Mike holds SEL, MEL, CFI, and glider ratings and is an active flight instructor, mostly in gliders (Schweitzer 2-33, Super Blanik L-23, and Grob 103 and 103 SL motorglider) but is also instructing power students in a Cessna 140 and Cessna 150 taildragger. He is working on MEI and Instrument Instructor.
He has 1,300+ hours total time and 600-700 instruction hours and "a few in the 182."
A CFI for the past year and a half, Mike is an aeronautical engineering graduate from University of Central Florida (UCF) in Orlando. He began flying in 1988 while in college, training in a Cessna 150 at the Flying Seminole Ranch airport in nearby Oviedo, Florida (now closed).
He currently lives on the airport at his home base Seminole-Lake Glider Port, a 3,000-foot grass strip ideal for a 182.
He joined AOPA shortly after earning his private pilot certificate. He is an active participant in Project Pilot II.
His reaction when advised by AOPA by phone: "HOLY COW!"
We'll have more on Mike and his new 182 shortly.