Carol Carpenter

Carol Carpenter, co author of : Sport Pilot Airplane: A Complete Guide and A Professional Approach to Ultralights, is a Sport Pilot instructor, an FAA Ground Instructor with an Advance Rating, a Repairman with a Maintenance Rating, an ultralight instructor, an FAA private pilot, an FAA Fasst Team Representative, and she holds a California teaching credential. Since the Sport Pilot Rule was implemented in September of 2004, Carol and her husband, Brian Carpenter, owners of Rainbow Aviation Services, a full service FBO located in Corning California, have been on the cutting edge. Today, they offer completed sport pilot services for airplane and a variety of services for weight shift and powered parachute aircraft as well Carol and Brian have applied for and received acceptance of the first light Sport Repairman Maintenance course in the country. During the first three weeks of March 2006, Carol and Brian conducted the first course at their facility in Corning, California. All sixteen pilots who attended the 120-hour airplane course received a repairman certificate. Carol and Brian now offer both the weight shift and powered parachute modules as well. .