Bert Botta Captain TWA/NetJets (ret) 4 Michael Drive, Petaluma, CA 94954 415.320.9811 cell Email: botajet@gmail.com     CAPTAIN BERT BOTTA AVIATION EXPERT WITNESS CV & BACKGROUND Personal Statement: What if you could find an Aviation Expert Witness who was not only a former Major Airline Captain and Pilot Instructor but also a Captain for the World’s Largest […]

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Why “Self Help for Men” Without Jesus Christ is a Bad Idea! “If you stand for nothing, you’ll fall for anything!” Matthew 10:32: “So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven…” What guy doesn’t love an adventure!? I was an airline pilot, flew jets, rode […]

The Generation Bridge Bert Botta We have great age ranges here in cohorts. Yet I see the generation “gap” being nicely bridged Or am I fooling myself, not seeing something that needs to be explored? If there is a gap, what is it? How does it look in how we interact and share our lives? […]

Leadership For the New Aviator Flying Naked: How Owning Your Issues Will Fast Track Your Career! Lesson #1 The things that you’re hiding from will hurt you I started out thinking I wasn’t smart enough to be a pilot Now, 20000 flight hours and 35 years as an Airline and Corporate Jet Captain I look […]

Your life can become richer, in relationships, money and experiences by becoming a good “Connector!” Ask me how “Bert is what Malcom Gladwell calls “A Connector.” He forms many more relationships than most people have either the inclination or the capacity for.  He stays in touch with them, and is influential with them well beyond […]

From: Crew Scheduling Headquarters To: The Department of Crew Field Personnel Subject: Wanted Mostly Alive: Captain Bert “Maverick Junior” Botta This is an All-Points Bulletin on a white, bald, male Caucasian, age 82. The suspect was originally listed as 5’9” tall, most likely shrunk now to 5’7” because of accelerated aging, 180 pounds with a […]

Flying by the Seat of My Pants: An Aviator’s Journey From Hot Rods to God As a kid growing up Catholic in San Francisco, I learned about Heaven. But I wasn’t quite sure how to get there. Until the church offered me a sure fire way. Make the nine first Friday services during Lent, the […]

Just Another Day in Pilot Paradise: Battling Rain, Snow and Ice in the Northeast! If it isn’t bad enough getting up at 2 am in the morning to go to work, we were looking at a 14 hour duty day, made even more exciting by lousy weather and a poor aircraft anti-ice design for the […]

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