About Rod Machado
Who we are
Rod Machado's Credentials
Rod has taught hundreds to fly from the right seat as a Certified Flight Instructor thousands as a classroom instructor 350,000+ through his over 400 aviation articles
100,000+ through his training materials Several million with his flight lessons on MS Flight Simulator.Â
Teaching students, one hour at a time
âMachado is energy,â wrote Capt. Dave Gwinn. âHe is a Psychologist, an educator, a humorist and an entertainer. He is a verbal gymnast and any one (or all four!) of his professional identities may rebound at any time.â
Founder
Rod has degrees in Psychology and Aviation Science is Airline Transport Pilot rated with all fixed wing-flight powered instructor ratings started instructing student pilots full time in 1973 taught grounds schools often to classrooms of 200 starting in 1975 has taught many hundreds of aviation safety seminarsâUS, Canada & Europe has taught hundreds of Flight Instructor Revalidation ClinicsâUS, Canada & Europe 10,000 hours flying were earned the HARD WAYâONE flight instructor hour at a time co-wrote and co-anchored ABCâs Wide World of Flying for five years was the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Associationâs National Flight Instructor Spokesman for 15 years (AOPA is the largest aviation association) asked by Microsoft to design the lessons and be CFI voice for MS Flight Simulator was a columnist for AOPA Pilot magazine for 18 years was a columnist for Flight Training magazine for 25 years personally writes and illustrates all of his own training materialsâunlike some who put their name on employeeâs work uses humor like no other to help you remember the lessons has Tae Kwon Do and Hapkido black belts and 20 years experience in Gracie Jujitsu (Maybe why Rod never has difficulty collecting his instructor fees.)
