Stan Miller, Super Pilot

sbgrant · Post by **sbgrant** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 3:44 pm

Stan Miller passed away last night in Toronto Ontario.

Stan has to his credit an absolutely astonishing aviation career. Chances are your one of the 14,000 students whos name appears in his log books somewhere.

I believe his funeral is planned for next thursday, but i don't know the details.

I posted this here in this forum because its the most highly visibile. Please pass the message on to everyone in the aviation community

unregistered · Post by **unregistered** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 7:19 pm

Stan did my multi engine rating years ago, and I flew with him once in the Harvard.

We've lost a Canadian Aviation great. I'm sorry to hear this.

styles · Post by **styles** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 8:53 pm

Sad news indeed. Stan did my Commercial and Multi Engine rating. May he rest in peace.

Styles

PropSpinner · Post by **PropSpinner** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 8:39 am

Stan Miller

Stan passed away on Saturday Sept 29th @ 02:00am after a difficult battle with terminal brain cancer.

Stan was a great influence on many of our lives and flying careers.

Stan will be remembered fondly and will be missed by many!

The Services for Stan will be at:

Giffen-Mack Funeral Home
4115 Lawrence Avenue East
416-281-6800

Visitation
Wednesday October 3rd from 2:00pm - 4:00pm
and 7:00pm - 9:00pm

The Funeral will be on Thursday October 4th at 11:00am

The Funeral Home can be contacted for any additional information and/or directions.

60N · Post by **60N** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 9:12 am

Sad news indeed. Stan did my multi ride at Enterprise Air. An incredible aviator who will be greatly missed. My respects to his family and friends.

"To fly west, my friend, is a flight we all must take for a final check."

N2 · Post by N2 » Sun Sep 30, 2007 11:50 am

Sorry to hear that Stan has passed away. RIP Stan and thanks for the many words of advice and the flight tests!

Greg87 · Post by **Greg87** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 8:25 am

Never had the pleasure of knowing him, but from what I've heard we've lost a great person. This is a link from another forum, http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/p ... hp?t=16199 in that post I recomend clicking on the link to the photo tribute, very well done.

mcrit · Post by **mcrit** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 7:22 pm

Stan was supposed to do my ride for the Webster many years ago, luckily our a/c never showed up, and I got to spend quite a bit of time talking with him. I got a real kick out of hearing how he used to take fully loaded Lancs out of unlighted grass strips at night during WWII. As he put it, "We didn't have performance charts so we didn't know enough to be worried". I used to send lots of my students to him for flight test, and he always managed to pass on something a bit more to them. He was a true elder statesman for aviation.
Soft landings Stan.