Podcast: SOLS Resource Offers Useful Tools for Small Operators

April 3, 2023

NBAA’s Small Operator Learning Series (SOLS) is a valuable online resource featuring an expanding number of educational modules geared toward meeting the informational needs of single pilots and small flight departments. Subjects addressed in SOLS include securing letters of authorization, operational safety, budgeting, insurance and some of the other basics of managing a small flight department, notes Dylan Miller, a captain for a small operator. “You don’t have to reinvent the wheel. Let us share our knowledge with you.”

In this episode of NBAA’s “Flight Plan,” host Rob Finfrock speaks with:
  • Dylan Miller, lead captain for a small flight operation
  • Joe Samudovsky, co-chair of the NBAA Small Flight Department Subcommittee of the NBAA Domestic Operations Committee
  • Noah Yarborough, NBAA Operations Manager

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