Pride Training Staff

Steve "Puck" Kirik
Steve is Pride's Chief Instructor. A former F-15 Eagle fighter pilot with combat time in the first Gulf War, and over a thousand hours as a T-38 instructor, Steve now flies for a major U.S. air carrier. He has over 12,000 hours of flight time and has been involved with warbirds nearly his whole life. Besides developing our ground and flight syllabi, Steve has probably been responsible for turning out more professionally-trained L-39 aviators than anyone else in the United States. His experience and knowledge are well-known in the L-39 community.

Buck Wyndham
Buck is a long-time warbird pilot with over 12,000 hours of flight time in more than 110 different aircraft types. He flew some of the very first combat missions in the A-10 Thunderbolt II ("Warthog") in Operation Desert Storm, and also did three tours as a T-38 instructor pilot. He is now an airline pilot with a major U.S. carrier. Since 2000, Buck has applied his considerable skills instructing new L-39 aviators and formation pilots, and also performing Test and Functional Check Flights. We're extremely pleased to have this gifted instructor as a part of our staff.

John Morgan
Pride's President/CEO taught his instructors everything they know about flying jets. (He paid the Webmaster to say that.) John also looks pretty damned good in the cockpit, and probably should have been a fighter pilot instead of operating Pride Aircraft. (But we're glad he does.)
 

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