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Bill	Bill was born and raised on the Island of Oahu. He is retired Fire Captain and continues to fly airplanes and gliders after his retirement. He is a FAA certified mechanic and flight instructor pilot for gliders, single engine and multiengine aircraft. He first started flying in 1963 and obtained his glider rating in 1988 with the Hawaii Wing Civil Air Patrol to assist with the CAP Glider Cadet Program. At the present time he is the CAP Glider Program Manager where he and other volunteers provide glider introductory flight training to Hawaii CAP cadet members. He is also one of our tow plane pilots and conducts initial tow pilot training for Honolulu Soaring Company for tail dragger and glider towing endorsements. He says that he will continue to fly gliders and airplanes to help promote general aviation flying in Hawaii and for the beauty and freedom that flying provides.
Dwight	Dwight was born in Brooklyn, New York. He attended the High School of Performing Arts. He then attended the City University of New York where he received a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology. Looking towards traveling the world, he joined the Navy as a Sonar Technician holding a top secret clearance. After going through two six-month Western Pacific Deployments, he was given the opportunity to attend the Law Enforcement School at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. He was stationed at Barbers Point Naval Air Station as a law enforcement officer. In September 1995, he joined the Department of Defense Police in Hawaii. He took on roles of patrol supervisor and desk sergeant. He even became the Sergeant-in-Charge of the DA Police Bike Unit which became successful in reducing the crime statistics in military housing in Hawaii. He is currently assigned as a Sergeant/Police Instructor with the Directorate of Emergency Services. He has an appetite to learn new things. He was in love with flying since he was a kid living in New York. He holds various licenses, commercial gliders, mult-engine, instrument, etc. He has been flying for over twenty years and has over 8,000 hours. And we freqently here him say "I love flying aerobatics". He has the ability to entertain both fellow pilots and passengers. He strongly believes that if you’ve walked away from a flight with a BIG SMILE, he has truly touched your soul.
Jay	Jay Graduated from the US Naval Academy and wanted to fly, but wasn't able to because strick vision requirements back then. Served 11 years in the Surface Navy on two warships and a repair ship before getting out and becoming a civilian again. Little Sister, Suni Williams is still plugging away at her Naval Career, the last 8 have been with NASA. She is currently aboard the the International Space Station as the flight engineer and will set the record for the longest time for a woman in space, six months, and the most time conducting EVAs or "space walks". She is scheduled to glide back to Earth aboard a space shuttle in July 2007. The December night launch from Cape Canaveral was spectacular. Wish we all could ride a rocket to altitude. Unable to "Fly Navy" I pursued aviation as a hobbie getting my pilots license in the Philippeans while homeported on Cruiser there, lots of remote places to fly to with shipmates and friends. Learned to fly gliders and taildraggers in Hawaii during my second tour as Navigator on a destroyer. Countless hours flying kids in the Civil Air Patrol in both gliders and our beast, a C185 that only about four of us wanted to fly. Got my commercial ratings in both gliders and airplanes before leaving the islands. After completing department head school assigned to a repair ship in San Diego and started flying rides and towing for Sky Sailing in Warner Springs, and the Associated Glider Club of San Diego, CA. Picked up a flight instructor rating, required to give rides in the S 2-32, ride for two glider. Moved to Arkansas and got married and did very little soaring for a few years but started flying skydivers in a several C182 which was good fun, but a bit more dangerous than soaring. New civilian career as a nuclear medicine technologist got me back into soaring during travel assignments in Utah; Morgan Valley Soaring, Massachusetts; Plymouth Aviation and Soaring, back here on Oahu, Soar Hawaii Sailplanes, Inc. and then to Washington where I was a tow pilot and selected as the chief flight instructor, and member of the board of directors of our outstanding glider club; Evergreen Soaring out of Arlington where we soared the Cascades and raced in the desert of Eastern Washington out of Ephrata. I finally got my own sailplane to cut the apron strings and go cross country and start competing. That has been put on hold for a while as I recently accepted a job at Castle Medical Center in Kailua which brought me back to Oahu and The Orriginal Glider Rides where my Soaring Adventures began. I hope yours begin here aswell in the sport of the new millenieum. There isn't a better place to enjoy our sport and perhaps learn to soar like an Eagle. Jay T. Pandya
Jerry
Jim	Jim, Born & Raised in Spokane Washington Moved to Hawaii August 21st 1976 Ratings: Commercial Glider, Private Single Engine Land with over 4000 hours flight time. I always had wanted to learn how to fly but could never afford it. As soon as I could afford it, I did it. I learned to fly gliders first in 1987 earning a private license and then a commercial license. Flying glider rides on weekends afforded me the extra cash for a single engine rating which I got in 1993 at the Hickam(AFB Hawaii) Aero Club. I love to fly gliders and I love the camaraderie with the other pilots at Dillingham airfield. What a great bunch of people! And what a great part of the island to hang out on weekends, I just love it!!
John	John came to Hawaii in 1949 to play football under the tutelage of Coach Tommy Kaulukukui. John lived in Hilo, attended UH Hilo and later graduated from UH Manoa having earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Education. John also earned his professional teaching certificate while working towards a Masters Degree in Far Eastern Studies. CONTINUED PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR MORE PHOTOS OF JOHN AND DOCUMENTATION OF HIS EXTENSIVE RESUME
Joe
Nick	Nick Voge Nick is a native of Southern California, where he spent his youth racing motorcycles and flying hang gliders. He then went on to live and work in both Germany and Japan, and he speaks both languages fluently. A lifelong interest in aviation led him to Honolulu Soaring, where he has been flying gliders for the past two years. He specializes in scenic and aerobatic rides in the language of your choice!
Paul
Tyler	Tyler Westhoff Age - 23 Born in Kansas. Raised in Arizona. Moved to Hawaii – March of 2005 Ratings – Commercial airplane and glider pilot; instructor for gliders Reasons for flying – the view Since I was toddler I always found the way to get the best possible view, and, to the dismay of my mother, that usually meant climbing the highest thing I could find. It started with roof tops, then I discovered radio towers, and after that, mountain tops. But it wasn’t until I was being shuttled in a Cessna 185 on skis for a mountaineering trip on Denali that I realized what I had been missing with aviation. An airplane gives you the ultimate vantage point. I got my private airplane license in Alaska that same summer. After moving to Hawaii to fly gliders, I became fascinated with aerobatics. Aerobatics adds a whole new dimension to the way we see. What other way can you look UP at the ocean. The ultimate, of course, is to look up and see the dark body of a humpback whale submerged in the deep blue of the pacific above you. That’s a sight I think everyone should see.