four areas producing the most aviation accidents: Loss of Control, Surface Safety, Owner Performed Maintenance, and Risk Management.

The Marmion Academy Flying Club in conjunction with Jimmy John's will provide refreshments and food for lunch, (place your orders at registration for timely delivery). We hope that you will continue to support their effort towards promoting and growing their flying club and aviation aspirations.

Registration: click here for the FAA.gov site to register and event details. We do hope you can make it!

Directions: Located at the NW corner of DuPage Airport, turn on Kautz Rd from IL-64 or IL-38 and look for the large yellow hangar at the corner of Tower Rd. and Kautz Rd, in West Chicago.

Monday, January 18, 2010

Annual Party Feedback

Saturday night was our annual company party here at IAA with a few changes. We had the party at a Sports bar in Bartlett, IL (Bannermans Sports Grill) and we opened it up to our clients. Those of you that made it, really made it for us and we are so grateful for the turn-out to support our work and achievements. We had a really good time, the food was great, the drinks flowed and the company rocked !(Bannermans gets an IAA plus for great service, location and atmosphere, definitely a Superbowl contender!)

True to form there were no pictures taken that night as we all wanted to let loose and have a good time. Thanks for all your support IAA aviators, you really make our work a pleasure and our parties fun!