first solo flight 12/17/2019
I am particularly proud to announce that as of Thursday,
December 3. 2020, my son, Eric Settles, gained his pilot’s license at Goshen
Municipal Airport- GSH. His FAA Examiner wrote on his report “nice touch…beautiful
flying.”
Eric was surely
pleased. This has been a goal of his since his first airplane flight when he
was 8 or 9 years old.
Since his childhood
he has been passionately interested in flight, airplanes, and the airline
industry. I believe he told me that while in college one of his business class
reports was of an airline industry incident.
On December 17,
2019 he experienced his first solo flight.
You know how it is
when you set goals for yourself and life has a way of trying to sabotage your
steps toward those goals. We have work to attend to, college, family concerns
that interrupt our plans.
Congratulations to my son, Eric, for sticking
with it and making a dream come true.
As a gesture of
celebration, my wife, Sherry Borglum, found this 1974 vintage belt buckle to present
as a gift in celebration.
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| vintage belt buckle |
Now we wonder what
may be the next step…?
