Jonathan Bickel from Fort Worth Texas  29 years old.  I’m a commercial rate pilot and IFR certified, sitting at 1042.9 TT.  currently I’m flying pipeline out in west Texas for a company call Valor view aviation I have about almost two year of experience doing aerial survey flying Cessna c182, or Cessna c172. I’m ready to see take things to the next level and explore new opportunities.

Education

R.L. paschal high school
high school diplona August 12, 2013 - June 3, 2016 have some college experience at Tarleton state university and Tarrant county community college, then end up going to a flight school west of Fort Worth called Harbour aviation. were i ended up completing my training.

Work Experience

aerial survey
pixel king/Valor View Aviation August 26, 2024 - Present have about almost two years of aerial survey work, from doing aerial mapping work and following pipeline for two company. we completed mission and low and high attitudes while operating camera equipment, and sensor to capture the data to send back for analysis.

Highlights

completing my instrument check ride
September 22, 2023 night before the check ride was starting to get stress out about the check ride it self thinking that this was going to be the hardest check ride i will take during my training. but i kept telling my self and looking back over all my note and stuff thinking in the back of my head that i got this. the morning of i could stop think if i there was one piece of information i was missing but my instructor saw me walk in and gave me the confidence to walk in to that room and knock out the oral portion of the exam. couldn't believe how fast we knock out the oral and when the DPE stood up i thought there was something wrong but he told me "let go fly". i was so happy to hear those word only new that was half the battle, but i new the flying portion i had in bag since I'm more of a hand on person. once the flying portion was done we went back to the FBO where i was giving my certificate but both the DPE and me were impress on how fast the check ride went and just in time to catch the Dallas cowboys game.

Aircraft Experience

C-182
  • Time in Type: 976.0 hrs
C-172
  • Time in Type: 56.0 hrs
PA-28
  • Time in Type: 2.0 hrs
SR22
  • Time in Type: 1.0 hrs
C-150
  • Time in Type: 2.0 hrs