Marshall University takes a step toward training new helicopter pilots

Students at the Marshall University Bill Noe Flight School are now able to learn to how fly helicopters. The flight school celebrated the arrival of the program’s first-ever helicopter at West Virginia International Yeager airport Monday afternoon. The event showcased the new H-125 single engine helicopter along with a new virtual reality simulator to teach students how to fly the aircraft. Nancy Ritter, chief of aviation operations at Marshall University, told Eyewitness News there is a shortage of helicopter pilots not only in West Virginia, but across the U.S.