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About Me

I have moved around a lot in the past few yrs. I was born in NJ and moved to CA when I was just 1yr old. Grew up in Arcadia, CA. After HS I spent 6 yrs in the Marine Corps. After the Marines I lived in Hawaii and worked for Bank of Hawaii as an IT Specialist in Honolulu, HI for almost 2 years. I started flying in Hawaii also and after I got my private pilots license there, I started to look for a real school to get me to the airlines. I attended Delta Connection Academy (Owned by Delta Airlines), in Florida, early 2006. I completed my flight training to be a commercial pilot/Flight instructor in 2007 and now I am a flight instructor here. Flying has always been a dream of mine. It was one of the main reasons I joined the service out of High School. As for as my social life is concerned, I guess I pretty much like doing what most ppl like to do. I do admit that I am probubly still a kid at heart and I like to have fun. I do travel A LOT and that is always fun. I always thought life is too short and we gotta make the best of it, so we should do everything we want to/can before it ends. I have been very fortunate to get the chance to pursue my dream job and to have gone to many places around the world already. I have my parents to thank for that.

My Blog

Quit my Job teaching at Delta

So today I had to give up my position at Delta as a flight instructor. The price they quoted me for my CFII course was off by 200%, which made this course VERY VERY pricy. Because Delta re...
Posted by Daniel on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 03:00:00 PST

Longest Flight I have ever done

Well I have been slackin off and not posting for a month. Whoops.. Anyways, after teaching for about 5 weeks I was put into our Certified Flight Instructor Instrument (CFII) course. We are...
Posted by Daniel on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 10:26:00 PST

Did I make a mistake staying at DCA to teach

So.... as you all know, I graduated standz class and got places into the international group, which is kewl. Well.... this week I find out they are forcing me into the cessna 152. For thos...
Posted by Daniel on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 02:57:00 PST

Week of June....

Well, I guess this is an eventfull week for me. We graduated Indoc/Standz class this past tuesday. Talk about a rough week last week. I don't think I ever worked so hard in my life.&...
Posted by Daniel on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 03:01:00 PST

Real airline job VS teaching... what to do what to do

I was honored by one of my old flight isntructors who is now about to make captain for Skywest airlines, to be offered an chance to fly for PSA airlines. This really caught me off guard. I...
Posted by Daniel on Mon, 28 May 2007 08:54:00 PST

Indoc class

So yesterday we started our indoc class. It was just an orientation, today was when things really got serious. I was put on for a 630AM flight this morning. Last night I was stressin...
Posted by Daniel on Sat, 26 May 2007 08:00:00 PST

War and Peace the soldiers

There are too many people that are quick to say that we should send our boys back home. They also don't understand the operational tempo that is out there and what our troops have to deal with.&...
Posted by Daniel on Thu, 24 May 2007 11:24:00 PST

Brain DEAD

I am brain dead now; I started studying for my one week indoc/stands class which starts this Friday. I started on Monday and hit the books for about 9 hrs at the coffee shop. Tuesday ...
Posted by Daniel on Wed, 23 May 2007 02:16:00 PST

Delta

Well... last tuesday I went and had my interview at Delta Connections Academy. It was a looooooooong day, we had 2 tests to take in the morning. 1st one was kinda like a I.Q. test.&nb...
Posted by Daniel on Sat, 19 May 2007 12:57:00 PST

Home....

I find myself thinking about where is HOME for me. Is it Hawaii where our family now has a house? Is it California where I grew up and many of my friends are at? or is home just a place where yo...
Posted by Daniel on Fri, 11 May 2007 06:05:00 PST