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
Ghaleb Alashwal
Class II Flight Instructor / VFR
Pritom Roy Joy
Class III Flight Instructor / VFR
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Edward Migliore
Class III Flight Instructor / Cirrus TCI
Sofian Zaher
Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR
Alex Kwon
Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR
Audry Coopman
Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR
James Moon
Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR
Jimmy Thandi
Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR
Stephen Little
Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR
Tamar Rafeld
Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR
Ayesha Manarvi
Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR
Ricardo Luis
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
Paolo Custodio
Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR
Bhaumin Patel
Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR
Sina Seifi Zarei
Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR
Suizer April Islam
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
John Chow
Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR
Masahiro Hirata
Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR
Rafal Posypanko
Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR
Leslee Probasco
Ground School Instructor
Dispatch Team
Audry Coopman
Head of Dispatch
Karan Sandha
Administrator
Ricardo Luis
Naoto Inoue
Gautham Santhosh
Tarun Bhasker
CiCi Liao
Martin Azurin
Viella Rodrigues
Maintenance Team
Ellon Seel
Director of Maintenance
Josef Winter
Oscar Choi
Braedon Ellemo
Kenji Watanabe
Niloufer Dubash
Nazeem Jalil