VFW News: Who is Flying Your Plane?

Do you ever wonder about the pilot in the Caption’s seat while you settle in for your flight, wherever it may take you?

One pilot ‘entered through the back door’ so to speak as he started in Navy flight school graduating college and then flew F/A-18 fighter jets. He saw four different theaters and eventually became a Navy test pilot.

Flying the dynamic nature and complexity of military ops prepared the pilot to be one of the best commercial pilots. He knew how a ‘holding’ pattern, thunderstorms or turbulence can affect passengers having connecting flights.

In pressurized decision-making his Na...