Professional Pilot, February 2018
First airplane ride was in a single engine Beechcraft in the beautiful Colorado foothills with my friend and mentor I was only 17 but every aspect of that afternoon struck me with a force that Id never experienced before I got on the ground found a logbook and a flight instructor When I realized that my instructor was a B17 pilot and my examiner flew F86s the desire to fly was like gasoline on a fire I just had to be part of this Eric Cipcic Comm Multi Inst CFI A P Cirrus SR22 Owner Operator Coyote Aerospace Montoursville PA Grew up on Air Force bases so I was exposed to aviation from the beginning Ive wanted to be a pilot since I could talk Christopher Kirby ATP Helo Embraer ERJ175 Robinson R44 R22 First Officer Envoy Air San Diego CA Knew I wanted to fly as a career from when I was 5 years old While growing up I watched a steady stream of airplanes headed to LAX Los Angeles CA Soloed at age 16 joined the US Army and flew 20 years for the government Like many others I had a lot of great mentors along the way Brian MacInnis ATP Helo CFII Bell JetRanger 206 King Air 300 Instructor FlightSafety Intl Wichita KS As a boy was taken to Europe to see where my dad served in WWII My father was also a magician known by Queen Elizabeth We flew on Icelandic Airlines and the captain allowed us to go up front Wow 10000 dials and switches and I could see forever out front I was hooked for life Don Corbin ATP CFII Citation I Pilot FlightSafety Intl Orlando FL The desire to fly was embedded at my conception I set my goals graduated from the USAF Academy finished flight training and then flew the RF4 Phantom F111 Aardvark A10 Thunderbolt F15 Eagle and F16 Falcon over a 26 year career Im also an ATP CFII have owned 4 aircraft and am still going strong well past 3 4 of a century Life is good and full Harold Watson ATP CFII Cessna C421 President BJAerospace Denton TX I always liked new technology which seems to be natural for pilots As a teenager I built a Santos Dumont Demoiselle Damselfly replica and while trying to make it fly I joined the Brazilian Air Force Now Im having a great time flying the G650 João Bonatto ATP Gulfstream G650 Captain Aero Rio Táxi Aéreo Rio de Janeiro Brazil
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