Warren Hovland is an Adjunct Instructor in Aviation Education at SDSU.  He earned Bachelors and Masters degrees in electrical engineering from SDSU, and is a Computer Specialist in the SDSU Department of Administrative and Research Computing.  Since beginning flight lessons at SDSU in 1978, he has logged 3000 flight hours and holds a commercial license rated for airplane single-engine land and sea, airplane multi-engine land, and instrument airplane.  He holds a flight instructor certificate with ratings for airplane single- and multi-engine and instrument airplane.  His flight experience includes flights for business and pleasure, Part 135 charter operations, flight instruction, and piloting Cessna jump planes.  In addition, he is a USPA D-licensed and PRO-rated skydiver and static-line instructor, holds a senior parachute rigger certificate, and has accumulated 1600 sport parachute jumps and 14 hours of freefall (if riding in an airplane is flying, then riding in a boat is swimming…to experience the environment, you have to get out of the vehicle!).  He is part owner of two aircraft, a 1992 AG-5B Tiger and a 1946 J3 Cub.  Warren and his wife Denise live in Brookings with their cat named Oski.