As an employee of Delta Air Lines, you may be eligible to participate in Delta Family-Care/Pilots Savings Plan and the Delta DC Plan. We can offer investment guidance for those plans and develop a strategy to maximize the choices you have available in a way that supplements your other investments and savings.

As Delta employees you may also be eligible to utilize Fidelity's BrokerageLink(R) account. By taking advantage of this option, we can offer a full range of customized managed-account solutions including individual stocks, mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, and other investments. The BrokerageLink(R) account greatly expands our ability to customize a diversified portfolio to meet your unique needs.

Please call us at (480) 284-8712 or email us at brent.mekosh@mekoshfinancial.com to discuss your options.

Why use Mekosh Financial Services and Raymond James?

All financial plans are not created equal. We chose to affiliate with Raymond James because each financial advisor with Raymond James has the freedom to offer objective, unbiased advice. Which means everything we do is client focused. Not transaction focused.

It all starts by taking the time to fully understand your personal circumstances, and then building a one-on-one relationship. We can then meticulously tailor a long-term plan based solely on your financial well-being and your specific goals. And as your needs evolve, we will monitor, manage and adapt your portfolio along with them.

We commit ourselves to realizing our client's financial goals through providing an institutional strength, open-architecture, global investment platform. Within this platform, we will use a disciplined, process-driven approach to initiate and maintain a proper balance between wealth preservation and capital appreciation. We are responsible for instituting a customized plan that participates in performance among multiple asset classes. To execute our plan, we will build a talented and experienced team of partners and a plan designed to achieve our client's overall vision and long-term goals.

Finally, at Mekosh Financial Services we love to fly! As a pilot – I understand what it is like "up there" and we are well equipped to simplify your financial life "down here." Read more about our love of aviation in the "Pilot’s Lounge."

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When did you become interested in flying?

Two events really impacted me when I was a kid. First, my family had a camp up in the far northern woods of Ontario, Canada. The only way into our camp was by seaplane – usually a DeHavilland Beaver or a Cessna 180 on floats. Mel – our pilot – was one of my childhood heroes.

Then when I was 10, my cousin David (now a 777 driver with Delta) graduated from the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. I recall being in the grandstands for the ceremony when all of the sudden the planet literally shook and the Blue Angels came roaring over the crowd. Those guys were flying the A-4 Skyhawk then, and I had never seen anything like it. I was hooked.

When did you get your Airman’s Certificate?

I started flying soon after 2001. I flew out of KTEB – a very busy Class Delta under New York’s Bravo umbrella. It was a great place to learn to fly – and I had my Airman’s Certificate after about 80 hours of time.

You are also a seaplane pilot. Tell us about that!

Flying floats is the coolest thing ever. Any waterway becomes a runway! I was taught by Vern Kingsford up in Moose Pass, Alaska – and I had a blast shooting into little alpine lakes and rivers all throughout the Kenai and up into the mainland. After I got the endorsement I stayed for an extra week. We were flying Super Cubs, and I was blown away by the STOL capabilities of that little plane.

Do you have a favorite airplane?

All of them, but a few aircraft really stand out for me. On the single-engine side, I’ve always had a thing for Mooney aircraft, and I think the Acclaim is the most beautiful single-engine out there today. A Cessna 182 T may not be as gorgeous as the Mooney, but you can fly literally anywhere in one. Finally, I have such great memories in those little Pipers that they will always fascinate me.

Outside of the single-engine machines, I love some of the military hardware. I was flying into RAP once and we flew near Ellsworth Air Base. You could see a couple of B-1B Lancers on the ground, and the sight of the silhouette of that plane gave me chills. Awesome.

Other than the B-1B, in 2001 I was in Tehran, Iran. We had just landed in an ancient Tupolev Tu-154 and on one of the adjacent taxiways I spotted an Iranian F-14 Tomcat left over from before the 79' Revolution. It was amazing to see that plane in Iranian colors. I've always loved the Tomcat and I was sad to see it retired.

Finally, I’ve done some long-haul flights as a passenger in Delta’s 777-200LR – notably several ATL or JFK – DXB flights. You can’t beat the flat-bed sleepers in BusinessElite! When you land you are so fresh that you almost want to start a new movie, have a glass of wine, catch some Zzzz’s and fly home!

You’ve done a little bit of aerobatic flying. What's that like?

Amazing! I’ve logged about 30 hours or so in an Extra 300 and a Pitts S-2C. Those are stunning airplanes. There’s nothing quite like executing a perfect snap-roll or recovering from an inverted spin. I was also fortunate enough to spend about an hour in an L-39 Albatros. That was my only jet-time and we got that up to about Mach .75 in a dive over Taos, New Mexico.

Any other aviation experiences you’d like to share?

Too many to list here. A few experiences that stand out are flying low above the prairies of Kansas in an old Cessna 140, the smell of sand and earth above the deserts in Namibia in a flex-wing ultra-light, and some amazing XC flying around UT, CO, and AZ wondering where on earth I can put the plane down if I had to. What can I say...get me near an airplane and I’m happy.