ABOUT SCOTT

EARLY AMBITION

Scott has always had a passion for airplanes. Looking back through his memorabilia from grade school, there is even proof to support this as far back as Kindergarten. When his teacher asked what he wanted to be when he grew up, Scott's written reply was in two words ... a pilot!

FROM FARM BOY ... TO FLY BOY!

While growing up on a farm outside of Dimmitt, Texas, Scott was mesmerized by the local ag pilots or "crop dusters". He watched them for hours from the field as they sprayed with great precision and pin-point accuracy. More impotantly, he had no idea that their dare-devilish feats of flying low under high-line wires, a few feet off the ground at rates of 140 mph, would permanently embed a desire to attain that level of flying and beyond. In 1987, at the age of 18, Scott began his flying at the local airport in Dimmitt, Texas. By the time he turned 19, Scott had achieved his Commercial License and was working as an ag pilot for a prominent farmer and rancher in Friona, Texas. He has over 23 years in the business, has been a S.E.A.T. (Single Engine Air Tanker) pilot since 2001. He still helps out a couple of local companies flying Air Tankers for them as needed. In 2001, he began his current position as a civilian contract pilot for the Department of State Airwing.

GETTING IN THE GAME!

The sport of aerobatics was first introduced to Scott in 1994, by his late friend, Kirk Fulton, from Lubbock, Texas. He flew a Decathalon as his first aerobatic airplane. In 2005, Scott got serious about aerobatics and bought his stock Pitts S2B and since then has attended training at the Tutima Academy of Aviation Safety (Sean D. Tucker, president) in Kings City, California. Most recently, his training has come while flying with Wyche T. Coleman in Coushatta, Lousiana.