I'm the new CFI here at NCFS. I'm new to the Erie area and I'm excited to start flying up here. I am a CFI, CFII, SEL. I am a pilot who has graduated from Spartan College of Aeronautics in Tulsa, Oklahoma. I come from the mountains of Asheville, North Carolina, where my passion of flying was born. I come from a long line of pilots and even though I started out in an electrical engineering path, I came back to flying. I spent some time in Charleston, South Carolina while I was attending The Citidel . Later on I returned to that town when me and my wife, Julianne , join hands in marriage in their pirate theme wedding on halloween. My hobbies range from the outdoor activities of disc golf, hiking, sports to the indoor ones of games, reading, and movies. I love pretty much anything with history or science fiction. I'm available almost anytime. If there's a plane and acceptable weather, then I'm there. Feel free to email me at taylorna@gmail.com or call me on my cell at (828) 242-2369

Thanks, Nick Taylor

I am a recent graduate from K-State majoring in Commercial Aviation. My long standing dream of becoming a pilot was fulfilled when I was 18. Since then, I've aquired my commercial multi-egine, CFI, and CFII certificates. Aside from flying, I enjoy traveling, camping, skiing, and pretty much every other outdoor activity. I'm always interested in doing something new, so if you have any good suggestions on fun activities in the area be sure to let me know! Looking forward to meeting everyone!

Andy Heinlein
CFI

Andy is a part time flight instructor with NCFS and coordinates the summer aviation camps. His full time job is a 7th grade math teacher at Westlake Middle School. He earned his Private Pilots license right here at NCFS in August of 2003 and then attended American Flyers in Cleveland for his Instrument Rating, Commercial license, and Flight Instructor Rating in the summer of 2005. Andy also holds a Tailwheel endorsement, which he received in the summer of 2004. He has over 375 hours of flight time to date. He is happily married with four beautiful children with one more on the way. Some of his other interests are coaching football, spending time with his family and reading about World War II history. He has plans of combining his interest in aviation and education into programs for kids focusing on the airmen and aircraft of the 1940’s in an aviation museum setting.

Bob Williams
CFI/CFII/ATP/MEL/SEL

Robert L. Williams, better known as Bob Williams, has over 28 years experience teaching in most makes and models of training aircraft including NCFS's current 2005 Cessna 172S. Bob is an active pilot with ATP and an active career CFI with not only previous Part 141 assistant chief , Parts 61 & 141 chief flight instructor experience but also Part 135 Check Airman and Part 135 King Air and Seneca II company instructor. In addition, he is available 24/7 for those NCFS pilots who need flights outside the normal business hours, early in the morning, late at night, holidays, and just about any time the schedule permits. As you can see Bob is a highly motivated and an enthusiastic CFI/CFII, both single engine and multi-engine, ready to start training any pilot who needs his assistance.

This enthusiasm for life and dedication to duty began for Bob while still in high school when he enlisted in the U.S. Navy and experienced a summer training cruise as a Navy Seaman aboard a U.S. Navy destroyer that sailed across the turbulent waters of the Atlantic during the summer to the Mediterranean Ocean with ports-of-call of the Azores, Spain and Portugal. Bob then realized that college and the life of a military officer was best suited for him so he then enrolled at Ohio State University and graduated with a five-year degree in aeronautical engineering and a commission as a 2nd Lieutenant, U.S. Marine Corps from the OSU Naval ROTC. While in college on summer training with the Navy ROTC, Bob had the unique experienced of being launched from the carrier USS Hornet in a Navy S-2 aircraft via catapult in the south Pacific, land back again on that same carrier and participate in the recovery of the Apollo 3 space capsule in the South Pacific during his 3rd Class Navy Midshipman training. On his next summer training as a 2nd Class Navy Midshipman, Bob first experienced flying an aircraft including aerobatics in the Navy T-34 Mentor, a straight tail military version of the Beechcraft V-tail Bonanza at NAS Corpus Christi, TX. Then following graduation from The Basic School at Marine Corps Base Quantico, VA, while waiting to start navigator school at NAS Pensacola, FL, Bob earned his private pilot rating from the Pensacola Navy Flying Club in a Cessna 150 in less than 2 months flying twice a day every day. Little did Bob know that his aviation adventure had just begun.

While in the Marine Corps, Bob experienced combat as a bombardier navigator in the all-weather attack Grumman A-6 Intruder. Then fast forward to civilian aviation after five years in the Marine Corps, Bob earned his ATP and type ratings in the Cessna Citation 500 series jet, the Cessna Citation 525 series Citation Jet and the King Air 300/350 turbo-prop, plus experience as a Part 91 corporate pilot in the Beechcraft Baron 58, the Citation Jet CJ2 and the Citation V as well as Part 135 charter pilot in the Cessna 172 and 210, the Piper Arrow, the Piper Seneca II, the Piper Navajo, the C/R and the Chieftain, all the King Air family of turbo-prop aircraft from the 90, 100, 200, 300 and 350 and as recently as 2008 into early 2009, a pilot of an around-the-clock critical care air ambulance company in the Piper Cheyenne II located in the remote gold mining town of Elko, NV. This extensive flight experience has provided Bob the opportunity to fly into the southwest deserts, the high desert of California and Nevada, the hot and humid tropical southeast, the snow belt mid-west and the desolate high density pitch-black winter nights of the Rocky Mountains as well as to land in every state of the U.S. including Alaska and Hawaii plus Canada, the Caribbean Islands, Turks and Caicos, Japan, the Philippines, Thailand, North & South Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and numerous non-stop flights from the west coast to the east coast in the long range Grumman A-6 Intruder. Most recently he realized the experience of a life time as a ferry pilot on a flight in a King Air 350 across the Northern Atlantic starting in Texas with landings in New Brunswick, Greenland, Iceland, Ireland, Austria, Turkey, Iraq and Afghanistan followed by 2 tours of duty flying the King Air 350 as an ISR civilian government contractor pilot and crew member in the combat zone of Afghanistan.

As a result of his aeronautical engineering and aviation education, military training and flight experience, Bob is highly organized, detailed oriented and has excellent avionics and computer skills. His goal is now to remain flying in the friendly skies of the United States and continue his aviation career as a professional flight instructor teaching aviation, providing flight instruction and preparing the current and next generation of pilots for 21st Century aviation as well as demonstrating and providing the freedom that only flying an aircraft can provide. If you'd like to take advantage of Bob's wide open availability now as the flying season changes over to fall and winter with flying at its best, schedule your next training flight, recurrency or flight review with him and experience Bob's easy going, low stress, hassle free, fun way of flight training.

Bob's favorite color is blue, his sign is Pisces, his favorite car is the Corvette, his favorite movie is Top Gun, his favorite movie star is pilot and DeHavilland Beaver owner Harrison Ford, his favorite book is Flight of the Intruder, his favorite aircraft is the Beechcraft T-34 Mentor and his motto is the same as the U.S. Marine Corps, Semper Fidelis! (Always faithful)