After flying a Cessna 172 Skyhawk around a portion of Melbourne on April 13, Mountain View native Jacob Harness became the first Ozarka College aviation-program student to complete a solo flight.
“It feels kind of cool. I’m the first one,” the 19-year-old freshman said. “It’s kind of neat being the first one ever to do something.”
Before enrolling in Ozarka College’s Associate of Science in professional pilot-aviation degree program, which began in August 2015, Harness took a few flight classes with a local instructor in his hometown of Mountain View, earning Harness enough credits to get a head start in the program.
“I got enough hours that gave me credit for the first portion, so I could start in Stage 2,” he said.
