The view: Martin State Airport (MTN), Middle River ,Maryland
The pilot: David Smith
The airplane: Cessna 172M
The mission: Flying to the Eastern Shore of Maryland, class delta transition through MTN
The memory: I started my Private Pilot journey at this airport at Middle River Aviation. In the spring I did a fly over of the airport, doing a transition over the class delta airspace due to the DC SFRA and Aberdeen Proving Grounds restricted area. And then three months later I became a one tenth owner of a Cessna 172SP hangared at this same airport. I had no idea at the time that it would become my home airport as an airplane owner.
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David is currently Vice President of Technology and the Information Security Officer for a large healthcare organization in the northeast United States. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Music, a master’s degree in Information Technology Management, a master’s degree in Healthcare Administration Informatics, and is a Certified Information Systems Auditor. David began his journey to private pilot in May of 2020 with a completion to Private Pilot in August 2021. As an ISO David deals with risk and risk mitigation every day in the cybersecurity universe and learned quickly that flying is all about dealing with risk and mitigation. David’s home airport and flight school was and continues to be Harford Air located at Harford County Airport (0W3) in Maryland. David’s CFII Charles Schultz (Chief Flight Instructor) led David through his private pilot journey and is now continuing to provide instruction towards an IFR rating.
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I learned to fly at KMTN in 1977 when Coleman Aviation was in business. Having that long, wide runway was great, but the first time we landed at a 2500 foot runway in the C-150 (N76CA) I was certain we would run off the end! Great memories.