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Basically when a student is determining what they want to do for a career, what they want to do with their lives, they -
Some of them just seem to have a passion for wanting a little bit of calculated risk in their life,
or their lives would be empty; their souls would be empty.
And so, flying is something that -
I mean since, you know, since cavemen started looking up at the sky wondering what was up there,
I think man has wanted to fly.
And it still holds that -
I don't know, that curiosity, that passion.
And so when a student comes in, what they do is, they
start with the program, they start working through the program as a career in what they're going to do, and they
start on the path of - the first milestone is to solo, is to hover and solo in a helicopter.
And when they hover, that's their first huge thing. It's just quite a - it's just, it's something, it's skill that you just get.
And then they solo. And once they solo, their confidence level begins to build.
And then they work more towards their private certification.
When we put the program together, the really exciting part for me and for my son is that -
is to develop a company and the people that we've had come in here.
They have become our family.
We have, we do kind of an unusual thing: we hire couples. So we often have the husband and the wife both working for us.
There's - it's a real family atmosphere.
The maintenance department, you know, every month they have a cookout
and they get sandwiches and stuff, and kids and families show up.
It's
It's who we are.
It's a welcoming, home-like atmosphere.
It just - and it's still professional.
We would not be in this program if it wasn't for my son.
Sean and I, Sean is my -
He's my son and he's my business partner. But he, he loves to fly.
He actually taught me, he would take me out and teach me how to fly and teach me how to hover and that when I knew that
'Oh my gosh, this is the most fun ever.'
But I also knew that that really was his passion. And he was -
I actually told him, I said: 'You kind of embarrass me,' because I taught him how to drive,
and I think he was much kinder to me, teaching me how to fly,
than I was teaching him how to drive.
He was much more patient than I was, to my surprise.
It's been a lot of fun working with him.
It's fun to just, to be best friends with the kids as well, and to have them in your life.
It just is.