Creating interest early: Students learn to fly planes

MINOT, N.D. (KXNET) — Currently, there is a shortage of pilots and other aviation workers in our country. But what programs are available for people to learn to fly? Especially young people? 'No one's learning anything unless you're having fun,' said Meric Murphy, the aviation instructor at Minot High School. And the students in Meric Murphy's aviation technology classes are having fun, while also learning how to fly planes. 'What we're learning covers anything from advanced aerial maneuvers to IFR flight, which is what we're doing currently where the aircraft are only going off of their instruments, which IFR stands for instrument flight rating, where they are unable to see outside the plane and are only going based off of what their plane can tell them and what the air traffic controller can tell them,' said Noah Miller, a senior in the Aviation II class.