Instructors

PCF Aviation uses only highly qualified, FAA Certified Flight Instructors. All of our instructors are independent contractors from all over the Central Coast. All Flight Instructors must pass an intensive check-out with our Chief Flight Instructor prior to working with our members. We continually monitor the effectiveness of each instructor to ensure our members receive only the highest quality flight instruction. Listed below are the Flight Instructors PCF Aviation currently utilizes and their training qualifications. Please feel free to contact any one of them to schedule flight instruction or for further questions.

PCF Aviation tries to hire from within for its CFI and Charter Pilot positions. Over the years we have sent 17 of our CFIs and Charter Pilots on to the Airlines and other charter operators. Where Are They Now?

Click on an Instructor's name to read their full bio:

Warren Crain
Ratings: SEL, MEL, CFMII
Total time: 9,000+
Favorite airplane to fly: Piper Navajo Panther
Dream airplane to fly: Beaver Seaplane

Shawn Ashby
Ratings: Commercial, Multi-engine, Instrument, CFI, CFII, CMEL
Total time: 2500
Favorite plane to fly: Bonanza
Dream airplane to fly: B-25 or A-26

Gerrit Vanderziel
Ratings: Commercial, Instrument, CFI, CFII, MEI
Total time: 24,000
Favorite airplane to fly: Pitts Special

Jim Pickens
Ratings: Commercial, Multi-engine, CFI, CFII, MEI
Total time: 3500
Favorite airplane to fly: C-152
Dream airplane to fly: B-17, Stearman, Space Shuttle

Jon Stamets
Ratings: CFI, CFII, MEI
Total time: 750 hours
Favorite airplane to fly: RV-6
Dream airplane to fly: F-22

Rhonda West

Ratings: CFI, CFII

Total time: 2700

Favorite plane to fly: Anything affordable

Dream airplane to fly: Anything Glass

Bio: Flight Instructor since 2000. Private Pilot since 1992

Orion Walton

Jeremy Taylor

Ratings: CFI, CFII, MEI
Total Time: 1,200 Hours
Favorite Airplane to Fly: Piper Seneca
Dream Airplane to Fly: Pilatus (PC-12), seaplane, Extra (EA-300)