With a sad heart...

Blue skies and tailwinds!

Thanks for your service and passing on your wisdom and experience "paying it forward" here on JC. We are all better for it!

Like so many other aviators who've gone before, I celebrate that you lived rather than mourn that you passed.
 
Blue Skies John. You will be missed here and by the many others whose lives you touched. RIP.
 
Corporate Pilot said:
He was at the top of my list of the JC people that I wanted to meet.
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After reading his bio and seeing his picture, I actually believe I have pushed him out of the gate once or twice here in PHX back when I first started with LCC. The picture included bears a resemblence to an East 757 pilot. Very professional yet friendly on the intercom. Farewell John, I never personally met you, but you were a great contributor to this forum, and your wisdom and experience will truely be missed.
 
I got to have lunch with him and his crew when they were here in IND last winter. An upstanding guy. He will be greatly missed.
 
Just missed meeting him at NBAA last year, figured I would "next year". I am, however, grateful our paths crossed here on JC; I always enjoyed reading his posts. RIP John, and condolences to family and friends.
 
If ever there were someone to read this for...


Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long delirious, burning blue,
I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew -
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untresspassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.
 
John was an amazing user. Great guidance, patient, had a wide swath of experience that he readily shared with others and had a very positive attitude where he could agree with you and still keep you humble, and disagree while never being condescending.

A great loss for aviation this week, but an awesome voice for aviation, fraternity and friendship for over 65 years.

Thanks for finding us, thank you for your friendship and thank you for your guidance and insight to our community.
 
One of the most knowledgeable guys around and very kind. He will be missed here on the board. Saying a prayer for his family.
 
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