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Boots has written multiple articles for Mentor magazine\ncovering topics such as flight maneuvers, the teaching process, and the\nresponsibilities of flight instructors. His expertise in these areas and many\nothers help assure that NAFI\u2019s publications meet the highest standards in journalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Boots is his full name, not a nickname. He was born and\nraised in Hollywood, California, which he said is usually enough of an\nexplanation. Boots earned his private pilot certificate in 1968, and his\ninstrument, commercial, and multi-engine ratings several years later. He went\non to earn his CFI, CFII, and multi-engine CFI ratings about 20 years ago and\nhas also been an A&P\/IA mechanic for about 25 years, but has never flown or\nworked on airplanes for a living.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Most of his flying was based at Van Nuys Airport (KVNY) and\nhe owned a Cardinal RG for a decade. He has flown in many parts of the world,\nincluding Central America, Africa, and Europe. Boots raced motorcycles as an\nAMA professional road racer and still street rides. Over the years, he has built\nseveral successful companies. Boots was on the Rare Bear racing team (when it\nwas winning, he points out) at the Reno National Championship Air Races. He is\nstill active as a flight instructor and lives in Knoxville, Tennessee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cBoots is an incredibly prolific writer who has a passion\nfor sharing his stories, experiences, and expertise with fellow flight\ninstructors,\u201d said Beth Stanton, NAFI\u2019s Director of Publications and Editor.\n\u201cNAFI members have greatly benefitted from his engagement and dedication to\nsharing his tribal knowledge with the NAFI community.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe most important thing I have learned as a CFI is how\nlittle I knew before I started instructing,\u201d Boots said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The National Association of Flight Instructors (NAFI) has announced Boots as the winner of the Greg J. Laslo Excellence in Writing Award. This award is presented to an individual or organization that has made a significant contribution to NAFI publications through content in Mentor magazine, eMentor digital newsletter, NAFI NOTAMs blog, and other industry outlets. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23258,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23256\/revisions\/23258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}