Greetings Aviation Enthusiasts!
My name is Bryan Risley and I am a certified flight instructor (CFI and CFII). Aviation is and always has been my lifelong passion, hence the title of this website.
My purpose in launching this website is twofold. Primarily, I want to share my passion for aviation with others. During my tenure as an active flight instructor, I’ve enjoyed the opportunity to help others learn to fly and to open up the sky to smiling faces. Although I am but a small part in the total process, I am a critical part and I take that obligation seriously.
Secondly, I want an additional avenue to persue aviation. I think through posting on this blog I can do a lot to spread aviation news and events to interested people, but also keep myself on the cutting edge of knowledge regarding the field.
I love this stuff! I do it as my job, I think about it during my time off. I have been infected with the bug and there is no sign of it leaving anytime soon. I hope to spread my infatuation with all that is aviation and I hope this website helps me to do just that.
Welcome aboard. Please bookmark this page. Add it to your RSS feed or whatever you do want to do. As an active CFI and CFII (and soon to be MEI), I offer my expertise to any of you who may have questions. If I know the answer and can point you along the airway, you will have helped me inflate my ego. If I don’t know the answer, I’ll find it out, and that will benefit both of us.
I am 25 years old and am an aspiring professional pilot. My goal as of right now is to fly for Southwest Airlines. The story that brought me where I am today is nothing short of amazing and I look forward to telling that story in a later post. For now, suffice it to say that I quit my day job to persue aviation as a career and it was one of the toughest choices I have ever made. However, now that I have made that choice and am living the life of a budding professional aviator, I can say that I have never been happier than I am today and I MADE THE RIGHT CHOICE.
In my flight instructing position with a nearby flight school, I am flying about 70-80 hours per month. I am logging time like a mad man. The problem is that I only have about 18 hours of multiengine time as of today. In order to make it into a professional airline position, I need to increase that number to at least 100, and even better 200.
I will chart my progress as I go. However, my purpose will not be to merely document my career, but rather to point the way to others who are in a similar position as to avenues that work and avenues that don’t.
Again, welcome abord!