Our Team
John Montgomery
Founder
John Montgomery is the Founder of Professional Flight Centre. Since its inception in 1986, John has worked tirelessly to grow the company into one of the country’s largest and most respected flight training institutes. With over 14,000 hours flight time, he is an Airline Transport Pilot License holder, Multi-IFR instructor and architect of the “Pro IFR System”, an efficient and highly effective way to learn IFR flying.
When John is not in the air, you will find him teaching one of the many seminars offered at Pro. These interactive and engaging seminars are renowned throughout the industry and his ability to simplify the material and make concepts easily understood is second to none. John is also an aviation writer and regular contributor to two national publications as well as the main author of our in-house training material.
John ensures that each student gets the highly personalized attention they need, be it in ground school, seminars, or in-flight training. A passionate aviator and enthusiastic individual, he extends a warm welcome to all students of Pro!
Management Team
Mark Stierli
Operations Manager
David McIntosh
Director of Flight Operations / Chief Flight Instructor
Mark Gibbons
QA Manager / Class II Flight Instructor
Claire Stierli
Finance Manager
Lance D’cunha
Assistant Chief Flight Instructor / Class I Flight Instructor
Cyril Rodgers
Senior Class I Flight Instructor
![employee_default[1]](https://proifr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/employee_default1-300x300.png "employee_default[1]")
Ellon Seel
Person Responsible for Maintenance (PRM)
Kamy Fard
Authorized Person / Class II Flight Instructor
Our Instructors
David McIntosh
Class I Flight Instructor / Cirrus CISP / CFI / IFR / VFR
Lance D’cunha
Class I Flight Instructor / Cirrus TCI / ACFI / IFR / VFR
Cyril Rogers
Senior Class I Flight Instructor / IFR / VFR
Aaron Achoba
Class I Flight Instructor / IFR / VFR
Keishiro Hinuma
Class II Flight Instructor / IFR / VFR
Sören Rix
Class II Flight Instructor / Seminar Instructor
Kamy Fard
Class II Flight Instructor / Seminar Instructor
Patrick Baderkhani
Class II Flight Instructor / Ground School Instructor / IFR / VFR
Mark Gibbons
Class II Flight Instructor / Ground School Instructor / IFR / VFR
Shane King
Class II Flight Instructor / IFR / VFR / Ground School Instructor
Jordan L’Abbé
Class II Flight Instructor / VFR
Marco Campesato
Seminar Instructor / Ground School Instructor
Breanna Carrier
Class III Flight Instructor / VFR
Nathan Wong
Class III Flight Instructor / Cirrus TCI / IFR / VFR
Tyla Sharp
Class III Flight Instructor / IFR / VFR
Joey Shergill
Class III Flight Instructor / IFR / VFR
Vincent Wong
Class III Flight Instructor / IFR / VFR
Kevin Kim
Class III Flight Instructor / VFR
![employee_default[1]](https://proifr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/employee_default1-150x150.png "employee_default[1]")
Edward Migliore
Class III Flight Instructor / Cirrus TCI
Neil Burside
Class III Flight Instructor / VFR / IFR
Faizan Saudagar
Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR
Andy Lee
Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR
Markus Schaible
Class IV Flight Instructor / Cirrus TCI / VFR
Philipp Werner
Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR
Steven Neufeld
Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR
Maninder Kharoud
Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR
Abdul Manarvi
Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR
Beda Grunder
Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR
Jacky Lau
Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR
Ghaleb Alashwal
Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR
Stephen Little
Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR
Adrian Bernstein
Class IV Flight Instructor / IFR
Poul Go
Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR
Amol Kaur
Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR
Leslee Probasco
Ground School Instructor
Dispatch Team
Audry Coopman
Head of Dispatch
Victor Mansouri
Clemen Venasquez
Shannon Andrade
Sara Russel
Alex Kwon
Ebby Benjamin
Karan Sandha
Maintenance Team
Ellon Seel
Director of Maintenance
Cameron R Tully
Jame C. Cox
Mitch A. Peckinpaugh
Kenji Watanabe
Niloufer Dubash
💕💕👩🏻✈️👨✈️Evening Pro students, if you have not registered for your online virtual ground school 🤓💻📲please check your email or go to the link below. Remember, tomorrow at 8:30am Leslee will “see” you there!
elearning.proifr.com/login/index.php
❤️Leslee Probasco has been working at Pro as one of our daily ground school instructors for over ten years. She has extensive background on computer science and education. She used to teach information technology courses at UBC downtown campus…and she’s also a bush pilot! If you are interested in floatplanes, Leslee is the one to talk to!
| S | M | T | W | T | F | S |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | ||||||
8 | ||||||
29 | ||||||
