AD Reid, did not see your 2nd post until today. I first met Charlie in the Spring of 1988 working the Ramp for Piedmont Airlines. I started my A/C Mechanic time as an Avionics Tech at GSO Avionics shop in January 1990. Because USAir abolished the majority of Line Avionics jobs, with the exception of around five stations, I knew I had to obtain my A&P. My first times at 1NC6 was in May 1988, and then majority of my time was late 1989 through early 1991. I remember numerous guys that Charlie took under him in 1990 after the merger of Piedmont and USAir. Charlie was very willing to help anyone that really wanted to become an aircraft mechanic. I certainly tested his patients in 1990 when I was stripping the felt off the top of a dashboard on a 152. Charlie had just painted the A/C about a week before White with dark Blue stripes. I accidentally spilled way too much acetone on my piece of scotch-brite, and the acetone ran down the Pilot's side causing the Blue to bleed into the White paint. Charlie actually wanted to run me off and never let me return, but he allowed me to strip the area where the paint was bleeding together and he assisted me in re-painting that side of the A/C. I cannot remember exactly how many guys got singed off, but I knew it was a lot for the period of time that i was there. I highly doubt that there is another Top A&P/IA mechanic out there that will take the amount of time that Charlie did to advance others in aviation maintenance.
