About Me

I am a Gold Seal CFII (Certificated Flight Instructor, Instruments), a Platinum CSIP (Cirrus Standarized Instructor Pilot), and a receipient of the 2023 CSIP of the Year award.

I teach at JATO Aviation and work with private owners mainly at San Carlos and Palo Alto airports for private pilot or commercial certificates, instrument ratings, fight reviews, IPCs and recurrent training. I am available for Cirrus transition training including Embark program. I owned and flew Cirrus aircraft since 2003 and have over 4,000 hours dual instruction given in SRXX airplanes,

I am a Dean of Advanced Avionics at COPA University, where I develop and teach courses for Cirrus Perspective, Garmin GTN and GNS as well as Avidyne IFD and DFC avionics equipment. Visit Cirrus Pilot Proficiency Program for more information about these courses and how to sign up for them.

Please visit my Training pages and contact me for transition and recurrent training, BFRs, IPCs, ferry services or if you just have a question about Cirrus. If you are not located in San Francisco Bay Area, I can fly to your location to provide instruction.

Since 2014, I've been organizing small group, usually about 12 airplanes, annual flying trips to Mexico and Central America. The Trips page and my blog includes information about the most recent ones. Please contact me if you'd like to be added to my mailing list about future trips and receive alerts when a registration opens.

I love flying in different countries and on different continents. Regulations require that you hold a pilot certificate of the country where the airplane is registered, and I hold pilot certificates from EASA (Europe), SACAA (South Africa) and CAA (New Zealand). Visit the airports page to see the map of all airports in the worlds where I landed as PIC. Please visit the my Travel pages to read about my flying adventures and consider contacting me for advice regarding international travel or to discuss pilot service to fly or ferry an airplane overseas.

If you would like to schedule time for a lesson or a phone call, please check Google Calendar for my availability, it is valid for 30 days into the future. You can use Contact page to send messages.