About Amy

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 fell in love flying to the remote airstrips all around Idaho. In 1993 she began teaching mountain flying for the FAA in the Idaho back country in addition to working as a flight instructor in Boise. In 1996 Amy and two other flight instructors formed 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 while she completed her Ph.D. in Education. In 2003 she joined the faculty at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington where she is now the Aviation Department Chair. Amy still keeps her hand in flying the Idaho backcountry and is available on a limited basis for back country flight instruction in Washington and Idaho. Amy's newest acquisition is her 2009 American Champion Citabria Explorer, which she loves flying around the Idhao back country as well as 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. Amy has given over 1500 hours of back country flight instruction and over 50 professional presentations on mountain and canyon flying to various organizations throughout the united states, including FAA, Idaho Aviation Association, Washington Pilots Association, Oregon Pilot's Association, Columbia Aviation Association, Women in Aviation International, International 99's, State of Washington Dept. of Aviation, and more. He favorite place to fly in Idaho is......(you know she won't give away that secret unless you come and fly!).