When he was younger, Kevin Logue was fascinated with airplanes. Anytime he was near an aircraft, a smile would spread across his face. Now in his senior year, he has successfully taken a step toward his dream of soaring high when he earned his pilot’s license earlier this semester.

Logue received his pilot’s license in September, and is currently planning on continuing with his studies of aeronautics after high school to eventually become a commercial airline pilot.

“[I] just got my private pilot’s license; it takes you all the way up to [becoming] an FAA approved flight instructor,” Logue stated, “and then after that I can instruct students and continue building up my hours for the goal of getting hired by an airline.”

Logue’s in-flight training was not too difficult for him; however, it was time consuming. He worked over the summer to complete his training, taking in all of the condensed information during the shortened three month span.

“It took a lot of my time out of the summer,” he said. “I had to study a lot and do a lot of that stuff, but it was worth it in the long run.”

Currently, Logue is working toward attaining a college degree in aeronautics.

“I’m going through Chandler-Gilbert Community College through their degree program and with that it cuts down my hour requirement to get in with the airlines,” Logue said.

The program, designed to prepare students for using their acquired technical knowledge as well as the skills develop to fly aircrafts, is provided by a partnership between Chandler-Gilbert Community College and the University of North Dakota. It will allow him to begin his education in aviation at Chandler-Gilbert Community College and later transfer to the University of North Dakota Aerospace for a four-year degree.

Logue’s ambitions are still growing more and more attainable due to his choice to pursue schooling in his desired line of work before his graduation of high school.