My turn -- 3000+ hour commercial/multi/instrument no stratosphere, no instructing, just thick air aviating around the Western USA from age 10 onward with the dream of being a down-and-dirty master IFR pilot. I reached a high point in my skills around 1990, then my hours/year dropped and dropped. No flying 2004-2012. Then 5 years as a Tactical Flight Officer for the local Sheriff's Office (long story how this came about). I did get my rotorcraft add-on. I retired from there in 2017.
Why all that background? Because even when flying with the Sheriff's Office and managing law enforcement communications, ground nav, thermal imaging, goggles, and flying home PIC from calls ... my IFR navigation and ATC skills were in
smoking ruins. I had little hope of recapturing my lifetime dream come true.
Enter XP, the 412 and 429 helicopters, and Pilot Edge. I got my CAT ratings except 11 (I forgot) then more recently flew around as Army and Navy helicopters (just to keep things weird and interesting). Then I just got CAT-11 and I decided to start the I rating process. While reading up I saw Keith's advice to watch the
free training workshops. I just finished the
Departures Demystified one. Years and years of flying real world LO IFR and going to Flight Safety yearly.. and I learned new things. But more importantly it was an amazing refresh.
Thank you Keith and your team. I have great respect for the PE software engineering (my lifelong vocation, literally since 1970, and still currently my business), and for you as an aviation teacher. PilotEdge is a masterpiece of engineering and service. Your engineering team to include Tim Krajcar(!!) should feel really good about the job you did in design and implementation. And the service level provided by the controllewrs is simply first class. I hope like heck you are enjoying the fruits of your creativity, capability, and efforts. And compliments to your controllers. They are amazing.