Aaron Dabney
Presenter
Aaron Dabney, CFII, has been a full-time flight instructor since 2009. He owns and operates Waco Flight Training in Waco, Texas, and has a passion for marrying modern pedagogy with traditional stick-and-rudder flight training. In addition, he serves as an adjunct lecturer and assistant chief ground instructor for the Aviation Sciences program at Baylor University. Aaron is a 4-time Master Flight Instructor, and is an active volunteer with NAFI in several capacities across the organization's mission.
Tom Dorl has been flying since he was 16 years old learning at an Air Force aero club in New Jersey. It was there flying C-152s, that Tom cemented his love for flying. He attended an aviation university in Ohio and secured a commission in the USAF along with a degree in Aerospace Technology. Tom completed fixed wing and rotary wing pilot training flying the T-37, T-38, UH-1 and HH-60G and was one of the first operational USAF pilots to fly the HH-60G Pave Hawk. Tom served over 25 years in the USAF flying mainly combat search and rescue missions in many overseas locations saving the lives of others; additionally, he taught powered flight to USAF Academy Cadets in the Cirrus 20 (T-53). He has been an active flight instructor for over 22 years, is an active FAASTeam Representative and presenter, CAP member and published author. He holds a CMEL, CFI, CFII in both single engine airplanes and helicopters as well as a Pt 107 UAS Commercial certificate.
AARON DABNEY - PRESENTER
Aaron Dabney has been a full-time CFI since 2009 and operating Waco Flight Training at KACT in Waco, TX since 2013. He leads a team of four flight instructors, and spends most of his working hours enabling and mentoring those developing professionals.
He holds Flight Instructor Airplane and Instrument Flight Instructor credentials, and to date has well over 5,500 hours' dual given. He also serves as an adjunct lecturer in Aviation Sciences at Baylor University, where he earned his Master's Degree in Education in 2009.
Aaron has earned the prestigious NAFI Master CFI accreditation four times and participates as an instructor in the NAFI Professional Development Program in addition to serving on NAFI's Master CFI Board of Review. TOM DORI - HOST Tom Dorl has been flying since he was 16 years old learning at an Air Force aero club in New Jersey. It was there flying C-152s, that Tom cemented his love for flying. He attended an aviation university in Ohio and secured a commission in the USAF along with a degree in Aerospace Technology. Tom completed fixed wing and rotary wing pilot training flying the T-37, T-38, UH-1 and HH-60G and was one of the first operational USAF pilots to fly the HH-60G Pave Hawk.
Tom served over 25 years in the USAF flying mainly combat search and rescue missions in many overseas locations saving the lives of others; additionally, he taught powered flight to USAF Academy Cadets in the Cirrus 20 (T-53). He has been an active flight instructor for over 22 years, is an active FAASTeam Representative and presenter, CAP member and published author.
He holds a CMEL, CFI, CFII in both single engine airplanes and helicopters as well as a Pt 107 UAS Commercial certificate. Tom serves as a member of the NAFI Board of Directors.
