AOPA Pilot Magazine - February 2018 - 112

PILOTS WHITE HOUSE REPORTER

Zeke Miller
On the Beltway beat
BY TYLER KNIGHT

IN 2003, Zeke Miller was 14 and living near New York's John F. Kennedy

112 | AOPA PILOT February 2018

Press's White House
reporter
HOURS | 141

CERTIFICATES AND
RATINGS | Private pilot

single-engine land

FAVORITE AIRCRAFT | "Not

that I fly it-but getting to
fly in the MV-22 Osprey for
work around New York City
is a professional and
aviation highlight."
EXTRA | Miller and several
friends are hoping to own
a Cessna 182 in a partnership, but professional and
personal obligations keep
getting in the way.

JOHN HARRINGTON

International Airport. As jets roared overhead, he spent free time playing the computer video game Flight Simulator. Within a few months, he
decided he wanted to fly for real.
After seeing ads for the U.S. Centennial of Flight, Miller asked his parents for an adventure flight. One year later, he began training. Despite the
cost and 90-minute round trip from Long Island to the Republic Airport
in East Farmingdale, he soloed at age 16.
Drive schedules and logistics put everything on hold his last two
years of high school. After graduating from Yale in 2011 with a bachelor's in political science, Miller became a politics reporter for Business
Insider, then BuzzFeed. In a business driven by deadlines and headlines,
he thrived. Time magazine was impressed enough to hire him in early
2013. He loved the political beat but never stopped thinking about flying.
That August he decided it was "now or never" if he wanted to be
a pilot. After researching options, he connected with the Aviation

LOGBOOK

WHO | The Associated

Adventures flight
school in Manassas,
Virginia. An instructor
agreed to fly with him
each morning before
work.
Starting his commute at 5 a.m., Miller
spent five months driving an hour from D.C.
in a rented ZipCar.
He logged as much air
time as possible before
driving to his downtown office. Within five
flights he soloed again.
Thirty logbook hours
later-and after six
years on the ground-
he earned his wings.
In November 2016,
Time named Miller
its White House correspondent. A new
administration was
sworn into office in
January 2017, which
led to numerous interviews with President
Donald J. Trump.
At 28, Miller has an
exciting but challenging beat; he now covers
the White House for the
Associated Press. To
relax, he flies as often as
possible on weekends.
"Flying demands
absolute attention at all
times. It requires me to
push the distractions of
life and work outside
the cockpit," Miller said,
adding, "It's also lots of
fun."
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