Tim Adelman
Tim started flying with his father in 1982.  Two months before his 16th birthday, Tim started taking flying lessons.  His goal was to solo before he got his driver's license.  On the morning of his 16th birthday he soled at Frederick Municipal Airport and then walked over to the MVA to get his driver's license. During college Tim added his instrument rating and commercial rating. While in law school, he became a certificated flight instructor.  He has been instructor for the past seven years and now focuses on light sport aircraft.
 

Bernie Busby
Bernie Busby comes to Chesapeake Sport Aircraft with over 40 years flight experience.  His logbook shows instruction at Mitchelville, MD airport beginning in 1967.  Bernie graduated from US Army Flight Training in June 1968 and served 2 combat tours in Southeast Asia.  He retired from the Army Reserve as an airplane and helicopter pilot and is also a retired FAA inspector,  He holds a CFI in single- and multi-engine airplanes, helicopters, gliders and is a CFII in airplanes and helicopters.  He is an ATP typed in the Beech King-Air 350, Citation 650, Boeing BV-235 (civilian Chinook) and a few other helicopters.  Bernie spends some of his free time as an aviation safety consultant and is an accredited IS-BAO auditor, a business aviation flight department accreditation.  He has been a member of several aviation trade associations.  He is also hold a Merchant Mariner's certificate as a captain.  Bernie and his wife, Gina live in Ocean View, DE.

David Frostbutter
Dave’s his first airplane ride was soon after birth.  He spent many hours (maybe more upside down than right side up) as a passenger with his father.  Needless to say he was smitten at an early age.  He obtained his Private license in 1970, the commercial, instrument and CFI in 1976, the CFII in 2001 and has been an active flight instructor since 1976.  Dave has worked as an Aerospace Engineer at The Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory for 34 years and currently working in the R&D area with the FAA.  He was a team member that developed the ADS-B technology which is now in the nation-wide implementation phase.  Flying has been a life-long passion and looks forward to many more years in the air, sharing the experience with all who want a higher education.
 

Barry Gillman
In the eighties, Barry joined a small high-tech startup company where the CEO and a number of other executives were all pilots and flew on company business.  Barry had had a lifelong passion for aviation and, at the urging of his fellow associates, went on to get his Private, Instrument and Commercial ratings.  As a regional sales manager Barry flew almost daily in the Northeast corridor in performance of his duties, first in rental aircraft and then in his own Piper Archer, always reimbursed by the company.  (Sort of a dream situation!)  In 2002 Barry semi-retired to the Eastern shore to pursue his second and third careers: in real estate as a commercial realtor and in politics as a St. Michaels Town Commissioner.  In the process of moving here he sold the plane and ceased flying.  The passion for flying never left him and in 2006 he began training for his CFI.  He is now pursuing his fourth career as an instructor with Chesapeake Sport Pilot, LLC and wishing he'd done it ten years sooner.
 

Neal Guernsey
Neal was focused on flying from an early age.  He joined Civil Air Patrol in high school just to get involved.  As a midshipman at the Naval Academy, he earned his degree in Aerospace Engineering and also helped run the Midshipmen Flight Training Program in 1975.  He was the first student to earn his Private Certificate from Friendship Flying Service at BWI under that program.  He earned his Naval Aviator wings in 1976 and joined the fleet flying the A-7E Corsair off the USS Kitty Hawk (216 Carrier landings, but who’s counting?).  Neal began instructing in A-7s for the Navy in 1980 at NAS Lemoore, CA.  He earned his civilian CFI the same year and became President of the NAS Lemoore Flying Club.  He enjoyed teaching in the same T-34B that he had soloed in Pensacola five years earlier.  Neal left Active Duty in 1982 and joined the Reserves.  He spent three years flying the UC-12B (Beechcraft King Air) from Andrews AFB.  He has since retired from the Navy Reserves.  After spending time in corporate America he has returned to his love of teaching flying.  He recently taught midshipmen at Lee Airport through the Navy Annapolis Flight Center and has now decided to share the fun of Sport Flying.  During the week, Neal works for the company that produces Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey and Disney On Ice.
 

Gregg LaFave
Gregg started taking flying lessons in 1984 and soloed in a 1946 Taylorcraft BC12D. (A light sport plane!) before moving on to Stinsons and other larger aircraft. He earned his instrument rating at the Andrews AFB flying club in 1989 and later attended ATP Manassas where he earned his commercial-multi and CFI/II/MEI ratings and was able to Citation Jet.  Gregg has served as a flight instructor for the Civil Air Patrol and worked as a flight instructor at various schools throughout the area.  He currently works at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab and lives in Bowie with his wife Mary and 7year old son Justin.
 

TomMcKnight
Tom’s passion for airplanes began in the 1950’s when his uncle, a former Tuskegee Airman raised on the Eastern Shore, landed his surplus WWII aircraft on a grass strip near his home in Ridgely, Maryland. He soloed in 1972 at College Park airport while studying aerospace engineering at the University of Maryland.  After graduation, Tom attended navigator training and was assigned to the old Strategic Air Command as a KC-135 tanker navigator.  He still has fond memories of navigating over the ocean at 420 knots with only a sextant and dead reckoning!  After retiring from the Air Force in 1994, he joined the faculty of Delaware State University as Chairman of the Airway Science Department. For the past couple of years, he has taught algebra at the same middle school he attended 45 years ago.  Tom holds an airline transport pilot certificate, Gold Seal CFII/MEI, and advanced ground instructor certificates.
 

Dan Meier
Dan began flight lessons in 1956 at New Hanover county airport near Wilmington NC with Mr. Warren K. Pennington, who soloed his jenny in 1919 and during the 1920s made a young man's living barnstorming around the country.  After college, military service, marriage, Dan resumed the process of earning a private pilot certificate in 1971 at Lee Airport in Annapolis and by 1973 had acquired a commercial and flight instructor certificates. From 1974 until 1987  he served as an instructor for Annapolis flying service.  In 1984 he was granted a designated pilot examiner authority by the Baltimore Flight Standards District Office (FSDO) and served in that capacity until 1987 when he was hired by the FAA and trained as an Aviation Safety Inspector for flight operations.  He retired from the FAA in July 2006.  Dan holds an airline transport pilot certificate, glider and single-engine seaplane ratings and a certificates for single, multi-engine airplane and instrument and a basic ground instruction.
 

Colin Russell
Colin began his flying career the very young age of one month old. Shortly after he was born, he was riding on his father’s lap in the front of their Twin Comanche. Of course, over the years this would inevitably become Colin’s true passion as it had been his father’s and grandfather’s.  Colin grew up locally in the Annapolis area and graduated from University of Maryland in 2005 with a B.S. in Aviation Management. Soon after moving back to the area, he worked for the Navy Annapolis Flight Center at ANP instructing the midshipmen how to fly prior to U.S. Navy flight school through the IFS program. Colin has since accumulated over 2,000 hours and is joining the Maryland Air National Guard out of Edgewood.
 

Bob Snyner
Bob started flying in July of 1973 and obtained his private license in April of 1974. Bob became interested in the lighter side of aviation in 2003 by building and flying a Challenger II aircraft. Obtaining a seaplane rating in 2005 and converting the Challenger II to amphibious operations renewed a passion for flying while opening new experiences.  Bob began teaching Sport Pilot and Ultralight flying in 2006. Currently an EAA Chapter president, Bob has completed three experimental aircraft and is currently building his fourth - the RV7. Teaching people to fly has been one of the most rewarding aviation experiences for Bob.
 

Chuck Wilson
Chuck started flying in 1959 at College Park and obtained his private pilot license in September 1960 at Lee Airport outside Annapolis.  After military service, he used the G. I. Bill to obtain his commercial and airline transport pilot as well as flight instructor ratings for airplane, multi-engine airplane, instrument, and ground instructor.  He began his flight instructing career at the Freeway Airport in Bowie in 1968 and taught there until 1980.  He soon moved back to Lee Airport to continue instructing and was promoted to Chief Flight Instructor in 1994, when he was able to retire from the Capital Police Force and resume instructing full time.  Chuck's resume also includes such interesting adventures as flying Stearman's in Mississippi at Johnny Dorr's Agricultural School, seaplanes in Florida at Jack Brown's Seaplane School, at J-3 Cubs at College Park.
 

Joe Weiss
Joe Weiss Began flying in 1965 and soon soloed in a J3 Cub at the Pitman Airport in New Jersey.  He obtained his private pilot certificate in January of 1969 immediately before leaving for Vietnam. Joe served in the U. S. Air Force between 1968 and1972 where he earned his A&P license.  Upon returning from Vietnam, he earned his commercial, instrument, multiengine, and flight instructor rating and became a part time Co-Pilot on a Shorts Skyvan and also worked as an independent flight instructor.   Between 1985 and 1995 Joe was unable to fly due to his son’s illness and instead drove a tractor trailer tank truck for Chemical Leaman Tank Lines where he earned the 500,000 Mile Safe Driving Award.  In 1999 he returned to aviation as a traffic patrol pilot out of the Philadelphia North East Airport.  Today, when not flight instructing for Chesapeake Sport Pilot, Joe flies a Fed Ex Cessna Caravan for Wiggins Airways out of BWI.
 

Helen Woods
Helen has been a passionate general aviation pilot since 1998.  A biologist by training, she spent several years serving as a search and rescue pilot and managing a search and rescue training program prior to accepting a job as a wildlife survey pilot.   Today, as flight instructor and manager of Chesapeake Sport Pilot, she is dedicated to sharing her love of aviation with others through affordable, quality flight training.

Bob Wright
Bob started flying in 1994 receiving flight instruction from his son who has now moved on to bigger airplanes as an airline captain. To date we can discern no psychological damage from the role reversal between father and son.  After adding commercial and instrument ratings Bob became a CFI in 2004 and has been an active instructor since that time.