AOPA 2018 Flight Training Experience Award-winning best CFI Mike Biewenga of Blue Skies Flying Service near Chicago tries his hand at ‘blind flying’ a Redbird Jay flight simulator.

The Best Flight School in the Midwest region honor went to Blue Skies Flying Services and Pilot Shop of Illinois’s Lake in the Hills Airport, where “customers love the friendliness of owner Mike Carzoli and the instructor staff.”

The AOPA’s You Can Fly program has announced the 2017 Flight Training Experience Award winners at the 2017 Redbird Migration at the Experimental Aircraft Association Museum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.