Careers

There are pilots who enjoy the long cross-country flight. I’m certainly in that category. I’ve flown my airplane from Florida to Maine to Seattle, San Diego and back, crisscrossing the country more than a dozen times. With that considered, Abingdon Welch has me beat by a long shot. Welch, currently a regional airline first officer, […]

Jerrel Storrud was always interested in aviation, but circumstance led him to become an auto mechanic. Eventually, he became an aircraft mechanic at Neptune Aviation in Missoula, Montana. He continued to pursue ratings, gaining the experience to step into the roll of first officer at the aerial firefighting company.

Capt. Peter Nadon never envisioned himself as a pilot when he was a child because he never knew anyone who flew. He actually studied geology in college, but he got the flying bug. He turned aviation into a career at Neptune Aviation as an air tanker pilot flying Lockheed P-2s, a career he says is […]

Skip Stewart’s career in aviation started at an early age, whether he realized it at the time or not. As a child, he flew with his grandfather in a cropduster. Stewart started his “airshow training” at 9 years old, when he began flying model airplanes.

We call it flying in a black hole — no stars or ground lighting to guide you. You are flying a TP-3, a heavy, lumbering beast of an airplane, and you are just 350 feet above the ground, accelerating toward 150 knots. The cockpit glows an eerie Halloween green. Your captain indicates it’s time, and […]

If you fly with an iPad, there is a good chance you do it with ForeFlight leading the way. It’s hard to find an app in any industry that dominates the way ForeFlight Mobile does because it just works. It has to because flying is serious business, and a lame product would have been laughed […]

During his 14-year career with Garmin International, software engineer Joe Gepner has had a hand in developing cutting-edge technology in glass panel avionics.

Marie Fredieu, the first female helicopter pilot with the Florida Forest Service, protects wildlife and helps control wildfires.

After being a flight instructor for 10 years, pilot Bo Gilham expanded his horizons to do something different and began working at the Florida Forest Service.

Allan Schrader found that having mentors along the way helped him shape his career into what it is today as president and CEO of Lightspeed Aviation.