Mike lives in a rural township south of Ottawa, in Zone G, Ottawa Valley. He's been on the MAAC Board since 2020 and is currently MAAC's President. Before that, in addition to being Zone Director, he was the founding chair of the Finance Advisory Group in 2021 and served as MAAC Treasurer for two years. He's chaired the RC Electric and Large Model committees, led his home club, the Phelan RC Flying Club (2018 to 2022) and served as Assistant ZD (2017 to 2019) and Deputy Zone Director (2019 to 2020) and has been a Leader Member since 2011.
Mike retired from GE Nuclear Steam Power, where he was Quality Leader Americas, in charge of quality management for the fleet of nuclear power plants where GE performed service work. An engineering technologist, he has extensive experience with systems design and project management - these have stood him in good stead in his MAAC work, especially in the last year. Mike is passionate about the hobby and dedicated to safety and education for model aircraft pilots.
Mike prefers to fly large models and turbine jets and rarely misses a chance to practice aerobatics routines. He’s competed locally in pylon racing and discus launch, F5J, F5B and ALES glider competitions. He's been in the hobby since the seventies and got his start flying Cox .049 control line models. Like many people, marriage and career took priority over modelling until 2000 when his wife, Gwen, told him he needed a hobby, which led him back to MAAC and the various leadership roles he's held.
