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He knows whereof he speaks.
“I have close to 11,000 hours of flying — flying helicopters in the Marine Corps at first, and then I shifted to jets. I was an attache and we flew ambassadors all over Africa.”
Flying lessons
Gatewood and Juan Alfonso, director of operations and chief flight instructor at the Warrenton-Fauquier Flight Center, said that the center can accommodate students who have varied ideas about why they want to learn to fly.
“You can do it just for fun or you can make it a career,” Gatewood said. “You can start a career here at your local airport.”
He then ruminated about some former students.
“I could name a number of local people who started here and are now flying commercial, B-52s, fighters. We have a couple of students right now who are looking forward to getting their licenses here and going into the industry.”
A person has to be 16 years old to solo and 17 to get a private license.
“They can actually fly before they can get a driver’s license,” Alfonso said.
Alfonso, who is from Argentina, said he flew for the first time when he was nine.
“I dreamed about it when I was four,” he said.
He eventually bought his own plane in Argentina and ran a business, giving it up six years
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