Middle Tennessee State University assistant flight training manager Sean Logan plots his pathway to becoming a pilot and much more in the October 2023 edition of the “Out of the Blue” television magazine program.

An alumnus (Class of 2022, summa cum laude) and graduate assistant, Logan shares about his experiences as a flight instructor operating MTSU’s DA-40 single-engine Diamond Aircraft that have become an Aerospace Departmentprogram mainstay. He touches on his experience as a Civil Air Patrol cadet and how it solidified his choice to attend MTSU.

A native of Moscow, Tennessee, in Fayette County, Logan also shares about the features of the DA-40 with “Out of the Blue” host Andrew Oppmann and then they went for a flight in this special “In the Air with MTSU Aerospace” segment. You can watch it below:

In the Civil Air Patrol with dreams of flying one day, Logan “discovered the MTSU program on an orientation flight. I got to come to the flight school, got to tour, went to lunch at Toot’s (restaurant) and flew back home. For a 12-year-old, it was kind of crazy to fly halfway across Tennessee in the span of an afternoon and kind of planted that seed for the program and wanting to be a pilot.”

Logan, 23, who is pursuing his master’s degree in aviation safety (security management concentration), said when he originally came to MTSU, “all I really thought I wanted to do was come through the program, become an airline pilot and it really wasn’t until I started instructing that I realized all the different possibilities there are.

In addition to Logan’s segment, the entire October “Out of the Blue” highlights aerospace, including the Sept. 21 announcement featuring Gov. Bill Lee and other officials regarding MTSU moving and expanding its entire Flight Operations Center at Shelbyville Airport and a recap with industry partner Southwest Airlines and the Destination225° pilot pathways program.

In addition to Logan’s segment, the entire October “Out of the Blue” highlights aerospace, including the Sept. 21 announcement featuring Gov. Bill Lee and other officials regarding MTSU moving and expanding its entire Flight Operations Center at Shelbyville Airport and a recap with industry partner Southwest Airlines and the Destination225° pilot pathways program.

You can watch “Out of the Blue” anytime online on MTSU’s YouTube channel and on MTSU’s True Blue TV, airing on Murfreesboro cable Channel 9 daily at 6 a.m., 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Central and on Roku, Apple TV and Amazon Fire TV, as well as on NewsChannel5+ at 3:30 p.m. Sundays.

“Out of the Blue also is available as iTunes and Google Play podcasts and on other cable outlets in Middle Tennessee, so check local listings. Enjoy previous editions of “Out of the Blue” here in our archives, too.

Interview segments of the monthly “Out of the Blue” TV show are also released weekly as individual podcasts on Spotify. You can find them at  https://spoti.fi/453hxg3.

— Randy Weiler (Randy.Weiler@mtsu.edu)