Sue is an accomplished flight instructor, physicist, engineer, and data scientist. For more than twenty years she has been dedicated to helping others bring their dreams of flying and instructing to life. Her specialties include tail-wheel flying, spin training and gliders. She founded a successful glider club and has competed twice in the Air Race Classic.
Sue received her PhD in Physics from Cornell in 1992. Shortly afterwards, she saw a sign for an aviation ground school and signed up. She started flying in 1996 and earned her flight instructor certificate a few years later. She has been an active instructor ever since, while pursuing her other career tracks.
Sue has earned and used every instructor rating for fixed wing aircraft (airplanes and gliders). Sue has received advanced training in aerobatics, glider aerobatics, and flight test. With her background in physics, her spin-training course is sought out by many candidate instructors.
Outside of the cockpit, Sue has worked as a process engineer building integrated circuits, as an aerospace engineer designing parts for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter engine, and as a data scientist. Her inventions have been awarded numerous US and foreign patents.
She lives in northern New England with her husband and a house full of cats. Her desire is to retire as a crazy cat lady.