Top Gun! I'll take anyone on for trivia questions about this movie! (most recently: CARS...gotta luv Larry the Cable Guy!)

Pretty much love it all....I've learned to be open-minded and look for the good qualities in all genres of music....but I prefer classic rock (LZ,Hendrix, Boston, Foreigner), country (Rascal Flatts,Garth, Alabama, Gretchin), bluegrass (CDB), southern gospel, jazz/blues...."it's all good."

History: Guns of August (long, but awesome! about WWI) and Flags of Our Fathers (WWII)

Classics: The Three Musketeers and Count of Monte Cristo (Dumas is an enchanting author)

Aviation: The Wild Blue, The WASPS, biographies of John Glenn and Charles Lindbergh

Inspirational: The Choice is Yours (Maxwell- he has a ton of great stuff out there)

Mystery: Sherlock Holmes (Larry Millett puts a new and daring twist with the classic characters.)

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It all started on the sixth grade Florida trip to Kennedy Space Center. After falling in love with the idea of becoming an astronaut, I started taking flight lessons at age 13. I soloed a month after turning 16 and got my license in the fall of '05. Currently I'm in training to get an instrument rating and plan to get the commercial and multi-engine engine add-ons in the near future. It would still be incredible to travel to space one day, but I'm having a blast flying here in earth's atmosphere.

Here are some great quotes from pilot mentors:

There's no such thing as a natural-born pilot.
- Chuck Yeager

Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.
- Astronaut Roger B. Chaffee

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
- Amelia Earhart

I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.
- John Glenn (first American to orbit earth)

My screename is flyinbert. (I aquired the nickname "Bert" from a toddler who was unable to say "Brittany" and called me "Bertnie." Eventually the "nie" got dropped off and Bert stuck. Then I started flying, but in the South, it's customary to leave the "g" off of gerunds. (For all you who aren't grammar enthusiatists, a gerund is a verbal, or a word that acts like a verb. Other examples of gerunds are running, fishing, swimming or if you're from God's country, runnin',fishin', swimmin'. I know you all wanted to know that.)

piano, violin, writing, reading, flying, snow skiing, airshows!