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Field Director Profile
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Dale DeRemer
2525 East 29th Avenue
Suite 10-B, #110
Spokane, WA 99223
drd-at-aero.und.edu (substitute @ for -at-)
Region:
North & South Dakota
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Background:
Dr. DeRemer is an ATP pilot with more than 20,000 flight hours and is also a Gold Seal Flight Instructor. In 1998 he was named the 15th CFI to receive the NAFI Master CFI designation by the National Association of Flight Instructors. The Seaplane Pilots Association named Dr. DeRemer Seaplane Pilot of the Year, 1998. In 1999, The National Association of Flight Instructors and The Experimental Aircraft Association inducted him into the Hall of Fame at Oshkosh, WI. He is the author of six books on aviation subjects, all of which are well recognized around the world, including three (Water Flying Concepts, Seaplane Operations, Seaplane Pilot) about flying seaplanes.
After many years as a consulting agronomist, irrigation system designer, and mine tailings chemist/reclamationist, Dr. DeRemer flew as chief corporate pilot for three companies. In 1975 he went into semi-retirement and traveled to many parts of the world in his sailboat then, in 1981 started a new career teaching aviation. He has been known to say "I will probably never get any closer to heaven than being able to teach bright, goal-oriented young people about what has been my primary, life-long hobby."
Dr. DeRemer has taught Aerodynamics, Aircraft Systems, Avionics, International and Long Range Navigation, General Aviation Operations and Management, Seaplane Certification and was the founding advisor for the Wilderness Pilot's Association, an award winning university student organization. During the summer months, Dr. DeRemer conducts advanced wilderness seaplane courses into the Boreal forests and Arctic tundra of northern Canada. He has also taught those courses in the equatorial jungles.
See www.aero.und.edu/~deremer for more information.
Specialties:
Wilderness flight training, advanced seaplane technique and training.
Territory: (depicted in green)
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