IFC - Murfreesboro, TN?

[USav8or]

Any former IFC pilots out here? Just curious where everyone ended up?
I still live in MBT - started in the Fall of '93; transferred to MTSU.

You can reply in English, svenska eller svengelska… ;)


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[kattfan]

Finished in 89 with CFIIME. Instructed one year. One year in TACAIR. Was probably shut down when you got there. Many more jobs after, airline for the last decade. Du svensk?

[USav8or]

Tacair was around but not for very long when I arrived. Berg was still in charge but later they moved IFC to Oklahoma. Which airline do you work for now? ...still live in the US? Jodå, jag är svensk...

[TowerDog]

Did the forerunner to IFC, McMinnville Aviation..Me and a few other Norske dudes were in the first class, started May 13th, 1978...The rest is history as they say...:sad:

[USav8or]

So where are you guys at? Did most IFC'ers go back to their home countries or did they stay in the US? I'm only aware of very few guys who’re still here: one's at Flight Options (I think), one's at Eagle, another guy got out of flying and works in a lab somewhere in New York if I remember correctly. Another guy's in charge of the biology department at one of the universities in Wisconsin. I fly for big brown.

[BATM]

Howdy! Started october -89, followed IFC to Oklahoma where it quietly got absorbed by Airman Flight School in -95.
My wife started at IFC may -93. We are now living in Sweden, both flying for a living.

[USav8or]

BATM - I think I know you and your wife - check your PM plz. :ok:

[Floats]

I did my training there in -82/-83. In this periode there was only a handfull scandinavian students there.
I knew at least 6 norwegians who settled in and around MBT/BNA area. Have lost track over the years. I worked there as FI for 6 months and moved on to a small freight operator contracted to the US Government. Back in Norway in -84. Usual career, floatplanes, DHC-6, F-50. Still on the F-50. Most students I'm aware from that time periode of got flying jobs and succesful careers. Understand Ø. Berg is out of the aviation industry, now residing in Florida.
Best regards, Floats

[TowerDog]

Understand Ø. Berg is out of the aviation industry, now residing in Florida.


Yeah he lives somewhere around West Palm Beach. (Or did a few years ago)

4 or 5 of us ex-students had an informal meeting with him at a local watering-hole in Fort Lauderdale back in 2000 or so. At the time he was indeed out of flying, instead importing stuff from Hong Kong or some such thing.

Lost touch ever since, but should be easy to find him on the internet if one starts searching.

[TowerDog]

Found him, looks like he is running a "hair-removal" company here in Florida.

Oyvind Berg was listed as President. email: [email protected]

[TowerDog]

Flew wtih a guy yesterday who worked at IFC from 1982 to 1985, Ken Sharkey. He says hello to all and said he enjoyed his time there.

Now he lives in FL and is a Capt on the 767 for AA.

[Guttn]

TD, you sill flying out of MIA? Might just be in MIA in about a month or so for some sun before winter kicks in up north:}

[USav8or]

Tower Dog - are you MIA based @ Big Brown?

[TowerDog]

Yeah, MIA based, but not big brown..AA.

Send message when ya guys get close, bring the sweet stuff and the brew is on me..:cool:

[USav8or]

I see, cool, I'll PM if I head in that direction... Take care.

[Wiley Post]

Hi ya'll

Funny, I was just thinking about IFC the other day and now with NAIA having problems and their students chatting away I was wondering where everyone from IFC had gone...

I'm Swedish and came over in August 99. Due to the friendly "recruiter" in Sweden I didn't start my course till October 99. Went with the school to Oklahoma and later instructed there for a bit before moving on to another school in the Oklahoma City area (with the other instructors). Stayed in the states for a bit doing corporate then went back to Sweden to convert... ...now in Dubai.

One of my classmates went to SAS. I also know one Swedish guy is flying a Gulfstream 550 in Europe another is flying Navajo for a Swedish operator. A norweigan guy is with Brittania in Sweden (or whatever they're called these days) and his wife (I believe) is with Westair.

Heading over to join the Facebook group now :-)

[USav8or]

...A norweigan guy is with Brittania in Sweden (or whatever they're called these days) and his wife (I believe) is with Westair...


I believe the person you're describing here is BATM on this board and he replied earlier on this thread. (post # 6)

Unfortunately I can't get him to reply to my PMs so I'm not 100%. I know them both but lost track...

[thunderball74]

Went with the school to Oklahoma and later instructed there for a bit before moving on to another school in the Oklahoma City area (with the other instructors.

Was that Business Air or PFA?

[USav8or]

IFC got kicked out of Murfreesboro by the city council and they then moved to Norman, Oklahoma. At first they worked side by side Business Air and eventually the two schools merged - at least that's what I remember being told...

[thunderball74]

I went to Business air and remeber Airman being located south of OKC in Norman. Didn't think that there was any relation between the two?

[Wiley Post]

USav8or: You're probably right. Sorry but I don't have any contact either... I only heard from a friend of a friend of a friend... :)

thunderball74: I also went to Business Air to teach the "newly started" ICAO course there before later teaching their regular part 61 and 141 courses. As for PFA I think you mean Pinnacle Flight Academy. If so they didn't open until after Business Air was shut down. Do you by chance know what eventually happened to Pinnacle and Jean? I heard there was some money problems...

As for IFC and Oklahoma as I recall it IFC was "bought" by Airman who was after IFC's J1 visa. The two were initially kept separate (except for the aircraft) and we were still doing the IFC ICAO program. Once it became apparent that Airman couldn't train their students on the IFC visa the school was slowly shut down/merged with Airman (which is when we all quit and went to Business Air).

IFC and Business Air never had a working relationship. The only links were that their chief flight instructor when we moved up was ex IFC and all of us left working at IFC also started there. Airman and Business Air were big competitors.

[thunderball74]

Pinnacle went bankrupt a few years after 9/11. I think Jean got out of the flying business. We must have been at business air around the same time? I met a few people that are still around from then. Dubai - I'll take it that you are with Emirates? I just got based in London with CX. Had a Dubai trip last week. Take care.

[Wiley Post]

thunderball74 check your pm...

[BATM]

The link between IFC and Business Air was a swedish pilot prospect hijacker by the name Kurt H., of whom I am sure you know.
Just a slight correction to USav8or message #19, IFC made a very short pitstop in Smyrna, TN, before moving on to Norman, OK.

[zeke08]

Hehe,,, spent some time in murfreesboro in 89 i think it was.
then in charleston. SAS, then Singapore cargo and now Emirates
At least three guys from IFC are here in EK.

[nord1mann]

Went to IFC in -79, Flew in Norving later and am now with Continental.

[TowerDog]

Went to IFC in -79, Flew in Norving later and am now with Continental.

Hmm, da har vi antagelig krysset stier. Hvor bor du naa?

D.H.

[perre737]

Hi!
Spent a couple of months at IFC in spring of-93. Changed school and went to Dallas. Iàm a Cargo pilot today working in Sweden. tjena!:)

[USav8or]

Wow, I was there in the spring of '93 as well and remember someone switching to Aviator flight school in Texas? It must have been you then?

Myself - I fly cargo in the US now... Still live in the 'Boro... :)

[USav8or]

Hey BATM - are you getting my emails at all? :confused:

In the last couple of months I've replied several times to your email but haven't heard anything back... not sure if you're getting them or not?

Just curious how you and your wife are doing over there in Svedala...

[RoyalPilot]

Hello M´boro!

Went to the school in january 1993, so I probably saw some of you who posted answers here, USav8r and others.

After delivering pizza in and around Laverne, Smyrna area I went to NJ and worked 2 years as instructor.

Got my swedish licences and then worked for an air taxi operator in sweden. Now I am flying turbo propp for a not so very succesful company.

I hope you all are doing ok - and I got a lot of flashbacks including god and bad memories coming back to hit me after reading this thread.

G.R.