Your instructor and guide

About Jonathan Wieting

Jonathan Wieting brings a rare combination of professional flying experience, advanced instructor qualifications, and hands-on aircraft maintenance knowledge to every lesson.

Jonathan Wieting standing beside a general aviation aircraft

What Jonathan brings

Professional flying, instruction, and maintenance experience in one cockpit.

He holds ATP, CFI, CFII, MEI, and AGI certificates and ratings, along with an Airframe and Powerplant mechanic certificate and high-performance, complex, and tailwheel endorsements. That broad background allows him to teach beyond basic maneuvers and checkride preparation. His instruction connects aircraft systems, sound judgment, risk management, and real-world operating discipline.

Jonathan works with aircraft owners, recurrent pilots, rusty pilots, and students seeking thoughtful, individualized instruction in suitable customer-provided aircraft. Each lesson is tailored to the pilot’s experience, aircraft, goals, and operating environment rather than forced into a one-size-fits-all program.

His approach is professional, patient, and direct. Pilots can expect clear expectations, honest feedback, practical explanations, and a defined path forward after each lesson.

At Lima Juliet Aviation, the goal is simple: help pilots become safer, more knowledgeable, and more confident—one purposeful lesson at a time.

Practical value

Experience is most valuable when it improves pilot decision-making.

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See the whole aircraft

Connect systems knowledge, aircraft handling, and operational judgment instead of treating them as separate subjects.

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Train for the operation

Lessons are designed around the aircraft, the pilot’s experience, and the flying the pilot intends to do.

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Leave with useful answers

Each lesson identifies what went well, what deserves more work, and the most useful next step.

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Bring your goals, questions, and aircraft details.

I’ll review the information personally and outline a sensible way forward.

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