Andrew Serrazina
Flight Instructor.

It started when he was four years old. Pilots let him sit in the cockpit. He got to push some buttons. That was it — he was done for. The kind of thing you either grow out of or don't. He didn't.

Andrew grew up in Western Massachusetts and spent his entire life here. He trained at KBAF — Barnes Municipal Airport in Westfield — and built his hours in the skies over the Connecticut River Valley he's known since childhood. When it came time to become an instructor, there wasn't much question about where he'd do it.

What he brings to instruction that most CFIs don't is a formal background in Psychology. He studied it at the undergraduate level specifically because he understood early that flying isn't just a physical skill — it's a cognitive one. How people process information, how they build mental models, how anxiety affects performance, how feedback lands differently depending on the learner. Understanding those things makes you a better instructor. It's the difference between repeating the correct procedure and actually figuring out why someone keeps making the same mistake.

He works with student pilots, rusty pilots, instrument students, and anyone preparing for a checkride. But if you ask him who he enjoys working with most, the answer is straightforward: student pilots working toward their private. There's something about watching someone solo for the first time — the moment the airplane lifts off and it's just them — that never gets old.

He holds CFI, CFII, AGI, and IGI certificates, a commercial pilot certificate with instrument rating, and is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Aeronautics at Liberty University. He specializes in the PA-28 family and has significant experience with glass cockpit avionics including the G1000, G500, G5, and GNS430.