Flight Instructors

FLIGHT INSTRUCTORS

This page is a list of local flight instructors and their contact phone numbers and/or e-mail addresses.
Check this page often for updates.

CFIs
These are FAA certified flight instructors in the area.
Note that all CFIs are also Sport Pilot instructors
Most train at specific airports. Some will come to your airport. Those training in experimentals (homebuilts) -- yours or theirs -- have exemptions through the FAA. Not only training is offered: also Biennial Reviews, instrument proficiency checks, high performance and complex aircraft endorsements, as well as student pilot 90 day signoffs may be available.

Rick Abercrombie, CFI
Also will instruct Sport Pilots
457 Cowan Trail
Stockbridge, Georgia 30281
Phone: 770-474-1436 Cell: 770-312-1166

FLIGHT INSTRUCTOR: ROTORCRAFT GYROPLANE
Rotorcraft: the AAI SparrowHawk
e-mail: speedracerrick@bellsouth.net

Don Barnes, CFI, CFII, MEI
Fixed wing single engine, multi-engine, instrument - airplane.
Aiken Municipal Airport (KAIK), Aiken, SC
Phone: (803) 648-7803

Terry Florie, CFI, CFII
Fixed wing single engine, instrument - rental airplane.
Daniel Field (DNL), Augusta, GA
Phone: (706) 651-1660

Steve McGowan, CFI
2725 Herbert Smart Airport Rd.
Macon, Georgia 31032-3236
Cell: 478-461-1451

FLIGHT INSTRUCTOR: ROTORCRAFT HELICOPTER AND GYROPLANE
Rotorcraft: Parsons IV tandem gyroplane
also, the AAI SparrowHawk
Macon Downtown Airport, Macon, GA (KMAC )
Also trains at specified fly-ins.
e-mail: stemcgwn@aol.com

Russell Nance, CFI
377 Water Tank Rd.
Pelion, SC 29303
Phone: 803-894-9673
Cell: 803-608-0360

COMMERCIAL PILOT
ROTORCRAFT HELICOPTER AND GYROPLANE
INSTRUMENT HELICOPTER
FLIGHT INSTRUCTOR: ROTORCRAFT HELICOPTER AND GYROPLANE
Rotorcraft: Dominator gyroplane
Also trains at specified fly-ins.
e-mail: rustynance@gmail.com

Gary Carl Neal, CFI
320 Bryant Rd.
Spartanburg, SC 29303-2437
Phone: 864-583-4319

FLIGHT INSTRUCTOR: ROTORCRAFT HELICOPTER AND GYROPLANE
GROUND INSTRUCTOR ADVANCED
Instructs in a RAF 2000 GTX SE
Also trains at specified fly-ins.
e-mail: gyroman@bellsouth.net

Curtis Patten, Jr., CFI
Rotorcraft: Gyroplane - RAF 2000 side-by-side gyroplane
Waycross-Ware County Airport (AYS), Waycross, GA
Also trains at specified fly-ins.
Phone: (912) 288-4569
Website: http://www.rotorandwings.com

E-mail: curtiss@rotorandwings.com

William Robertson, CFI, CFII
Also will instruct Sport Pilots
3458 Mistletoe Rd.
Appling, GA 30802-2609
Phone: 706-799-6181 Cell: 706-799-6181

COMMERCIAL PILOT
AIRPLANE SINGLE ENGINE LAND
          AIRPLANE MULTIENGINE LAND
          INSTRUMENT AIRPLANE

FLIGHT INSTRUCTOR: AIRPLANE SINGLE ENGINE
GROUND INSTRUCTOR: ADVANCED
Fixed wing single engine, instrument
Thomson-McDuffie County Airport, Thomson, GA (KHQU)
Phone: 706-595-1300
e-mail: williamscottrobertson@yahoo.com

Pierre Smith, CFI, CFII
PO BoX 363
2226 GA HIGHWAY 17 S
Louisville, GA   30434-6802
COMMERCIAL PILOT
          AIRPLANE SINGLE ENGINE LAND
          AIRPLANE MULTIENGINE LAND
          INSTRUMENT AIRPLANE
          GLIDER AERO TOW

FLIGHT INSTRUCTOR: AIRPLANE SINGLE ENGINE
GROUND INSTRUCTOR: ADVANCED
also TRANSITION INSTRUCTOR FOR THE RV TYPE AIRCRAFT
Fixed wing single engine, instrument
Louisville Municipal Airport, Louisville, GA (2J3)
Home: 478-625-7453
Hangar: 478-625-3586

e-mail pierrejs@bellsouth.net

Sport Pilot Instructors

Those listed below have been listed by the EAA (Experimental Aircraft Association) as being a Sport Pilot Instructor (SPI) only. If you know that they are also CFIs for non-sport pilot purposes please contact the Webmaster HERE and their information will be placed above under CFI.

Jim Chaney, Jr.
Gold Seal Flight Service
Instructs: Airplane land and is willing to instruct in experimental aircraft
Statesboro, GA
Phone: 912-687-1211

E-mail: goldsealcfiaim@hotmail.com

Chuck Goodrum
Airborne EdgeX 582 Streak
Instructs: Weight Shift land and is willing to instruct in experimental aircraft
Calhoun, GA
Phone: 404-213-7283

E-mail: trikes@mindspring.com

George Harrison
Instructs: Airplane land, Tailwheel, Glider, and is willing to instruct in experimental aircraft
Atlanta, GA
Phone: 404-358-8120

E-mail: george.harrison@gtri.gatech.edu

Robert Knight
Instructs: Airplane land, Tailwheel, and is willing to instruct in experimental aircraft
Trenton, SC
Phone: 803-663-9142

E-mail: kenlaviator@earthlink.net

Matthew Tiberii
Carolina Aviation
Instructs: Airplane land, Airplane sea, and is willing to instruct in experimental aircraft
Aiken, SC
Phone: 803-502-1007

E-mail: mattyt98@yahoo.com

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