Chris "BeachAV8R" Frishmuth
Contributing Editor

Hello! I’m Chris “BeachAV8R” Frishmuth, a flight simmer pretty much from the inception of flight sims. I started flying flight simulators way back in the days of Bruce Artwick and SubLogic, and was actually nerdy enough to have a logbook of my hundreds of hours flying Flight Simulator II for the Commodore 64.

My love of simulated aviation was really just a stop-gap measure until I could afford to get into aviation for real. During one of those post high school years I earned my private pilot certificate at Quantico MCAS since I was still a military dependent. After wandering around aimlessly through the first couple of years of college I found my purpose in life and landed at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, AZ where I eventually graduated with a B.S. in Aerospace Studies. I didn’t fly at all at ERAU since I just couldn’t afford that program, so after graduation I still had a pretty long certification road ahead. I completed all of my flight training up to Certified Flight Instructor - Instrument at Ramp 66 in North Myrtle Beach, SC (CRE) where I flew charter, flight instructed, and pumped fuel to make ends meet.

Eventually my exposure to corporate aviation at Ramp 66 landed me a job flying Citations for a conglomeration of textiles companies in Charlotte, NC. A couple of years later, in 1998, I found my current job flying air ambulance missions out of Charlotte on a mix of Citations and King Airs. I love the job and I anticipate doing it for a good part of the remainder of my career. The job affords me lots of time to play (hiking, kayaking, and windsurfing) and also allows me to indulge my computer related hobbies, not the least of which is participating and interacting with the great crowd at SimHQ.

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