Ann McLoughlin Gateway Flight Training Flight Spring 2024

The Aero Experience celebrates Midwest Aviation with our "FI on the Fly" series to honor the unsung heroes of the aviation industry - the Certified Flight Instructors training the next generation of pilots at flight schools large and small across the region. CFIs are in high demand, and new instructors are gaining flight hours at a rate the guarantees their rapid progression to the corporate, charter or airline crew positions to which many aspire. Rather than generalize about the CFI/CFII/MEI roles, we will start from the individual and find out what makes a great CFI through their particular contribution.
In this edition, we feature CFII Ann McLoughlin from Gateway Flight Training based at Creve Coeur Airport. She grew up around aviation and exudes a natural enthusiasm for sharing her love of flight with others around her. McLoughlin's father is a commercial airline pilot and owner of multiple general aviation aircraft over the years, the most recent is a Beech Sundowner. She has her seaplane rating, a tribute to one of her childhood experiences flying in a floatplane with family friends in Alaska, and enjoys aerobatic flying in a Decathlon. McLoughlin brings a wide range of flying skills to compliment the staff instructors and growing fleet at Gateway Flight Training.

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Excellent video! Ann is a very impressive CFII. Enjoyed hearing her story. I operate out of 1H0 as well and see 2203T in the pattern occasionally. Nice seeing the familiar sites.

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I like steam gauges. I am a student pilot. I flew a glass flight deck one time and It was hard for me.