Amy Wilder is a private pilot with more than two decades of experience as a writer and editor in a career spanning journalism, marketing, and communications. 
She has worked in aviation journalism since 2023, combining a lifelong passion for flight and a love of the aviation community with a penchant for storytelling. As a licensed pilot, she brings firsthand insight to the stories she covers, lending an authentic, on-the-ground perspective to industry coverage.
She holds a Master of Arts in Eastern Classics and a Master of Arts in Liberal Arts, both from St. John&#039;s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico, along with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Culture.

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Aircraft sales, training, and management provider Aerocor of Henderson, Nevada, is now offering dry-lease access to Beechcraft Premier and Eclipse 500 twinjets for initial and recurrent flight training.&nbsp;The training program targets owner-pilots whose aircraft are in maintenance and need to stay current without a gap in training, and prospective buyers who want to train or to complete one or two instructional flights through Aerocor’s Aircraft Experience Program before taking ownership.
“An aircraft in maintenance or a purchase still in progress shouldn’t delay training,” said Aerocor director of flight training Jens Personius. “Now Premier and Eclipse 500 pilots have a path to stay current or get trained before they own, without waiting on their own aircraft.”
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