Certified Flight Instructor | Flight & Ground Training | Private, Instrument, Commercial, CFI, CFII & Multi-Engine

Find out more about Juan camilo

• 1) What age did you start playing sport? Tell us about this time or moment in your life.

  1) I began flying when I was 18 years old, just fresh out of high school. I had been recently inspired by a friend to pursue a career in aviation and went into it head first with no prior experience. I don't regret that decision at all.

• 2) What are your favourite sports; those that you practice at a high level, a simple hobby, and a sport that you'd still like to discover?

  2) There's many aspects I enjoy about flying, one of them is the freedom of being able to go anywhere without any restrictions in regards to needing a road laid out to reach some place. If there's an airport and you want to go there just fly and nothing is stopping you.

• 3) What gives you the motivation and passion to pursue your sport?

  3) The motivation to pursue flying is the satisfaction I get when I am able to get in that cockpit and fly. There is nothing else in the world I see myself doing, this love for aviation is what leads me to want to talk about it and by extension teach.

• 4) Do you have a sporting achievement that you're particularly proud of?

  4) My biggest achievement in my aviation career I would say is having passed every single checkride without a failure in my career. I owe that to my instructors who helped me and trained me to meet above the standard of what a pilot needs to meet.

• 5) How have your achievements and challenges made you a better sportsperson?

  5) My achievements and challenges throughout my career in aviation have been able to keep me humble and remind me that a good pilot is always learning. We cannot stay content and satisfied with the level we are at, we must always pursue to know more so as to when the situation arises that something must be done in the name of safety we have the proper tools and training.

• 6) If you had to go for a jog with a famous athlete, who would you choose? And what questions would you ask them?

  6) If I got the chance to fly with a famous pilot, it would probably be with Alberto Santos Dumont, one of the original pioneers of aviation and I would love to hear what inspired him to pursue aviation that at the time didn't even exist yet, so how do you love or pursue a career in something that hasn't been invented yet.

• 7) How do you help people stay motivated?

  7) Motivation is one of the key factors for learning. According to the fundamentals of flight instruction, motivation lies at the heart of the students' goals, this means it's important that we as instructors find what it is that motivates our students and we must nourish it and make that motivation grow. We cannot give motivation but we can encourage it in our students to allow them to obtain their motivation. There are many ways to do this and it really depends on the student.

• 8) What makes you a Superprof in sports?

  8) What makes me a superprof in flying is my experience. I have 3 years of flight instructing experience and over 60 students throughout my career and I can say that as much as I have taught my students to fly, they have taught me how to be patient, compassionate, thoughtful and showed me what a good instructor looks like. Whether you're just starting in aviation or at the end of your studies I can help you achieve your goals.