Mike Kapner

Mike grew up in Colorado and attended the University of Colorado Boulder where he earned a degree in Civil Engineering. After working in the industry for a few years, he decided to pursue his passion of aviation. Mike completed his flight training at Western Air and...

Carl Gallaher

Carl is a Navy Veteran that flew in the back of P-3C Orions for 5 years and then he went to CSU for Construction Management. He worked for Mechanical Contractors for 10 years. He is now on his third career on his way to becoming an airline pilot. He looks forward to...

Ian Forsyth

Ian is a certified flight instructor from Southern California. He graduated from Oregon State University in 2020 and started his aviation career soon afterwards. He is currently serving in the Air National Guard with the 142nd Operations Group for the 123rd Fighter...

Stephen Smith

Stephen graduated from SJSU in Aviation Operations in 2019. After graduating, he obtained his private certificate through Trade Winds Aviation, his instrument and commercial certificate through ATP, and lastly his instructor rating through Advantage Aviation. With...

Niklas Bettinger Archuleta

Niklas grew up flying on a lot of commercial flights which lead to him falling in love with aviation and wanting to become a pilot himself. Having completed all of his licenses/ratings here at Aspen Flying Club, so far he now wants to continue his aviation career by...