Just would like to introduce myself first.

Radek Wyrzykowski

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Radek Wyrzykowski - I was born in Poland in 1960. I came to the US as a political refugee. As a student in the 1980s in Poland, I became involved in the student independence movement. When the Polish government declared martial law in December 1981, I was imprisoned in January 1982. I came to the US in 1983. In January 2020, I was awarded by the Polish president the Cross of Freedom and Solidarity for my activities to benefit a free and democratic Poland.

I obtained my professional pilot degree from Mohawk Valley, under the SUNY Albany program, and have more than six thousand hours dual given. I was a chief flight instructor for Horizon Aviation Inc. from 2007 to 2009 and a chief flight instructor for Northampton Aeronautics from 2005 to 2007. I was a correspondent and contributor to a Polish general aviation magazine, PILOT Club, where I published many articles. I am a certified flight instructor, instrument and multiengine instructor, and award-winning author. My book "Becoming A CFI" was published in April of 2021. I am the founder and creator of the IMC Club and served as the president of that organization until 2015 when the program was acquired by the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA). I served as a Senior Program Manager - Flight Proficiency Programs at the EAA until February of this year. I had my employment with EAA separated since I had a very strong philosophical disagreement on what a non-profit aviation organization should be. Now, I am going back to rebuild what I started almost 12 years ago and what EAA tried to distort. I have always believed in the aviation community and its ability to come together for the greater good of helping each other to become proficient and 100% safe flyers. I am sick and tired of aviation politics and personal interests and gains over what is the right thing to do. I always like to surround myself with people who know more than me and have the expertise I may not have. We are not gods; we are just humans, and everybody is good at something else. I hope to be able to use this forum to ask for your help and your expertise going forward.
 
Any chance you could reclaim the IMC club and resurrect it? A great idea which has been essentially killed off by EAA.
 
Witam, Jesteś tu zawsze mile widziany.
Any chance you could reclaim the IMC club and resurrect it? A great idea which has been essentially killed off by EAA.
I am doing just that :) plus more. It is going to be 2.0 program. Unfortunetaly it can't be called IMC Club. I will have some announcements in April but if you want to see me in action building it go to www.radeks.org
 
Welcome to POA. Looking forward to reading your upcoming posts
 
from what I have seen, thus far, I don’t yet share the sentiment. I see random pop-up axe-grinding with single-point questions that offer no context or background.
Well it seems like he has a great deal of experience. Guess we will have to wait and see how things unfold
 
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laughs in nice job making it all about yourself, dude
 
Radek Wyrzykowski - I was born in Poland in 1960. I came to the US as a political refugee. As a student in the 1980s in Poland, I became involved in the student independence movement. When the Polish government declared martial law in December 1981, I was imprisoned in January 1982. I came to the US in 1983. In January 2020, I was awarded by the Polish president the Cross of Freedom and Solidarity for my activities to benefit a free and democratic Poland.

I obtained my professional pilot degree from Mohawk Valley, under the SUNY Albany program, and have more than six thousand hours dual given. I was a chief flight instructor for Horizon Aviation Inc. from 2007 to 2009 and a chief flight instructor for Northampton Aeronautics from 2005 to 2007. I was a correspondent and contributor to a Polish general aviation magazine, PILOT Club, where I published many articles. I am a certified flight instructor, instrument and multiengine instructor, and award-winning author. My book "Becoming A CFI" was published in April of 2021. I am the founder and creator of the IMC Club and served as the president of that organization until 2015 when the program was acquired by the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA). I served as a Senior Program Manager - Flight Proficiency Programs at the EAA until February of this year. I had my employment with EAA separated since I had a very strong philosophical disagreement on what a non-profit aviation organization should be. Now, I am going back to rebuild what I started almost 12 years ago and what EAA tried to distort. I have always believed in the aviation community and its ability to come together for the greater good of helping each other to become proficient and 100% safe flyers. I am sick and tired of aviation politics and personal interests and gains over what is the right thing to do. I always like to surround myself with people who know more than me and have the expertise I may not have. We are not gods; we are just humans, and everybody is good at something else. I hope to be able to use this forum to ask for your help and your expertise going forward.
You seem to think highly of yourself?
Don’t you think it would have been better to join and wait a while to post such things as you have?
I don’t enjoy reading this kind of stuff. Maybe contribute for a while before you start these kinds of posts.
You sound very bitter and that is not why I come here to read this kind of stuff.
 
Welcome and thank you for everything you did with IMC Club. I attend our local meetings every month.
 
FYI, I have attended a couple IMC meetings at KLUK a few years ago, they were not very well attended. I didn't get much out of it honesty here in Cincinnati. Not sure if they still have them? I told my instructor about them and he was not a fan, so that didn't encourage me to keep going especially since there was only about 5 people there.

I also participated in 2 meetings in Columbus Ohio which were much more attended and I did get a little more out of them but not enough to keep driving to Columbus Ohio for them. I attended them before I earned my instrument rating.

Hope you stick around.
 
Welcome, Radek. I worked with a Polish immigrant for years. He went through an experience in Poland very much like yours, even spending time in prison.
 
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