Matt Payne after landing at Winona on his first solo cross country. According to Matt, Winona is a cool little airport down in the river valley. Congrats Matt!

Congratulations are in order for member David Tramm on the successful completion of his Commercial Pilot Checkride at KANE with DPE Steve Anderson.  Well done David!!

Congratulations to Sam Vandeputte on his first solo April 7th. His CFI Mark Jaeger said it was a beautiful sunny morning and Sam did 3 nice landings at KANE. Great accomplishment, way to go Sam!

Please join me in congratulating Jeff Long as he successfully passed his Commercial Pilot Checkride today with FAA Examiner Andy Lott.  CFI is just around the corner…….

Jeff and Andy after the checkride

CFI George Felix congratulates Jeff after his successful checkride

Congratulations to Gopher’s newest private pilot, Alex Winkelman.  Alex passed his check ride today and according to his CFI Mark Jaeger did a great job on both the oral and flying portions of his practical test and worked very hard to achieve this goal. Now it’s time for some fun flying and on to additional ratings!

CFI Mark Jaeger congratulates Alex Winkelman after his checkride.

Alex Winkelman and CFI Mark Jaeger transition through MSP class bravo airspace on a beautiful February night.

US Bank Stadium

Runway 12R @ KMSP

On 2/11/2017 Gopher Members took N8432L on a XC trip to KGDB to visit the Fagen Fighters WWII Museum.

(http://www.fagenfighterswwiimuseum.org/)

If you have never been, it’s quite a display. Highly recommend.

Please join me in congratulating Gopher member Matt Payne on his first solo today! His CFI Mark Jaeger said it was a beautiful sunny afternoon and Matt did 3 smooth landings at Crystal. Way to go Matt!

Congratulations are in order to Gopher’s newest IFR pilot, Paul Meehl.  Paul braved the cold and wind today at ANE with DPE Barb Mack and came out with a new certificate.  Great job Paul!!