Rod Machado

Rod Machado is a pilot and author of aviation flight training materials. He is ATP rated, and a member of the Aviation Speakers Bureau.

Biography
Rod Machado was born in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1953. He began flying at 16 after selling his motorcycle, and did his first solo flight at 17. He subsequently became a flight instructor, and earned all the ratings up to ATP, including private pilot certificate, instrument rating, and Commercial Pilot Certificate, as well as several type ratings. Rod currently flies a Cessna 150.

Rod is also devoted to taking care of his body and mind by being an eager runner as well as holding black belts in both the disciplines of Tae Kwon Do and Hapkido as also having trained over a decade in the Brazilian based Gracie Jujitsu.

In computer software
Rod Machado is the flight-instructor voice that narrates user-interactive lesson modules in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004: A Century of Flight and Microsoft Flight Simulator X.

Additional sources

 * “Plane Talk” From Machado | PlaneAndPilotMag.com
 * AOPA Online: Machado encourages prospective students
 * AOPA Online: Aviation: The power to transform lives
 * The Press-Courier - Google News Archive Search
 * Rod Machado Rolls Out Instrument Pilot's Survival Manual Third Edition | Aero-News Network