Riding the bus to school as a child, every morning Chris would pass by the glowing blue lights of the nearby Davidson Army Airfield just south of Washington D.C., and would dream of one day becoming a pilot. In his preteen years and decades that followed, PC flight simulators gave him an outlet and fostered those dreams of flight.

Chris eventually earned his Private Pilot certificate at Quantico Marine Corps Air Station before moving on to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University to earn his B.S. in Aerospace Studies. From there he went to work in Myrtle Beach, SC where he worked his way through his Instrument, Commercial, Multi-Engine, Certified Flight Instructor, and CFI-Instrument ratings by pumping fuel on the flightline and turning his paychecks into flight hours. In 1997, Chris was fortunate to be picked up by a textile company in Charlotte, NC that introduced him to turboprop and turbine aircraft. Sixteen months later, in 1998, he joined MedCenter Air as an air-ambulance pilot. It is a job he loves and enjoys. Over the years, he spent a decade writing feature articles and reviews for SimHQ.com until his departure in 2012. Since 2008 Chris has been a staff writer for London based PC Pilot magazine. He currently lives outside of Charlotte, NC with his wife, Marisa, and their six year old son, Kai.