Andy Rolli
Flight School Manager
 Andy
Rolli fell in love with flying in his native
Philadelphia, PA where as a child he watched
majestic Lockheed Constellations going about
their business at PHL. His favorite TV show
was “Sky King”; who flew around the American
southwest fighting the evil that men do in
his Cessna 310B.
Andy spent 34 years in insurance and
financial services industry as an agency
owner with clients in PA, DE, and NC. He has
two married sons and two grandsons.
February 1, 2004, he soloed at PTI and has
since added his Instrument, Commercial and
AGI ratings. A recent graduate from GTCC’s
aviation management degree program, Andy has
time in Cessna, Cirrus, Diamond, Liberty,
Mooney, and Piper aircraft. CFI ratings are
next in line and ATP as his future goal.
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Rob Gault
Chief Flight Instructor
CFI/CFII/ATP
 Robert
Gault is a second generation pilot. Like his
father before him, Rob initially pursued his
passion for flying in the US Air Force. His
military career included working as a ground
maintenance technician on RF-4(C) Phantoms,
and finished as an instructor/evaluator on a
special operation C-130. During his 14 years
of service Rob served during the first
Persian Gulf War and flew 30+ combat
missions over Bosnia. After separating from
the military, Rob focused on professional
flying by completing his instrument rating,
commercial, multi-engine, CFI and CFII. For
two years, Rob worked at a large part 141
flight school in Arlington Texas, serving as
both a flight instructor and assistant chief
pilot. This experience led him to complete
his ATP and begin airline flying. Initially,
Rob flew BE-1900’s for United Express in and
around Denver, Colorado. He then moved to
fly the EMB-120 and CL-65 for Delta
Connection. He upgraded to Captain in three
years, and flew extensively throughout the
United States, Canada, Mexico and the
Bahamas. At the beginning of 2008 he moved
to corporate flying, securing a PIC position
flying a G-IV for a Fortune 500 company. It
was here he gained extensive international
experience flying to Europe, Mexico and
multiple locations throughout the Caribbean,
Central and South America. Since then Rob
has continued flying the G-IV while working
to finish his Bachelor degree in Aeronautics
at Liberty University. Rob brings nearly
7,000 hours of professional flying
experience to TAA. He holds an ATP, CFI, and
CFII. He has over 800 hours of instruction
given and holds PIC type ratings in the G-IV
and CL-65.
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MayCay Beeler
Flight instructor
CFI, CFII, ATP
FAASTEAM Rep.
AOPA Airport Support
 As a Co-Host for a popular
syndicated TV Show,
MayCay Beeler learned to fly for a
television assignment. In a promotion to
encourage viewers to follow in MayCay’s
footsteps, General Aviation Manufacturers
Association (GAMA) gave her the opportunity
to fly free through first solo, in exchange
for television coverage. Little did GAMA
know that MayCay would eventually go on to
earn her Airline Transport Pilot Certificate
and become a world record-breaking pilot.
As an award-winning
journalist, MayCay has produced many
national TV features on aviation. They
include flying with General Chuck Yeager,
Voyager pilots Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager;
competing in a transcontinental air race;
skydiving with the Navy Seals; flying mock
air combat over Southern California; and
more.
 MayCay
is a Flight Instructor (CFI, CFII) and an
appointed FAA Aviation Safety Team (FAASTEAM)
Representative for the Greensboro, NC
Region. She is the Aircraft Owners and
Pilots Association’s (AOPA) Airport Support
Network (ASN) volunteer for Greensboro,
North Carolina’s Piedmont Triad
International Airport. In 2002, MayCay was
named FAA Aviation Safety Counselor of the
Year for the Southern Region. For over a
decade, she has served as a volunteer flight
instructor at the annual Greensboro area
WINGS WEEKEND pilot proficiency safety
program. She has emceed pilot appreciation
banquets and promotes aviation safety
events.
On 9-11, after the attacks on
America, MayCay appeared on-camera as an
aviation consultant in newscasts on WXII-TV,
the local NBC-TV network affiliate in
Winston-Salem, NC.
MayCay has joined forces with
the FAA to host local pilot safety programs
and events, including the AOPA Airport Watch
Program. There pilots learn to protect their
home airports from terrorism. Combining her
passion for aviation with her journalism
expertise, MayCay helps emcee air shows, and
spreads the good news about General Aviation
through newscasts, programs and reports. She
appears as the on-camera host in “121.5”, a
popular video on pilot/controller emergency
communications. MayCay also hosts various
FAA and AOPA Air Safety Foundation pilot
videos including “Maneuvering Flight”. She
has appeared in national TV commercials for
the “Be-A-Pilot” Campaign, and in a pilot
program as host of a new TV Series.
MayCay is an active member of
the Kitty Hawk 99s, The International
Organization of Women Pilots. She has
represented AOPA, the world’s largest
civilian pilot organization, as an Air
Safety Foundation Instructor, teaching
seminars nationwide. Formally, MayCay has
served as a Part 135 Piedmont Charter
Pilot. She was an applicant in NASA’s
Journalist-in-Space Project, and a recipient
of the Judy Resnick Aviation Scholarship.
She has undergone regional jet airline pilot
training. MayCay presently works as a free
lance Flight Instructor. For the past
decade, the majority of MayCay’s flight time
has included flying Part 91 Pilot Service in
light complex single engine pistons for a
local business man.
MayCay says she loves flight
instructing and flying passengers because
it is a privilege to share the joy of flight
with others. When not flying the airways,
MayCay can be seen on the airwaves as a TV
Host in local prime time TV Specials for
CBS-TV affiliate WFMY News 2, and as
Spokeswoman in TV Commercials.
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Bill Schwabenton
Flight Instructor
CFI, CFII
 Bill
brings 3500+ hours as corporate pilot to
TAA. Here is a partial list of his
experience:
- International
Operations in 8 other Countries with
Oceanic procedures.
- Category II ILS
approaches down to 100 feet DA and
visibility down to 1200 feet.
- Loves the adventure
of Long Distance international trips,
Twice to Alaska, once to Galapagos
Islands out in the Pacific Ocean,
- 14 trips to the
Jungles of Belize and a recent trip to
French St. Martin, according to Bill
"The friendliest General Aviation
destination I have ever been to -
and do ask me about the French cuisine!"
 Bill
enjoys primary flight training to share that
moment when a new pilot lands the aircraft
for the first time. His favorite saying is,
“If you never make a mistake in flying then
you’ll never know how good right can feel.”
Let’s have some FLYING
adventure!
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Brian Staples
Flight Instructor
CFI, CFII, MEI, AGI, Cirrus Instructor
Gold Seal
Instructor
 Brian
began his love for aviation
as early as he can remember.
It wasn't until the summer before his
junior year when he began flight training.
At the age of 16 he soloed and the day
before his high school graduation he got his
pilot's license.
Brian,
in less than 3 years, recently completed
his associates degree in Career Pilot at
GTCC and his bachelor's degree from
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in
Professional Aeronautics.
Brian
has flying experience in Cessna 172, Piper
Archer, Piper Arrow, Beechcraft Bonanza,
Beechcraft Baron, Liberty, and many more.
Brian is passionate about Flight Instructing
and he enjoys helping others achieve their
goals in aviation.
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Don Ray
Flight Instructor
CFI, CFII, MEI, ATP
 Don
received his private license in 1976. After
jobs in the medical and engineering
profession he decided to get into flying
professionally. He received his instructor
ratings and started teaching in the early
90’s. He was fortunate to be introduced to
George Johnson, the “Bonanza Man” and
started doing Baron and Bonanza schools.
After getting lots of quality Baron and
Bonanza time landed a job with a regional
airline flying a Dash Eight-100. Continuing
to teach as time permits. He presently flies
a regional jet. He teaches in the
traditional instrument platform as will as
G1000 and Avidyne Glass. He was certified as
a Columbia instructor in 2004 in 300-400
series. He does accelerated instrument
programs. He has two wonderful boys, one in
college and one in grad school. He enjoys
tennis, sailing and hiking, and skiing as
time permits.
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 Matt
Richmond
Flight Instructor
CFI, CFII, MEI, AGI, CSIP
Matt started flying almost
two decades ago while in high school. He has
a B.S. in Aviation Management from Florida
Tech. Matt earned the bulk of his ratings
while in college, and attended ATP in
Jacksonville, FL for his instructor ratings.
He most recently completed his Cirrus
Standardized Instructor Training to become
our in house Cirrus factory trained
instructor.
 Matt
has led a multifaceted life. After college
he was commissioned as a Marine Officer.
While in the Marines he met his wife, April.
The two have lived in Florida, California, a
motor home, Mooresville NC, and now
Greensboro is home. The two have managed to
hatch three perfect girls. Matt also spent
time as a professional race car driver, a
hobby store owner, and an indoor go-kart
track operator.
Matt has been with TAA Flight
Training for over a year. When he is not
here at the school, he is riding his bike,
shooting things or having fun with his
family. Come learn to fly in a state of the
art glass cockpit!
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Abram
Hoff
Flight Instructor
CFI
 Abram has always had an interest in flying
and began his pursuit when he chose to do
learning to fly for his senior project in
high school. He logged time up until his
initial solo for the project and knew this
was something he wanted to pursue in the
future as a career. During college he
received his private pilot’s license through
the aviation program at Caldwell Community
College. He continued flying while attending
Appalachian State University, but only
enough to stay current. After college he
worked for his Dad doing construction, but
constantly found himself looking to the sky
at every plane that flew over the job sites.
In the summer of 2010 he decided it was time
to finish up his ratings. Flying out of
Asheville Regional Airport, he received his
instrument rating and started time building
for his commercial. He finished up his
single & multi engine commercial in
Minnesota and got his CFI.
Abram instructed at the Mount Pleasant
Regional Airport working for Coastal
Aviation, teaching in Cessna 172’s. He
recently moved to Greensboro to be closer to
family and friends. With flight experience
in Cessna 150/152/172/172RG, Liberty, Piper
Arrow, and Piper Seminole Abram looks
forward to helping students meet their
goals!
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Victor
Dukuh
Flight Instructor
CFI, CFII, MEI
 Victor
can remember falling in love with aviation
as a little boy. He had the privilege of
coming from a family that produced some of
the first airline pilots in Ghana and
Africa. He remembers getting to fly jump
seat from Ghana to London and JFK, and
watching his uncles command the DC-10- 30.
He knew
then in those early days that he couldn’t do
anything better than join the elite group of
men his extended family had molded.
It was a
tough road getting to where he is now having
come from a country that had no flight
school at the time. He however, never gave
up on his childhood dream of becoming a
pilot.
 Victor
moved to the United States in 1999 and in
2005 got his Private Pilot License at
Greensboro Aviation all while working
full-time and going to school part-time. At
some point in time he set his dream of
flying professionally aside, but as time
passed he realized there wasn’t any job that
brought him the happiness that flying did.
So in 2009 he acquired his Private Multi,
Commercial MEI, CFI and CFII within a short
time frame. He is also currently in school
finishing his Associate Degree in Career
Pilot from GTCC as well as attending Embry
Riddle Aeronautical University to finish up
his Bachelor’s in Professional Aeronautics.
Victor believes there isn’t anything in this
world that can’t be accomplished if you put
your mind to it. If it’s motivation you are
seeking, he is here to motivate you.
He is
currently married and lives in Greensboro
with his wife, daughter and their bad dog
named “lucky.”
Victor
has experience flying different birds. A few
include the Cessna 172, Piper Archer, Piper
Arrow, Beech Bonanza, Baron 58, and the
Piper Seminole. Victor is looking forward to
instructing and helping motivate anyone
achieve their dreams.
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Michael Hughes
Flight Instructor
CFI, AGI
 Flying
is a passion. A passion that stems from the
first time you climb into a cockpit. Michael
fell in love with aviation in the seat of an
open-cockpit biplane soaring over Kitty
Hawk, NC. He was very young and recalls
having to stand up in the seat in his
father’s watchful arms to enjoy the bird’s
eye view. This instantly ignited a fire for
aviation and he decided he yearned to become
a pilot.
At age 15,
he began his flying career, as most do, with
a discovery flight. His flying career
started in small airport in Morristown, TN.
Many know this airport to be home to
aviation legend Evelyn “Mama Bird” Johnson.
He later worked under her and learned the
basics of airport operations. He took a
break from flying for the remainder of his
high school education but the desire to fly
had already been planted. Once he graduated
high school, he completed GTCC’s Career
Pilot Associate’s Degree and a Bachelor’s in
Professional Aeronautics from Embry-Riddle
Aeronautical University. While in college he
earned his single-engine commercial
certificate, instrument rating, certified
flight instructor certificate, and advanced
ground instructor rating.
He
received most of his flight experience in a
Cessna 150, Cessna 172, Piper Archer, Piper
Arrow, and Liberty XL-2. He also has flight
experience in an Aeronca Champ, Decathlon,
Van’s RV-6, Piper Cheyenne, and Beechcraft
Bonanza.
He
believes that flight instruction is not just
a job but also a means to share the
experience of aviation and show the student
a completely different world that soars with
the birds.
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