Like many, Dale Aliberti’s aviation career dreams began early. “The best part of vacations was always going to the airport and seeing the airplanes,” he says, his infatuation stoked by a flight in a GA aircraft at age 12. “I fell in love.”
But his love wasn’t blind. “As I started to think about college, I wondered how I was going to afford an aviation career,” the Connecticut native says, especially after being accepted to a university with a good aviation program. “When I saw the first [prospective] bill” — $37,000 for one semester — “I quickly realized I needed to start thinking outside the box. That’s when my career took off.”
