Winging It, Redbird’s Popular Online Show Culminates at AirVenture

The ten-part show highlighting unique corners of aviation training arrives at AirVenture and invites pilots to join in the experience.

Winging It, Redbird’s ten-part online aviation video series, will culminate this week at AirVenture Oshkosh. The Winging It team, including host Brittney Miculka, will be filming the final two episodes of the series and inviting attendees to join in on the experience at the Redbird exhibit space and at the EAA Pilot Proficiency Center.

Winging It sent Brittney Miculka on the road to visit top flight schools and learn from top instructors where she shared her experiences with viewers to promote pilot proficiency. Brittney’s journey took her to Massachusetts for an upset recovery course with Michael Goulian, to Denver for a lesson on mountain flying, to Cleveland to learn what it takes to be a medevac nurse, and to California to sharpen her skills on emergency procedures, among others. In the four months since Winging It debuted at Sun n’ Fun, Brittney has visited flight schools, high schools, universities, and sim centers and shared a new experience at each location.

For episode nine, “Keep ‘Em Flying!”, Brittney gets to know a historic warbird as she arrives in Oshkosh with the Commemorative Air Force in The Yellow Rose, a 1943 B-25 Bomber. The final episode of the ten-part series culminates at the newly expanded EAA Pilot Proficiency Center. After a four month journey flying in the left seat and receiving training, Brittney will now assume the role of flight instructor to share what she has learned. She has invited private pilot and YouTube sensation, Steve Thorne, better known as Flight Chops, to The Pilot Proficiency Center to fly a variety of simulator training scenarios inspired by her journey. Flight Chops won’t be the only pilot flying these scenarios; attendees of AirVenture can join in the experience and try their hand at 32 scenarios, including the nine inspired by Winging It.

“Seeking out these unique training experiences to highlight pilot proficiency has been an amazing adventure. Winging It showed my personal ‘Road to Oshkosh’ and I hope this last episode encourages pilots to consider the EAA Pilot Proficiency Center as an annual stop on their ‘flight plan’ for sustained proficiency,” says Miculka. “Winging It is a great showcase of the effective simulation training that a pilot can find back home at their local flight school.”

Redbird’s exhibit space (Main Display 304), located next to the Pilot Proficiency Center will highlight stops along the Winging It journey. A focal point of the display is The Ohio State University’s flight team Cessna 150 which Brittney flew while trying out for 9 different events in just two days. That episode and all others can be viewed at www.wingingit.show. Brittney will be available at the Redbird exhibit every day to answer questions and share information about the places and schools she visited.