CHIRP

Team: Air Transport

  • Simone Tao

    Simone Tao

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    Simone started off her career in 2011 and opted for the modular route through Buckinghamshire New University. During the 3 year course she gained a Bachelor of Science Honours degree as well as gaining her PPL, CPL and ATPL licences. In 2015 Simone secured her first airline employment with Ryanair as a First Officer on…

  • Rob Holliday

    Rob Holliday

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  • Kirsten Riensema MSC, FRaeS

    Kirsten Riensema MSC, FRaeS

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    Kirsten has over 30 years’ experience in the operational and regulatory areas of commercial aviation. She has been dedicated to implementing safety and risk management principles and has experience in implementing organisational change, with a specific passion to ensuring people are central to decisions and solutions. She is passionate about designing processes that recognise the…

  • Alastair Burn

    Alastair Burn

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    Alastair started his career as a Propulsion Technician in the Royal Air Force serving 6 years on the Merlin helicopter. He spent the next 10 years working with civil VIP helicopters at Blackbushe, Stanstead and Denham gaining his B1.3 and C licence, alongside an Aircraft Engineering Degree and Aviation Maintenance Management Post Graduate Diploma. Alastair…

  • Chris Whittington

    Chris Whittington

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    Chris has been a professional helicopter pilot for over 20 years. Beginning as a Sea King Mk 5 pilot in the Fleet Air Arm, he conducted Search and Rescue operations for 771NAS in Cornwall. Moving on to the Sea King Mk7, numerous deployments to Afghanistan and the Gulf followed, including a period as an embarked…

  • Grant Meekey

    Grant Meekey

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    Grant has 35 years of Military and Civil Aerospace experience and trained as a pilot & rear-crew; rotary & fixed-wing. He developed aviation human potential in some of the world’s most isolated areas in operations and training to a broad spectrum of civil and military aviation professionals. Grant is chair of an independent aviation technical…

  • Toby Gaumann

    Toby Gaumann

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  • Ben Akhurst

    Ben Akhurst

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    Ben began his professional flying career in 2010, learning to fly in Australia. After completing his flight training he spent 11 years flying for an airline overseas, operating a mixture of short, medium and long haul routes. He returned to the UK in 2022 and currently flies the B777

  • Phil Young

    Phil Young

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  • Amanda Seddon

    Amanda Seddon

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  • Brett Dale-Heaps

    Brett Dale-Heaps

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  • Katharine Sanger

    Katharine Sanger

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    Katharine started flying from Southend Airport where she completed her PPL in 2010. She then undertook a modular route for her ATPL training and started her commercial career in 2017 on the A320.