Selecting the best flight instructor for YOU is the most important decision you will make in your flight training experience! 

Frankly speaking, there is a very wide range of qualification, experience, and instructional ability among flight instructors.  Here are just a few of these differences:

Experience: Flight experience is measured in logbook hours.  Believe it or not, some flight instructors have less than 50 total solo hours in the cockpit and less than three years of total flight experience!  Others have many instructional hours in the practice area and almost no solo hours of long cross-country flight.  Other flight instructors have many thousands of flight experience in the national air space system as professional pilots.

You will want a flight instructor who has extensive "in the system" professional flight experience and who has more than 1,000 of actual flight training experience.

Qualifications:  Flight qualifications are measured by pilot ratings and professional recognition by such groups as the National Association of Flight Instructors (NAFI).  Minimally qualified flight instructors have a commercial and certificated flight instructor ratings.  The most qualified flight instructors possess their ATP (Airline Transport Pilot) rating.  And the very best flight instructors have been recognized as Master Certificated Flight Instructor (MCFI).  When you add formal education to the mix, those with Masters' and Ph.D. degrees bring even greater qualifications to the flight instruction process.

Bob Miller, ATP, MCFI Experience and Qualifications:

Bob brings over 4,500 hours of flight experience to the training table.  Approximately 3,000 of these hours were logged in high performance/complex turbo-charged airplanes traveling over long distances in all weather operations.   He owns a turbo-charged Cessna 210 which he flies several times weekly in business travel.  Bob has developed specialized knowledge in high altitude and extreme winter weather operations.

Bob logged the remaining 1,500 hours conducting flight instruction.

As far as his qualifications are concerned, Bob possesses an ATP (Airline Transport Pilot) rating and has been recognized by the National Association of Flight Instructors (NAFI) as a Master Certificated Flight Instructor.  Note: Of the over 80,000 flight instructors in the United States, less than 450 are Master Certificated Flight Instructors.

Bob also possesses a Bachelors and Masters degrees.