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Chuck Vincent

I had a love for aviation long before I ever took my first lesson on July 27, 1971 on a grass strip in Houston. The seventies and eighties were filled with mixtures of aviation jobs, from flying Navajo’s, Cessna 185 amphibian, Piper Cheyenne’s, and included a short career with Eastern Airlines on Boeing 757’s until its demise. Following the shut down of Eastern, I took a short break then got back into flying in 1993 flying charter. Then 1999 brought the purchasing of my own aircraft from Beach Baron 58, to Citation 501. I was having a great time with aviation, but I was missing something I really wanted to do, aerobatics!

In 2002 I had tried my first aerobatics in a 1976 American Champion KCAB I purchased, and in Feb of 2003, I purchased my first serious aerobatic aircraft, a bran new Extra 300L “N41CV”. Wow was all I could say! As I was shopping for a used Extra which I couldn’t find, an owner told me what I could expect when I had gotten one; “It will change you life forever”, and It did!

I set out to teach myself aerobatics, which I will say at the onset; was and is the wrong way to do it. But, if you’re going to do it there is not a better aircraft to do it in than an Extra 300L. I read every book and watched every video I could get my hands on. Being 99% self taught is a long and difficult road to take, and it will take you two to three times longer to get to a particular point being self taught, as it will with instruction. I don’t think it’s any more dangerous, for all my practice is at 3000 to 5000 feet AGL, it just takes a lot longer to get pass a lot of it without someone with experience there with you.

In Dec of 07, I purchased my second Extra 300L “N43CV”, and it feels great being back in airshows. All I can say is wow, and I am having lots of fun! I would recommend to all pilots to go out and take an aerobatic lesson, “it might just change your life for ever”, and it will make you a better pilot.

I am one really lucky guy to be doing this!

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Aviation Stats;

ATP 10,000+ hrs

Multi Engine

Single Engine Sea

Rotorcraft

CE500 Type

Solo Aerobatics Extra 300 - Level 1 Waver

 Chuck

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