An on-line course entitled “Air Freight Web-based Training Lesson,” which trains students in aerial port air freight operations, has won a Gold Award in the 2006 Brandon Hall Excellence in E-Learning Awards competition in Denver, Colo. The Air Mobility Warfare Center’s Mobility Operations School at Ft. Dix, N.J., designed it in partnership with online contractor TraCorp Inc. It’s designed for use with personal data assistants (PDAs) to help deployed transportation airmen maintain their training requirements—and ultimately to enable them to complete college-level courses, as well.
The Air Force Academy operates the largest glider program in the U.S., with more than 15,000 flights every year—almost entirely led and managed by the youngest instructor pilots in the Air Force. The enterprise is poised to get even busier as USAFA leaders drive toward their ambitious objective: to get…