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

Class 2 Flight Instructor Air Canada Captain

Kamy Fard

Chief Flight Instructor / Authorized Person

Lance D’cunha

Assistant Chief Flight Instructor

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

Keishiro Hinuma

Class I Flight Instructor / IFR / VFR

Jordan L’Abbé

Class I Flight Instructor / VFR

Kamy Fard

Class II Flight Instructor / IFR / VFR / Seminar Instructor

Marco Campesato

Class II Flight Instructor / Seminar Instructor / Ground School Instructor / IFR / VFR

Sören Rix

Class II Flight Instructor / Seminar Instructor

Shane King

Class II Flight Instructor / IFR / VFR / Ground School Instructor

Ghaleb Alashwal

Class II Flight Instructor / VFR

Vincent Wong

Class II Flight Instructor / IFR / VFR

Adrian Bernstein

Multi-IFR Instructor

Kevin Kim

Class III Flight Instructor / VFR

Jacky Lau

Class III Flight Instructor / VFR

Edward Migliore

Class III Flight Instructor / Cirrus TCI

Nathan Wong

Class III Flight Instructor / Cirrus TCI / IFR / VFR

Anthony Cheang

Class III Flight Instructor / VFR

Philipp Werner

Class III Flight Instructor / VFR

Poul Go

Class III Flight Instructor / VFR

Maninder Kharoud

Class III Flight Instructor / VFR

Abdul Manarvi

Class III Flight Instructor / VFR

Andy Lee

Class III Flight Instructor / VFR