David has been a Flight Instructor for the past 32 years and has Over 17 Thousand Hours of flight time in Airplanes, Helicopters, and gliders.
From the time David Windmiller was a kid living in Brooklyn, he was raring to go— He started flying at age 14.
Before long, he began to experiment. He steered his Piper Cub straight up into the sky and got stuck at the top of the loop, hanging from his seat belt. “Oil and fuel were pouring out of the engine and the propeller stopped,” David recalls. “I held it down long enough to restart the Engine.” At 16, before he even had his pilot’s license, David started training in aerobatics.
Fast forward to his career- Just a year after his 1994 entry into International Aerobatics Club competitions, David was flying in the Unlimited category—where pilots are required to perform the most complex and most difficult compulsory figures of all aerobatic competitions.
Modest about his talent and skill, David feels aerobatics is something in his soul. “It just comes naturally to me,” he says.
In 1999, when offered a sponsorship to return to the field, Windmiller flew at Nationals, and after intense training made the United States Unlimited Aerobatic Team. During his three years on the Team, David flew in the World Aerobatic Championships in France in 2000, finishing in fourth place in the freestyle competition.
Today, along with a number of airshows across the North-East, every Memorial Day weekend, Windmiller thrills the crowds with his amazing aerobatics at the New York Air Show at Jones Beach.
David Windmiller:
David has been a Flight Instructor for the past 32 years and has Over 17,000 Hours of flight time in Airplanes, Helicopters, and gliders. From the time David Windmiller was a kid living in Brooklyn, he was raring to go— He started flying at age 14. Before long, he began to experiment. He steered a rented Piper Cub straight up into the sky and got stuck at the top of A loop, hanging from his seat belt. “Oil and fuel were pouring out of the engine and the propeller stopped,” David recalls. “I held it down long enough to restart the Engine.” ever since then, david has persued his love of flying on all axis.
At 16, before he even had his pilot’s license, David started training in aerobatics. Fast forward to his career- Just a year after his 1994 entry into International Aerobatics Club competitions, David was flying in the Unlimited category—where pilots are required to perform the most complex and most difficult compulsory figures of all aerobatic competitions. Modest about his talent and skill, David feels aerobatics is something in his soul. “It just comes naturally to me,” he says.
In 1999, when offered a sponsorship to return to the field, Windmiller flew at Nationals, and after intense training earned a spot on the United States Unlimited Aerobatic Team. During his three years on the Team, David flew in the World Aerobatic Championships in France in 2000 representing the usa.
Today, along with a number of airshows across the North-East, every Memorial Day weekend, Windmiller thrills the crowds in Long Island with his amazing aerobatics at the New York Air Show at Jones Beach.
DAVID DECIDED TO TAKE THE FLYING SKILLS THAT HE DEVELOPED OVER THE PAST DECADES AND USE THIS KNOWLEDGE TO HELP TODAYS PILOTS BECOME SAFER PILOTS ALONG WITH INTRODUCING THEM TO THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF FLYING ON ALL 3 AXIS.
