Mike Fizer has been a fixture at AOPA for over 30 years. I had the chance to work with him here at Arkansas for the video AOPA did on us. What an amazing enthusiastic and talented guy. There is some really neat stuff in this video celebrating his retirement.
I flew the camera plane when Mike Fizer took photos of a Travel Air 4000 over Flathead Lake. Rich Davidson was ferrying the 4000 from the northwest to Florida. Unfortunately the 4000 was crashed shortly thereafter, so the story never made AOPA’s magazine. (Google “nordo news” and check the archives for 2012.) Mike Fizer’s photos were stunningly better than what I saw from my cockpit!
I saw the AOPA LIVE program last night, Congrats to Mr.Fizer for a career of great work.
Glad to see a familiar face in the program, congrats to you as well.