My City August 2022

BY PETER HINTERMAN PHOTOS PROVIDED BY GFPA

A random ier on a bulletin board was all Greater Flint Pilots Association (GFPA) President Eric Johnson needed to see. “After earning my pilot’s license in Owosso, I was looking for a little bit more freedom to y,” he recalls. “I remembered a ier for the GFPA I had on a bulletin board. ey were just what I was looking for.” Before the GFPA, Johnson was renting planes at the Owosso ight school where he earned his license, but they were always in use by students and instructors. He could only y an hour here or there and longer trips were out of the question. At GFPA, trips of a week or more aren’t uncommon and it’s not unusual to check out a plane, y to Mackinac Island for lunch and head home for dinner. “ at’s called the $200 dollar hamburger trip,” Johnson laughs. 

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