Hello Galt community, my name is Adam Varrassi and I’m one of the instructors at JB Aviation. I live in Twin Lakes with my wife of 9 years, Kristen, and our three awesome kids, AJ, Lukas, and Emersyn. My aviation journey has been a winding road. I completed my flight training and became a [...]
Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Doug Graham and I have been a member of EAA 932 since 2014. As a child I suffered from SNS. For those unfamiliar, that stands for Stiff Neck Syndrome. The cause was determined to be the irresistible urge to tilt my head upward at every passing aircraft. [...]
Hello! My name is Ron Friend. My wife, Lori, and I own a 1979 Cessna 172N Skyhawk. I had a great fear of flying all my life, couldn’t do it. In 2015 my Uncle Randy, who has been flying professionally and for fun his entire adult life, taught me why I shouldn’t fear flying. [...]
Grass Roots Galt – Meet Chapter Member Mike Evans Hi, I’m Mike Evans. I moved to Woodstock from Chicago in 2009, and started hanging around Galt in the spring of 2010. With only a few hours in my logbook, Larry Ewing took me up in the Christavia Mk-1 he owned, affectionately named “The Chubby.” After [...]
Hello my name is Ralph Hixon,My aviation dream began as a senior in high school. Several classmates and I decided we wanted to fly helicopters in the US Army. I wasn't able to realize that dream but Uncle Sam invited me to jump out of airplanes if I was interested. I joined the Airborne and [...]
Flying was deep rooted in my family. Growing up my family owned a Piper Tri-Pacer, and my uncle trained pilots in P-38 Lightning’s during World War II. I had steady access to the Tri-Pacer, and I enjoyed learning to fly in it. I took lessons during summer breaks from college at the University of Illinois. [...]
On Saturday July 16th Chapter 932 had a flyout scheduled to Washington Island, WI. We planned to attend the Lion’s Club annual fish boil. George and Wendy Richardson were the only chapter members that made the event because they left Galt a day early. Due to low IFR conditions across southern and central Wisconsin [...]
Ed Moricoli Scholarship Update: About G’dang Time!! Grass Roots Galt Edition by JT Thuma In 2018, I received the Ed Moricoli Flight Training Scholarship. I was pumped. I started doing ground school with Justin Cleland and flying with Josh at JB. We flew throughout the spring and summer and by the end of [...]
Meet Mike Land I’ve been involved to some small extent in aviation ever since my father bought me a ride in a Cessna 172 as a child, while on vacation in Missouri. The air, the view, and the feeling of freedom had quite an impression on a young eagle (1970s, long before there [...]
The day has finally arrived! On Wednesday, the 11th of this month, I successfully passed the Private Pilot checkride with DPE Jim Bair! It has certainly been a long time coming, but I’m glad to have endured the private pilot journey with so much support around me. I know my aviation journey doesn’t end here, [...]
