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

 Senior Advisor

Lance D’cunha

Chief Flight Instructor

Jordan L’Abbé

Assistant Chief Flight Instructor / Class I Flight Instructor

Kamy Fard

Operations Manager / Authorized Person

Claire Stierli

Finance Manager

Cyril Rodgers

Senior Class I Flight Instructor

Ellon Seel

Person Responsible for Maintenance (PRM)

Our Instructors

Cyril Rogers

Senior Class I Flight Instructor / IFR / VFR

Jim Scott

Class I Flight Instructor / Designated Flight Test Examiner (DFTE)

Lance D’cunha

Class I Flight Instructor / Cirrus TCI / IFR / VFR

Jordan L’Abbé

Assistant Chief Flight Instructor / Class I Flight Instructor

Keishiro Hinuma

Class I Flight Instructor / IFR / VFR

Kamy Fard

Class II Flight Instructor / IFR / VFR / Seminar Instructor

Sören Rix

Class II Flight Instructor / Seminar Instructor

Vincent Wong

Class II Flight Instructor / IFR / VFR

Pritom Roy Joy

Class II Flight Instructor / VFR / Ground School Instructor

David Elder

MIFR Instructor

Sofian Zaher

Class III Flight Instructor / VFR

Ricardo Luis

Class III Flight Instructor / VFR

Alex Kwon

Class III Flight Instructor / VFR

Jimmy Thandi

Class III Flight Instructor / VFR

Sina Seifi Zarei

Class III Flight Instructor / VFR / Ground School Instructor

Audry Coopman

Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR

Ayesha Manarvi

Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR

Stephen Little

Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR

Paolo Custodio

Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR

Kevin Albina

Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR

Naoto Inoue

Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR

Yazeed Bayyari

Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR

Bhaumin Patel

Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR

Suizer April Islam

Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR

Masahiro Hirata

Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR

John Chow

Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR

Saksham Jamwal

Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR

Kieran Jenkins

Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR

Prasham Ladha

Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR

Rafal Posypanko

Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR

Cen Cen Liao

Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR

Nicola Hayre

Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR

Martin Azurin

Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR

Justin Lu

Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR

Tarun Bhasker

Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR

Shunsuke Suetsugu

Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR

Samyak Jain

Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR

Hyesu Kate Cho

Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR

Leslee Probasco

Ground School Instructor

Dispatch Team

Gautham Santhosh

Head of Dispatch

Karan Sandha

Administrator

Viella Rodrigues

Nathan De Silva

Toshihiko Kobayashi

Hassan Dbouk

Pratishtha Kukreja

Maintenance Team

Ellon Seel

Director of Maintenance

Josef Winter

Braedon Ellemo

Oscar Choi

Lorenz Robles

Quang KD Tran

Niloufer Dubash

Kenji Watanabe