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Michael, your primary instructor:
Aviation -in a sense- "saved Michael" in High School!
An indifferent student through high-school at best (much to his parents chagrin he was always much closer to flunking than to succeeding) aviation became his prism which over a lifetime provided him with an ever expanding universe, whether it was physics, history, reading, math, or flying itself.
A §61 flight instructor since 1979, he somewhere along the line became a §135 PIC flying bank checks on a Piper Navajo nightly from NYC to Philadelphia, PA to Hartford, CT to Boston, MA and back again, with the occasional passenger flight thrown into the mix. The next steps were Cessna Citations (§135 PIC), along with being a very occasional §91 SIC flying Hawker-600s [ ... so that shows you how old he must be :) ].
He's spent very many years being a §121 Aircraft Dispatcher, Dispatch Instructor, manning an airline's ATC desk, and being being a Dispatch Manager at three different airlines, owned two §65 FAA approved Aircraft Dispatch schools, was an FAA designated Aircraft Dispatch Examiner for another dozen+ years, handled marketing and finance for a large international airline; in the end, he was always enthusiastic about aviation in all its various forms.
He hopes to be successful at sharing his love for aviation -and the entire industry that goes along with it- with you.
Hawker "600" (a "real dinosaur!") - §91 SIC (flying the owner)
Cessna "Citation II" C550 - §135 PIC (flying the "poorest" of the rich)
Piper "Navajo" PA31-350 - §135 (primarily bank checks, occasionally people)
Quite a dated picture of him in the Hawker he flew as a SIC §91 ... (as dated as the plane itself).
Other Instructors:
Kyie:
[Picture above: Kyie's in front of a poster of a Falcon; he has gone in and out of the "§135-world," which has captivated him -metaphorically, physically, and emotionally- over-and-over again; he can't shake its lustrous orbit].
Kyie -a graduate of Dowling College's "B.A. Airport Management Program"- has been successfully working in Aviation since the very early 2000s.
He has occupied positions in the §121 world running the gamut from Front-Line Dispatcher to Manager Dispatch Support for a major American Airline, responsible for keeping the systems and software running for Aircraft Dispatch , Central Load Planning, and more.
On the business aviation §135 side of things he has been responsible for launching fleets of aircraft cumulatively worth in the billions, with their passengers (and Kyie's clients) being part of the "top 0.1%." Until recently he was responsible for a worldwide major aircraft manufacturer, supporting their business jet operation.
He is now involved in one the major (and in my opinion best) dispatch software developers in the world.
Keiko:
[Picture above: as a "just-turned" two-year-old standing on Al Mozzer's Piper Warrior after landing on Block Island, RI (BID) on January 2nd, 1992. Five years later -at 7- she landed a twin-engine Piper Seneca I for the first time w/o any assistance, judging altitude by looking through the side-window on her right ... except, she needed help with the rudders she could not reach, though :)].
Keiko -a graduate of Stonybrook University on LI, NY- is NY baed airline pilot.
Before becoming an airline pilot, she was a Flight Instructor in Florida and on Long Island, NY.
She currently holds type-ratings for the Embraer E170/E190, Airbus A220, Airbus A320, and Airbus A330.
She flies primarily long routes, i.e. Athens, Buenos Aires, Paris, Rome, etc., and loves what she does.
Her FAA certificates include Aircraft Dispatcher, Airline Transport Pilot, Flight Instructor, Ground Instructor, and Remote Pilot.
As an airline pilot she is thoroughly steeped in what it is like to be a the "receiving end" of what Aircraft Dispatchers do, and - distinguishing good from bad practices - passes on her insights to make ours -yours, really- a better program.
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