Jason Schappert


Jason Schappert is an American pilot and entrepreneur. Schappert is a CFII and ATP rated pilot, founder of MzeroA.com, and author of eight aviation flight training books. Schappert was named AOPA's Top Collegiate Flight Instructor in 2008, Outstanding Flight Instructor of 2014 and 2015, has amassed over 8000 hours of in-flight instruction since learning how to fly, and produces MzeroA.com's Online Ground School.

Early life

In 2007, Schappert, as an eighteen year old aviation student at Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts, saved a drowning man from the icy water of Long Pond. He received a Carnegie Medal and was written into the congressional record. He was named National Intercollegiate Flying Association Top Collegiate Flight Instructor in 2008 and 2012. In 2009, he created a program called Future Pilots Flight Academy for aviation-minded youth in conjunction with the Discovery Science Center.

Career

In 2010, Schappert, teamed with Swiss flyer Vincent Lambercy, flew a Cessna 150 on a round-trip Flight Across America from Daytona Beach, Florida to Catalina Island, California and back. Funds raised from the trip were used to promote general aviation.
Schappert and his team flew around the U.S. in 2014 on the Good Pilot Tour, one of their many stops was at the Southeast Aviation Expo.
He was named an AOPA Regional Outstanding Flight Instructor of the year in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017.
His company, MzeroA, was named one of Grow Florida's '2017 Florida Companies to Watch Honorees'. MzeroA.com was named in the Inc. 500's 2017 top growing private companies as #230.
Schappert produced the Flying Again film featuring rusty pilots who have not flown for two to thirty years. This was then featured on the TV series The Aviators.

Filmography