Joe is a 73 year old retired attorney from Moorestown, New Jersey, presently transplanted to South Florida. He is a 2300-hour commercial pilot with an instrument rating and flies a 1991 black and white A36 Bonanza. Home base is F45. Joe earned his PPL in 1995 at age 53 and is married to his bride of 51 years, Diane, a frequent flyer. Joe’s present aircraft is his second Bonanza and fourth airplane, having owned a Piper Arrow and a Piper Dakota before switching to the Beech line. He is the present record holder of the National Aeronautics Association "Speed Over a Recognized Course" for a flight from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, to Jacksonville, Florida, in a Beech Bonanza.