Team: Air Transport

Alison spent almost 20 years flying commercially for various companies on the BAe146, 737 and the A320. Of this Alison spent over 15 years at EasyJet where she was a line training captain and TRI/TRE. Alison joined the AAIB at the beginning of 2017 and continued to fly the A320 as a guest pilot with…

Baz has been flying professionally for 12 years all of which has been accomplished operating the Airbus A320 series of aircraft within the low cost environment around Europe. Born in Plymouth and after spending most of his youth in the Air Training Corps he read Physicsat the University of Salford in Greater Manchester and graduated…

Simon Oldfield is the current Director of the UK Airprox Board. He caught ‘the aviation bug’ at an early age and first learned to fly as a glider pilot with the then Air Cadets (now RAF Air Cadets). After a brief period in the insurance broking industry, he joined the Royal Air Force in November…

Jerry was commissioned into the Royal Air Force in 1982 as a general duties officer. He was a pilot flying the Canberra, Hawk, Phantom and Tornado F3 aircraft. While serving he received 2 Green Endorsements. In 2000, having qualified for his ATPL, he ‘retired’ from active service and joined Airtours as a first officer. In…

Karen Bolton has over 30 years experience in aviation and is an industry expert in safety. Karen started her career with NATS as an Air Traffic Controller validating on both London Gatwick and London Stansted Radar sectors. She has worked extensively across Europe with EASA, Eurocontrol and the UK DfT on safety improvement activities on…

Having flown commercially for 12 years, Will is currently a 737 Captain based at BHX with Jet2.com. He is also an Army Reservist and in that role has worked in Flight Safety and Human Factors training. 

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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…

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…