Georgios Michelogiannakis

Michelogiannakis has been actively flight instructing for six years. Born in Greece; he pursued flight training at Reid-Hillview airport (RHV) in California where he flew a few of his first hundred hours mostly in a 180HP Cessna 172. Shortly after becoming a CFI; he focused on private and instrument pilot training while acquiring additional qualifications such as MEI; ATP MEL; and TAA training. Michelogiannakis' latest focus is G1000 transition training; introductory flights; as well as re-currency of "rusty" pilots. Much of his flight instructing time is as an unpaid volunteer as an instructor and check pilot of the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) where he provides not only transition training and evaluation; but also evaluation flights for search and rescue (SAR) pilot candidates. As part of CAP; Michelogiannakis has participated in numerous actual SAR and disaster relief missions. He is also an active FAASTeam representative who frequently delivers seminars on many safety topics. He says