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I'm a Commercial Pilot with Airplane Single Engine Land (ASEL), Airplane Single Engine Sea (ASES) and Instrument ratings. I also have Private Pilot privileges for Airplane Multi-Engine Land (AMEL) and Rotorcraft/Helicopter as well as a Remote Pilot certificate for flying drones. I've been flying since 1989 and have over 3,000 hours - most of it in tailwheel airplanes - but also in seaplanes, multi-engine airplanes and helicopters. I have owned the 1986 Maule MX-7-180 bush plane above since 1998 and have over 1,800 hours in it as pilot-in-command. This photo was taken at Warren airstrip in the Idaho backcountry in 2016. See the Airplane tab for more information about my Maule. From 2012 to the present I flew forest fires for the North Carolina Forest Service in Cessna A185F and 182 scout planes. See the Other tab for a photo of the 185F. I am still one of their scout plane pilots. I have flown many different aircraft including: Cessna 172, 172RG, 182, 180 amphibian, 185; Piper PA-28, J-3, J-3 float plane; Taylorcraft BC-12D float plane; De Havilland DHC-2 Beaver amphibian; Husky A1B amphibian; Daher Katana DA-20; Beechcraft 76 Duchess; Robinson R22 helicopter, R44 helicopter, R44 float helicopter; Enstrom F28 helicopter; Eurocopter AS350 helicopter; Bell UH-1H helicopter. My education includes a Master of Science degree in Software Systems Engineering and a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Mathematics. My experience includes four years active duty military service as a ground radio repairman with the United States Air Force during the Vietnam war, twenty three years with the Federal Government in radio communications, electronics, law enforcement and computer systems, eleven years with private industry managing software development projects, three years running my own Part 91.147 air tour business, 14 years as a pilot with NC Forest Service and 12 years as a pilot with Civil Air Patrol. The Adventures tab contains travel blogs with pictures of my flying adventures. The Other tab is for sharing a variety of flying and non-flying information. The Forum button at the bottom takes you to a phpBB forum that contains public posts and photos related to my airplane, my adventures and this website. My forum does not duplicate the Maule Forum, which is designed to share information among Maule owners. I designed and built this website with hand-coded HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP and a MYSQL database. This background photo was taken by me from a Robinson R44 helicopter climbing out from a landing on a basalt rock in Alaska's Prince William Sound in front of calving glaciers in May 2008.