Chad is the editor of AINalerts, AIN's daily business aviation newsletter, and is also the news editor at AIN Media Group.&nbsp;He has been writing about aviation, with an emphasis on business aviation, since 1994. Chad started his writing career at The Avion,&nbsp;the&nbsp;student newspaper at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida, serving as editor-in-chief before graduating with a bachelor's in aeronautical science. After a stint as managing editor at Professional Pilot&nbsp;magazine, he joined&nbsp;AIN in late 1998. Chad holds a commercial pilot certificated with instrument and multi-engine ratings, and he also is a CFI/CFII. He lives and works from his home in Venice, Florida.

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Chad Trautvetter

While most business aviation executives might do some work on long-haul international flights, they’re more apt to sleep or watch movies. But Nick Houseman, co-owner and board member of Elit’Avia and founder of Zenith Jet, used what would normally be some downtime to write his first novel.

 


Titled “Old Country Wounds” and available on Amazon, the work draws from Houseman's personal experience of leaving his home country of Scotland for Canada as a young adult. “But that’s where the similarities end—the rest of the book is pure fiction,” he said.

 


His book follows a man who leaves working-class Scotland in 1960 to build a new life in Canada, where he amasses a fortune in the Alberta oil business. Caught between his homeland and his adopted country, he struggles with family tragedies back home. He then uncovers a “dark secret” that leads him to mastermind a vendetta against a family he blames for his own family’s hardship.

 


“A theme that I wanted to explore in the book is probably quite common to many immigrants. It has to do with letting go of the past,” Houseman said. “At what point do you cease to be from the old country and truly identify with your new country? I’ve wrestled with that question for years, and I’m sure I’m not alone.”

Elit’Avia Executive Writes Thriller Novel

Houseman tapped into his personal experience of leaving his home country of Scotland for Canada as a young adult to write the book.

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