Member Gary Farrell will be the featured speaker at the SLAC monthly meeting on Monday May 18, 2009

His career spanned 30 years of helicopter and fixed wing flying including the LA County Sheriffs Department (patrol, surveillance, rescue and prisoner transport), TV and Motion Picture work, LA News coverage from the 84 Olympics, and the Americas cup, NASCAR coverage, car pursuits, fires, floods, earthquakes, riots; owning and operating 3 Air Carrier Certificates in California and Hawaii, owning and operating 30 aircraft with 75 employees.  The pilots antic's and the good and not so good days of the business.

I can speak to a wide range of involvement including how I started my Helicopter company moving $Billions of dollar in bank securities every day. My 12,000 hours have included two accidents due to maintenance issues, two on board fires, 4 different engine failures (one of the crashes that was on the roof of the B of A building in downtown Los Angeles, at night) and a variety of experiences, included with some photos that I can poster board and with some aircraft you have perhaps seen on TV.

I look forward to sharing and hope the members will enjoy my little ride along in the aviation world.

Gary Farrell Gary and his wife, Kim Kubsch