In book one of Pat’s journey in aviation, the reader will come along through his early years as a pilot, almost taking on a barnstorming adventure. Watching Pat’s journey through the clarity of hindsight, you begin to see why he is so qualified to pen his life’s passion. Whether flying a Stearman, he named Betty, to Oshkosh or delivering an F-27 to Rangoon, Pat literally keeps you grounded in his adventure while soaring to new aviation heights as a student of flying, and eventually a seasoned, qualified pilot. In Pat’s early years, as he worked diligently to raise the money to stay ahead of the cost to learn to fly, Pat relates a life lesson that kept him not chasing the dollars, but in fact sticking to what he loved, and learning that the dollars will chase him.