Jason Schappert

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Jason Schappert is an American pilot and entrepreneur. Schappert is a CFII and ATP rated pilot, founder of MzeroA.com, and author of eight aviation flight training books. Schappert was named AOPA's Top Collegiate Flight Instructor in 2008, Outstanding Flight Instructor of 2014 and 2015, has amassed over 8000 hours of in-flight instruction since learning how to fly, and produces MzeroA.com's Online Ground School.

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Early life

Schappert began flying at age 12, and had his first solo flight at 16. He subsequently became a flight instructor, and earned the ratings up to ATP, including private pilot certificate, instrument rating, and Commercial Pilot Certificate. Schappert worked as a banner towing pilot and a traffic pilot in Jacksonville, Florida prior to starting MzeroA.com. Schappert currently flies a Cessna 172 and owns another Cessna 152.

In 2007, Schappert, as an eighteen year old aviation student at Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts, saved a drowning man from the icy water of Long Pond. He received a Carnegie Medal and was written into the congressional record. He was named National Intercollegiate Flying Association (NIFA) Top Collegiate Flight Instructor in 2008 and 2012. In 2009, he created a program called Future Pilots Flight Academy for aviation-minded youth in conjunction with the Discovery Science Center.

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Career

In 2010, Schappert, teamed with Swiss flyer Vincent Lambercy, flew a Cessna 150 on a round-trip Flight Across America from Daytona Beach, Florida to Catalina Island, California and back. Funds raised from the trip were used to promote general aviation.

Schappert and his team flew around the U.S. in 2014 on the Good Pilot Tour, one of their many stops was at the Southeast Aviation Expo.

He was named an AOPA Regional Outstanding Flight Instructor of the year in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017.

His company, MzeroA, was named one of Grow Florida's '2017 Florida Companies to Watch Honorees' MzeroA.com was named in the Inc. 500's 2017 top growing private companies as #230.

Schappert produced the Flying Again film featuring rusty pilots who have not flown for two to thirty years. This was then featured on the TV series The Aviators.

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Bibliography

• Pass Your Private Pilot Checkride 2.0 (ISBN 978-1456310103) (2010)
• Pass Your Instrument Pilot Checkride (ISBN 978-1456328719) (2011)
• Aviation Acronyms (Pilots Recipe for Success Series) (ISBN 978-1460974865) (2011)
• The FAR/AIM in Plain English (ISBN 978-1479118342) (2012)
• Inflight Emergencies (ISBN 978-0615687858) (2012)
• The Airplane Flying Handbook (ISBN 978-0615628455) (2012)
• Pilots Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge (ISBN 978-0615623184) (2012)
• The Secret to Perfect Landings (ISBN 978-0615841069) (2013)
• The Private Pilot Blueprint: A Roadmap To Your Private Pilot Certificate (ISBN 978-0692231104) (2014)

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Filmography

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References

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External links

• Flying Across America
• MzeroA.com Because A Good Pilot Is Always Learning
• MZero Aviation: A new kind of online ground school
• Kickstarter Project

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