CERTIFICATES & RATINGS:
Multiengine Rating
Instrument Rating
Commercial Pilot
Rotorcraft – Helicopter
Glider
Type Rating – CE-500
Single Engine, Sea Rating
Letter Operation Auth. – T-2
Multiengine, Sea Rating
Type Rating – GIII
Experimental Type Ratings-T-28, T-2, MiG-15/17, L-39, FJ-4, Alpha Jet

FLIGHT TIME
Total Time-6,750 hr.

MILITARY SERVICE:
U.S.N. Flight Surgeon, flight training through solo at NAS Pensacola, in T-28 (1971), NATC Flight Surgeon NAS Patuxent River, 1971 – 1973. Retired as Lt. Commander to return to civilian medical training and practice.

Senior Aviation Medical Examiner since 1975

OTHER AVIATION RELATED EXPERIENCE:

Senior FAA Aviation Medical Examiner,

Written aviation articles, including aviation safety articles, for EAA Warbirds magazine.

Presentation to both Flying Physicians Assoc., and FAA Family Fly-in on HU-16 Albatross trip to Perth, Australia and return. Performed all flight planning for two month, trans-Pacific trip, and flew 50% of 170 hr. trip.

Member of EAA Warbirds Board of Directors 1997

Member of X-Prize Board of Directors 2003 to present

Member QB association, Jackson Hanger 1998 to present

President, Jackson Hole Chapter of EAA 2004

Lifetime member of Flying Physicians Association, 1970 to present

Fly our FJ-4B “Fury”, the last one in the world in flying condition, with the U.S.N. Legacy Flight, with F/A-18’s from VFA-122 and VFA-125. Participated in formation flight certification at NAS Lemoore, March 2004.

Formation qualified as Wingman (1992) and Leader (1994), and annually thereafter, by the North American Trainer Association.

Have flown in EAA Airventure Oshkosh airshows every year since 1992, in the T-28, T-2, L-39 and FJ-4B.

Winner Jet Class Gold, Reno Air Races -  2007

Board of Directors, Smithsonian Air and Space Museum

Volunteer pilot for Veterans Airlift Command