AuburnTigers.com
AUBURN, Ala. - On Saturdays, Ian Shannon wants hang time.
The rest of the week, Auburn’s punter seeks flight time.
Shannon, one of three professional flight majors on the football team, earned his Private Pilot Certificate last year.
“I have the ability to fly during visual flight rules,” says Shannon, a sophomore from Marietta, Ga. “During clear days, I’m allowed to fly, whoever, wherever.”
Friday morning at 7:30, Shannon flew a Cessna 172, without an instructor, from the Auburn-Opelika Robert G. Pitts Airport to Macon County and back, logging another hour in the cockpit.