John Geyman

John Geyman lives with his wife, Emily, and English Labrador, Bailer, near Friday Harbor on San Juan Island in Washington State. His 6,500 hours have included various kinds of flying, especially of the "low and slow" kind, including taildraggers, gliders, hang gliders, floatplanes, and open cockpit homebuilts. He has held a CFI rating for the last 23 years, received the Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award in 2010, and was honored as the Featured Pilot by the San Juan Aviation Museum in 2014. On...See more

John Geyman lives with his wife, Emily, and English Labrador, Bailer, near Friday Harbor on San Juan Island in Washington State. His 6,500 hours have included various kinds of flying, especially of the "low and slow" kind, including taildraggers, gliders, hang gliders, floatplanes, and open cockpit homebuilts. He has held a CFI rating for the last 23 years, received the Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award in 2010, and was honored as the Featured Pilot by the San Juan Aviation Museum in 2014. On occasion, however, he has become better acquainted with Murphy's Law than he ever anticipated. As an owner and active pilot of 15 different airplanes over the years, he has gone over to a light sport RV-12 for medical reasons. As a semi-retired family physician and professor emeritus of family medicine at the University of Washington, he has authored 16 books on health care as well as a previous book on flying, An Open Cockpit Biplane Dream: Honey Bee III. He still flies actively as a UFO (United Flying Octogenarian), including flying cancer patients to and from treatment centers on the mainland. See less