Florida Tech Flight Team

That’s a wrap on .aero National SAFECON 2026! The team finished 16th in the Judges Award! Two teammates also achieved individual awards, with Braden Kearney finishing 9th in IFR Sim and Devin Andrade finishing 19th in Power Off Landings! A special thank you to our advisor Karl Blumfelder and coach Dr. Donna Wilt for all their support this year. Congratulations to all our team members for all their hard work this season!

Pictured we have our competitors by event: Team
E-Board
SCAN
Computer Accuracy
Aircraft Recognition
Power Off Landings
Short Field Landings
CRM/LOFT
Ground Trainer
IFR Sim
Pre-Flight
Unlimited Navigation
Message Drop
Aircraft Maintenance

Showing off our power off and short field landing skills for the .aero judges! 🛬

Nav Day!🧭

All smiles as the team competed in message drop for our first day of flight events!

Congratulations to our 2026-2027 E-Board!!! 🎉🎉

Captain - Avery Karasinki
First Officer - Devin Andrade
Safety Officer - Braden Kearney
Treasurer - Ethan Brobst
Secretary - Josh Yedreshteyn

Thank you to everyone who came out and supported our Pie a CFI Fundraiser! 🥧

Your participation helped make yesterday a huge success. Special thanks to Dr. Mehta, Professor Splitt, and all the CFIs who volunteered their time to help out the team!

Pie-A-CFI is back!!!

Come to the Flight Line on Friday, March 13th, and throw a pie at your CFI!

Support the Florida Tech Flight Team and take the opportunity to pie your favorite CFIs, ACIs, check instructors, and more! This event will be at the flight line from 2-7 pm, however keep an eye out for the different time slots that were signed up for!

If you do not see your CFI’s name on the list, they are still able to sign up to participate. We can’t wait to see everyone there!

Donate to the Florida Tech Flight Team Today!

The Florida Tech Flight Team is heading back to NIFA Nationals in Moline, Illinois! To go on this trip, we must raise funds to cover aircraft fees, hotels, airline tickets, and other expenses associated with a trip to a national competition.

Your donation will make an instrumental difference in achieving our goals at nationals! You can find our donation link in our bio.

Congratulations to Gillian and Ian on their recent check ride passes! 🎉

This Friday, our team had the amazing opportunity to tour ! A big thank you to Carly Shukiar and the rest of the Piper team for welcoming us into your factory!