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Hello and Welcome to my SteveKaviation.com. As a visitor here, you are part of a fantastic community.
My name is Steve and I started this site to document my journey back into the flying community after years of inactivity. I have grown up with a passion for flying that started as I watched my dad build his career from a flight instructor in the early 1970’s to being a corporate pilot with over 15,000 hours total time by the time he stopped in 2013.
My first memory riding in an airplane was a Cessna 150 when I was about 5, and since then I have been able to ride or fly in many different aircraft with my dad and during my own time flying.
My first flight lesson was in 1988 at N43 in Easton Pa. This was in a Piper Tomahawk, PA38-112.
My first solo was in October 1988 at 69N in Slatington Pa in a Cessna 150J.
I got may private in October 1989 in a Cessna 172.
I took several years off flying to get a Engineering Degree and then continued my training in 1995 in Madison WI where I completed my my Instrument, Commercial SEL and MEL. I eventually got a CFI and CFII that expired in 2002.
My Goal is to get current BFR in SEL and then continue to instrument proficiency followed by MEL and possibly renewing the CFI and CFII within the next year.
Follow along the Journey as I work though the Phase of Flight.
Feel free to send me a message with comments or question and I will do my best to update the site regularly to answer.
Another photo from the past.
The above image is again from the airport at KLBE and the jet pictured is a Lear 24 in front of what used to be Latrobe Aviation. This was taken in September 1976.
One of my most memorable rides with my dad was in a test flight in this jet. I remember sitting in the back with my dad and two additional pilots up front. I watched the two pilots put on their oxygen masks prior to takeoff and my dad turning to me saying to hold on as they did a max performance takeoff and max rate of climb. Not sure what they were testing during the flight, as I think I was around 8 or 9 at the time, but eventually as we climbed out of KLBE the passenger O2 masks dropped from overhead.