I’ve been flying for 62 years–solo at 16, private at 17, commercial/CFI at 18. ATP, type ratings in CE-500, LR-jet, DA-10, 1121&24, Commercial glider, airplane single and multi-engine land and sea, helicopter, balloon–CFI airplanes single & MEL&Sea, helicopter, instrument–ground instructor basic, advanced, instrument. 28000 hours–and have been in the FBO business for 54 years. Owned over 500 aircraft, and brokered perhaps twice that many more. Fly a King Air 200. Have flown a Cessna Caravan to 83 countries around the world (including every country in the Western hemisphere, plus Antarctica.