Lights burned late at the school building on a Friday night as young people from 14 villages throughout the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta discussed high technology aviation navigational systems and what this meant to them as future aviators. Demantle has big plans he discusses with fellow student Fred Lamont from Pilot Station. Flying offers a lot of opportunities in the village for pilots and ground crew. This unique aviation education program, formed to recruit and train potential commercial pilots from Delta communities, was borne out of operational necessity, according to Yute Air owner Will Johnson. People from Outside don't stay here.
Local people know the weather and the terrain.
They will stay and continue with training and experience. A plethora of rotting moose carcasses are popping out of the snow just as ravenous bears are emerging from their dens. During the winter 600 Kenai Peninsula moose died. I don't want to be an alarmist, but with the number of maulings we've had in Southcentral the last couple of years, people should be reminded. Now that the snow is gone, Spraker advised that people inspect their property.