Team: Advisory Board
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Captain Chris Hanson
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Chris has been flying professionally since 1985 and has worked in a management role in British Airways since 2004. In the Royal Air Force, he flew, and trained pilots, on the Hawk and Tornado F3. In British Airways he has gained type ratings on the Boeing 737, 757, 767,777 and 787, he also has instructor ratings and…
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Air Cdre Dai Whittingham FRAeS
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Independent Dai Whittingham joined the RAF as a pilot in 1974. He flew Phantoms in the Air Defence fighter role and served as a flying instructor on the Jet Provost. He has commanded an E-3D AWACS squadron and the main operating base of RAF Waddington. A graduate of the Royal College of Defence Studies, he deployed in…
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Rob Buckley
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Rob was elected in 2011 as secretary of the UK Large Model Association (LMA), and since 2015 has worked with the UK DfT, CAA and the other UK model flying associations to steer and define the national implementation of model flying regulation under the EASA unmanned aircraft rules. He also sits on several CAA working…
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Andrew Young
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As a career change and following some travelling, in the early 2000s I threw myself and all the resources I had into retraining as a Helicopter Pilot. I was lucky enough to get an Instructor job straight away and have been busy ever since working on-shore. I now hold CPL, FI, FE on Robinsons, Bell…
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Dr. Michael Trudgill
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Dr Michael Trudgill MSc MB BCh MFOM MRCGP DAvMed DipIMC RCS(Ed) FAsMA FRAeS Michael is the Civil Aviation Authority Chief Medical Officer and joined the organisation in 2017. He previously held senior positions as an MOD Civil servant at the RAF Centre of Aviation Medicine prior to which he was a British Senior Medical Officer…
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Captain Mike Thrower
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College of Air Training 1974-1976 British Caledonian Airways 1976-1988 – flying BAC 1-11, B707, DC10 British Airways 1988-current – flying B747-400, B777, B787 TRE/TRI since 1992 BALPA Study Rep 2010- current
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Adam Spink
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Adam joined NATS as a trainee air traffic controller in 1998, and has worked at Heathrow Tower since qualifying, becoming an instructor, supervisor, and examiner. In 2008, he started in the ATC Operations department at Heathrow Tower, where he works on introducing new procedures and equipment, conducting safety analyses and research and development projects, while…
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Jason Sandever
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Jason has been the Ground Safety Inspector at the UK CAA for over 12 years. He joined the Flight Operations Inspectorate in 2004, after nearly a decade at a UK cargo airline where he worked as a Loadmaster on various Turboprop and Jet aircraft types. His regulatory oversight duties are very much focused on all aspects…
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Jonny Roe
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Jonny was appointed Safety Manager/Security Officer for TAG Aviation in October 2016. Jonny joined TAG Aviation in November 2014 as a Crew Training Instructor at TAG Global Training, where he helped to construct and deliver ground school training to TAG Pilots, Cabin Crew and Third-Party Clients. Prior to joining TAG UK, Jonny worked as Cabin…
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Tim Richardson
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Tim joined NATS in 1998 and validated as a Luton Tower controller in 2000. In 2004 he moved to Cardiff and validated in Tower and Radar. In 2006 he became a Deputy Watch Manager and, in this role, he was heavily involved in safety management work, including ATC procedures safety analysis, incident investigation and lesson learning.…
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Jez Pigden
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Jez joined NATS in 1991 working as an area radar Controller and more recently as a Supervisor at London Centre. He spent a number of years working in NATS’ incident investigation team and then within its corporate safety team. Jez was a member of, and then chair of the Professional and Legal Committee of IFATCA. He has…