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Full biographies of each
Training Center Instructor are published online because they provide instruction in customer-owned aircraft. The customer's insurance underwriters require our specifics.
Charlie began his aviation
career as a radar controller in the USAF. He utilized VA benefits for pilot training. In 1971, shortly after completing instructor certification, Charlie founded Aero-Tech and has
been President since.
Aero-Tech was a part-time passion for Charlie, being gainfully employed as an IBM engineer.
He brings 30 years of IBM business-background and customer service standards to Aero-Tech.
Now retired from IBM, he still loves to fly aircraft and instruct pilots. He still supervises the daily training regimes at Aero-Tech and believes in "management by walking around."
Charlie is an active Multi-Engine Airline Transport Pilot. His 14,000 accident-free, incident-free,
violation-free hours range in aircraft as diverse as a J3 Cub, Cirrus SR20, and Lancair to a Lear
25. His flight assignments have been equally as diverse: banner tow, aerial traffic and fire patrol, Part 135 Air Taxi, instructor pilot and maintenance-ferry pilot. Charlie has flown as PIC to
destinations throughout the US, Canada, Caribbean, and Central America - as far away as LaCeiba, Honduras and Anchorage AK - all in general aviation aircraft.
An active flight instructor since 1969, he has logged over 6,600 hours of dual given. He has been a busy FAA Designated Pilot Examiner for single engine and multi-engine airplanes since
1992 with the LOU FSDO. He provides regular pilot services in several corporate aircraft including a Navajo, Aerostar, Duke and Malibu.
The Kentucky Aviation Association has honored Charlie twice: in 1993 with the KAA Certificate of Achievement Award and again in 1994 with the KAA President's Award. He served as Aero
-Tech's Air-Taxi line pilot from 1983 to 1997 and as 135 Check Airman from 1989 to 1994 in the CE-414 and CE-335.
Charlie serves as a consultant to the aviation industry. He was one of eight people active on
the national Cessna Aircraft Company Advisory Panel, providing input and direction for the New-Production Cessna products. Charlie is proficient in Technically Advanced Aircraft and Avionics
(TAA). He is authorized as a instructor for Cirrus and Lancair. He is also a Cessna FITS Factory Authorized Instructor (CFAI).
Approximate breakdown of 3,500 total multi engine piston aircraft, as pilot in command:
Cessna small twin-piston CE-310 337 400 hours
Cessna cabin-class piston CE-335/340/414/421 2,000 hours
Beechcraft twin-piston BE 55/58/60 800 hours
Piper twin piston PA 30, 34, 41, 60 1,500 hours
FAA Certificate: No. 1871983, CFIAIMEI.
Current Second Class Medical, no restrictions
Primary instructor for Beech Singles, Baron, Duke
Primary instructor for Piper Malibu, Aerostar & Navajo.
FAA Authorized Designated Pilot Examiner for:
- Single Engine Land
- Quest Kodiak 100 Turbine Single
- PA46 Turbine Single
- Beechcraft Baron
- Beechcraft Duke
- Cessna 414/421
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