Jerry S.
Home Airport: DPA
Jerrold Seckler has been flying for over 59 years. During that time, he has amassed about 8,000 hours in a wide variety of General Aviation aircraft, and has personally flown a GA aircraft on all 7 continents. Seckler holds an ATP certificate as well as CFII, AGI and IGI certificates. He has been named a Master Ground Instructor 4 consecutive times by the National Association of Flight Instructors.
Seckler is a former Board Member of the Cirrus Owners and Pilots Association and served five years as the Dean of the College of Flight Operations of COPA University, the training and education arm of that organization. He regularly teaches at Cirrus Pilot Proficiency Programs where he presents classes on aviation weather, preflight briefings, instrument procedures, regulations, and aeronautical decision making. From 2020 to 2023 he was the President of the Board of Trustees of the COPA Safety and Education Foundation.
Nine years ago, he was honored to receive the FAA’s Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award for 50 years of safe flying.
In a previous life Seckler was a Urologic Surgeon as well as an FAA Aviation Medical Examiner.
Currently, Seckler has over 4,000 hours on his Cirrus SR22, which he purchased new and keeps at Chicago’s DuPage County Airport.