GREG BROWN's love for flying is obvious to anyone who follows his popular Flying Carpet podcast or who has read his other books, The Savvy Flight Instructor, Flying Carpet: The Soul of an Airplane, Job Hunting for Pilots, and You Can Fly! or his long-running "Flying Carpet" column in AOPA Flight Training magazine. An active pilot since 1971 and flight instructor since 1979, Greg's credentials include 2000 Industry/FAA National Flight Instructor of the Year, the 1999 NATA Excellence in Pilot Training Award, and the first ever Master Flight Instructor. He was recently inducted into the Flight Instructor Hall of Fame and earned the FAA's Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award. Mr. Brown holds an ATP certificate with Boeing 737 type rating and Flight Instructor certificate with all fixed-wing aircraft ratings. He has flown professionally in both scheduled and corporate aviation.

MARK J. HOLT, a captain for a major airline, soloed at age sixteen and has logged more than 23,000 hours in over 40 years of flying. He holds an Airline Transport Pilot (ATP) Certificate with Boeing 757/767, Airbus 319/320/321, and BAE Jetstream 41 type ratings and a Flight Engineer (Turbojet) Certificate. His professional aviation career includes extensive flight and ground school instructing experience and service as a check airman for a large regional airline. Mark is also co-author of another popular aviation book, Air Carrier Operations.