Short bio

Emilio Corsetti III is a professional pilot and aviation writer. His work has appeared in both regional and national publications including the Chicago Tribune, Multimedia Producer, and Professional Pilot magazine. A graduate of St. Louis University, Emilio has been covering aviation and space topics for more than fifteen years. He and his wife Lynn reside in Lake St. Louis, Missouri.

Detailed Bio

Emilio first soloed at age fifteen. He has been flying ever since. His list of past flying jobs includes flight instructing, charter flying, corporate, time critical freight, air ambulance, aerial photography, regional airline, and major airline. He holds type ratings in the ATR 42 & 72, Lear Jet, and A320. He has over 15,000 hours of total flight time and is currently employed as a pilot on the A320. He is a graduate of St. Louis University where he received a degree in Aeronautics.

He started his first company in 1985. Apollo Software was the first company to market a computerized trip quoting system for air charter companies. His next business venture was Odyssey Interactive. Emilio, along with three business partners, began Odyssey Interactive to create multimedia CD-ROMs. The company’s first and only CD-ROM was Apollo XIII: A Week to Remember. This award-winning CD-ROM tells the dramatic story of the Apollo 13 space flight through a combination of still images, narration, animation, an original soundtrack, newspaper articles and interviews with the astronauts and five of the controllers who worked the flight. Emilio was the writer, programmer, and project manager on the CD-ROM.

Emilio’s writing career began after he sold his first article to Flying magazine. From there he went on to become a regular contributor to Professional Pilot magazine, where he wrote on a number of topics relevant to the general aviation industry. He also published articles in the Chicago Tribune and Multimedia Producer magazine.

The dramatic story of ALM Flight 980 is Emilio’s first book. He and his wife Lynn reside in Lake St. Louis, Missouri.