Congratulations Erik Klavon, CFI and MEI, who added another “I” to his ratings and passed his Instrument Instructor checkride today with DPE Ashley Snider!
Liz Sommers
CFII
New CFI: Erik Klavon
Congratulations to Erik Klavon, MEI for passing his CFI single engine add on today with DPE Rich Conte at MCC!
Way to go Erik!
Liz Sommers, CFII
New Private Pilot: Alex Guo
Alex started flight training last 2/14 and was fully prepared today to explain the subtle difference between an “aircraft 100H inspection” and an “airframe 100H inspection”. After a satisfactory oral and flight portion, despite gusting conditions at F72, Rich Conté awarded Alex with his private pilot license.
Congratulations Alex!
Ronald Put, CFII
New Private Pilot: Victor Levasseur
Congratulations to Victor Levasseur on passing his Private Pilot checkride this morning (11-May) with DPE, Tom Hornak! During the debrief, Tom said he struggled to find fault with any of Victor’s maneuvers. Congrats Victor and excellent work!!
CFI’s: Brandon, Terence and Jeff
First Solo: Alex Guo
Congratulations to Alex Guo on his first solo at KOAK today!
After a couple hours flying around our little race track AKA “left traffic 28L” a few days ago, today seemed almost a leisurely affair having 28R pretty much to ourselves. The traffic was light, the tower was friendly and efficient, the winds were good and even the clouds lifted a little. Alex took the controls and confirmed that 9UL really does climb better with just one person on board.
Ronald Put (CFII)
First Solo: Christiaan Prins
Congratulations to Christiaan for his first SOLO FLIGHT in Byron. Oakland was so nice to change the ATIS to “no pattern work” after calling for taxi, just for us. So off to Byron. Christiaan made 2 perfect touch and go and one full stop landing on 30, dodging parachute jumping planes taking off against the traffic flow, gliders coming back home and other pilots entering the pattern on the left base.
Roland Koch, CFI