PrcDevelopment: KyleRamsey

	PRC Development Web : KyleRamsey	Pilot Resource Center (PRC)
VATSIM Forums
PRC Wiki FAQ

Most recent edit on 2006-04-03 16:06:59 by MikeBevington

Additions:
Job Update Jan 2006: I was able to prove you can make money in an aviation business but as an employee you're just as likely to go broke. Most of the pilots I know have wives with really good jobs to supplement their lousy incomes. But it is fun! Anyway, I left the FBO business and am back to manufacturing, just hired on at US Cotton, LLC as the Maintenance Manager in New Mexico. Now I'm in cotton ball manufacturing!
I hold a FAA commercial pilot's certificate and also a CFI ticket and have about 900 hours of time in most single engine props and a few twins such as the Piper Seneca and Cessna 414. This pales in comparison to my several thousand hours flying simulators. I have been a member of SATCO/VATSIM for 6-7 years and tried my hand at controlling for a while in Houston ARTCC under the late Eddie Chen. Just recently resigned up to control in ABQ ARTCC. I am also the vCommandant of VATSIM Spec Ops outfit Virtual US Coast Guard and also on staff with several other VA's including a long time member of both Tradewind Caribbean Airlines and Westwind Airlines, two of the Old Guard of VA's with strong VATSIM efforts. I also have about 20 scenery files built and offered on the freeware boards, mostly seaplane bases in the Carib and military bases for Spec Ops units.
IN my spare time I'm writing a novel using FS to do research about a cargo pilot flying props in the Caribbean:
http://h1.ripway.com/zaeronut/AltAir.ZIP∞

Deletions:
I hold a FAA commercial pilot's certificate and also a CFI ticket and have about 800 hours of time in most single engine props around and a few twins such as the Piper Seneca and Cessna 414. This pales in comparison to my several thousand hours flying simulators. I have been a member of SATCO/VATSIM for 6-7 years and tried my hand at controlling for a while in Houston ARTCC under the late Eddie Chen (Eddie tried, God rest his soul, but I'm a pilot). I am also the vCommandant of VATSIM Spec Ops outfit Virtual US Coast Guard and also on staff with several other VA's including a long time member of both Tradewind Caribbean Airlines and Westwind Airlines, two of the Old Guard of VA's with strong VATSIM efforts. I also have about 20 scenery files built and offered on the freeware boards, mostly seaplane bases in the Carib and military bases for Spec Ops units.

Edited on 2006-01-13 17:43:47 by KyleRamsey

Additions:
Job Update Jan 2006: I was able to prove you can make money in an aviation business but as an employee you're just as likely to go broke. Most of the pilots I know have wives with really good jobs to supplement their lousy incomes. But it is fun! Anyway, I left the FBO business and am back to manufacturing, just hired on at US Cotton, LLC as the Maintenance Manager in New Mexico. Now I'm in cotton ball manufacturing!
I hold a FAA commercial pilot's certificate and also a CFI ticket and have about 900 hours of time in most single engine props and a few twins such as the Piper Seneca and Cessna 414. This pales in comparison to my several thousand hours flying simulators. I have been a member of SATCO/VATSIM for 6-7 years and tried my hand at controlling for a while in Houston ARTCC under the late Eddie Chen. Just recently resigned up to control in ABQ ARTCC. I am also the vCommandant of VATSIM Spec Ops outfit Virtual US Coast Guard and also on staff with several other VA's including a long time member of both Tradewind Caribbean Airlines and Westwind Airlines, two of the Old Guard of VA's with strong VATSIM efforts. I also have about 20 scenery files built and offered on the freeware boards, mostly seaplane bases in the Carib and military bases for Spec Ops units.
IN my spare time I'm writing a novel using FS to do research about a cargo pilot flying props in the Caribbean:
http://h1.ripway.com/zaeronut/AltAir.ZIP∞

Deletions:
I hold a FAA commercial pilot's certificate and also a CFI ticket and have about 800 hours of time in most single engine props around and a few twins such as the Piper Seneca and Cessna 414. This pales in comparison to my several thousand hours flying simulators. I have been a member of SATCO/VATSIM for 6-7 years and tried my hand at controlling for a while in Houston ARTCC under the late Eddie Chen (Eddie tried, God rest his soul, but I'm a pilot). I am also the vCommandant of VATSIM Spec Ops outfit Virtual US Coast Guard and also on staff with several other VA's including a long time member of both Tradewind Caribbean Airlines and Westwind Airlines, two of the Old Guard of VA's with strong VATSIM efforts. I also have about 20 scenery files built and offered on the freeware boards, mostly seaplane bases in the Carib and military bases for Spec Ops units.

Oldest known version of this page was edited on 2005-11-07 18:12:03 by KyleRamsey []

Page view:

I am Kyle Ramsey, VATSIM Pilot Training Development Director reporting to Mike Bevington. In real life I operate the largest flight school in New Mexico and am an instructor pilot as well. When not running the FBO and flight school, I sell New Diamond Aircraft; DA-20 C1 Diamond Ecipse, DA-40 Diamond Stars (w/ G1000 cockpits), and next year DA-42 Twin Stars, in New Mexico and Arizona.

I started in aviation the day I was born; I was raised as a USAF brat and travelled the world following my fighter pilot father. Civil Air Patrol, Jr AFROTC, and then into the US Marines where I learned to repair avionics and also served for two years as a rescue swimmer on CH-46 SAR helicopters out of Cherry Point, NC (Semper Fi!). After four years of the USMC I worked for three years as an instrument repair tech fixing DG's, AH's, and HSI's. I left aviation to go to the semiconductor business in 1983, the last was 14 years at Intel Corp as an engineering manager. I also developed and delivered courses in physics, chemistry, and management/leadership while at Intel. In 2004 I ran screaming from Intel and corporate life and back into aviation when I took over my current job as General Manager at West Mesa Aviation where my dream is to show you CAN make a profit in general aviation.

I hold a FAA commercial pilot's certificate and also a CFI ticket and have about 800 hours of time in most single engine props around and a few twins such as the Piper Seneca and Cessna 414. This pales in comparison to my several thousand hours flying simulators. I have been a member of SATCO/VATSIM for 6-7 years and tried my hand at controlling for a while in Houston ARTCC under the late Eddie Chen (Eddie tried, God rest his soul, but I'm a pilot). I am also the vCommandant of VATSIM Spec Ops outfit Virtual US Coast Guard and also on staff with several other VA's including a long time member of both Tradewind Caribbean Airlines and Westwind Airlines, two of the Old Guard of VA's with strong VATSIM efforts. I also have about 20 scenery files built and offered on the freeware boards, mostly seaplane bases in the Carib and military bases for Spec Ops units.

I am very excited about the opportunity to touch thousands of lives in this Pilot Training Program that will vastly increase everyone's enjoyment of the VATSIM environment and keeping it real as it gets with electrons. While pilot ratings emerging from this work is a vision and a work in progress, it is my personal desire that each and every VATSIM pilot would WANT to go through the training and certification processes, whatever they may be, due to the quality of the education they received which increased the speed dramatically on how fast they became comfortable with flight operations of all types on VATSIM. Just as the PRC Phase 1 has become the resource of first resort when newbies post n the forums, I expect this material we're working on in the next phases to be even more important than PRC P1 as the world of avaition on VATSIM will explode when we release the material.