Team: Advisory Board
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Lt Cdr David Carter MNM
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Captain David Carter MN joined Shell Tankers (U.K.) Ltd as Deck Cadet in 1980, gained his Master’s certificate in 1992, command in 1998 and continued with Shell as Master until 2012. During his last four years with Shell he was lead master of the Qatar Gas LNG fleet, having stood by, delivered and performed the…
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Commander Gavin Marshall RN
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A Chartered Marine Engineer, Gavin is currently the Head of the Operating Safety Group with responsibility for the day to day safety management of the Royal Navy’s surface ships. Having served in the RN for 17 years he has fulfilled a range of roles including Chief Engineer (MEO) at sea, operability engineer for the new…
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Captain George Capon
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George started his flying career in 1976, joining the Air Training Corps and Commanding a VGS for 12 years, initially learning to fly at Southend, he obtained his ATPL ,latterly flying as a Captain on the A340 and A330. Never forgetting the grass roots of aviation he has continuously held CAA and FAA instructor single…
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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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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 2004…
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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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Andrew Thorington
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Andy has over thirty years’ experience flying a variety of aircraft types and spent fifteen years in airline management positions. He is now the Interim Flight Operations Manager (Aeroplanes) at the CAA. He was sponsored through university by the Royal Air Force and graduated from the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne with a BSc in…
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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…