Dr. Amy Hoover started flying in the Idaho back country in the
early 1980's while working as a geologist and white water guide on the Middle Fork and Main Salmon Rivers.
In 1992, Amy landed a job as a back country air taxi pilot and in 1993 began teaching mountain flying in the back
country. In 1996 Amy collaborated with two other back country flight instructors to form McCall Mountain/Canyon
Flying Seminars. For the next several years Amy developed the training curriculum and authored Mountain and Canyon Flying
before selling the company in 2001.
Amy then spent five years as director
of the Flight Program at Mt. Hood Community College, and in 2003 joined the flight technology faculty at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington. Amy still keeps her hand in flying the Idaho backcountry.
She now has time to enjoy exploring and flying in other mountain areas of the west, including the Rocky Mountains
of British Columbia and Colorado as well as canyon country in Utah and Arizona, and rugged northern Cascades in
Washington.
