Speakers

 

 

Tuesday 6 October

 

Sir Regional Ansett Memorial Lecture

 

 

Mr Alan Joyce
CEO, Qantas Airways Limited

 

Alan Joyce was appointed Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Qantas on 28 November 2008. He was appointed Chief Executive Officer Designate and to the Qantas Board on 28 July 2008. He is a former Director of Orangestar Investment Holdings Pty Limited (holding company of Singapore-based Jetstar Asia and Valuair) and Jetstar Pacific Airlines Aviation Joint Stock Company (in Vietnam).

Mr Joyce previously served as Chief Executive Officer of Jetstar for five years from October 2003, a period that included the commencement of the airline’s domestic and international operations. Prior to his appointment at Jetstar, Mr Joyce spent over 15 years in leadership positions for full service carriers Qantas, Ansett and Aer Lingus.

 

At both Qantas and Ansett, he led the Network Planning, Schedules Planning and Network Strategy functions. Prior to that, Mr Joyce spent eight years at Aer Lingus, Ireland's national carrier, where he held a number of roles in Sales, Marketing, IT, Network Planning, Operations Research, Revenue Management and Fleet Planning.
Mr Joyce holds a Bachelor of Science in Applied Science (Physics and Mathematics) (Honours) and a Master of Science in Management Science. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society.

 

Wednesday 7 October

Session 1

 

 

Dr Rob Lee BA (Hons) ANU PhD (St Andrews) FRAeS,
Aviation Safety Consultant, (GPCAPT RAAFSR), Executive Board Member

Dr Rob Lee graduated from the Australian National University in 1970 with First Class Honours in Psychology, winning the Australian Psychological Society Prize. In 1974 he completed his PhD in Psychology at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. His research was concerned with human performance in complex systems, with particular reference to aircraft.

 

In 1976, Dr Lee was appointed Senior Psychologist, Operational Command, Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). He became the first RAAF psychologist to serve as a human factors specialist on RAAF aircraft accident investigation teams. In 1983, Dr Lee joined the Bureau of Air Safety Investigation (BASI) as the Bureau’s first human factors specialist. He established and developed the Bureau’s capability in human factors, systems safety and research.

 

Dr Lee became Director of BASI in 1989. During his directorship he transformed the Bureau from a purely reactive investigative agency to an innovative multi-skilled organisation that concentrated equally on proactive accident prevention and safety enhancement. As Director of BASI, he negotiated memoranda of understanding to increase practical cooperation in air safety investigation in the Asia Pacific region with Indonesia, Singapore and Taiwan.

 

In 1999 Dr Lee was appointed Director of Human Factors, Systems Safety and Communications of the new multi-modal Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB). In 2000 he set up his own company, and is now an international consultant in human factors and systems safety in aviation and in other high technology industries. He was a human factors analyst on the investigations into the Gulf Air A320 accident at Bahrain in August 2000, the Singapore Airlines B747 accident at Taipei in October 2000, and the mid air collision between a B757 and a TU154M over Ueberlingen, Germany, in 2002.

 

He was a member of the Expert Panel on Safety Management Systems appointed by the Special Commission of Inquiry into the Waterfall rail accident in January 2003.

 

He is a member of the Advisory Board of the NSW Independent Transport Safety and Reliability Regulator, and the Nuclear Safety Committee of the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency.

Dr Lee is a Group Captain in the RAAF Specialist Reserve, in which capacity he is a consultant, and regular training course lecturer, on aviation psychology, human factors, systems safety and air safety investigation within the Australian Defence Force. He was an adviser to the Board of Inquiry into the RAN Sea King accident that occurred in Indonesia in April 2005, and was an expert witness on the Board of Inquiry into the fatal Army Black Hawk accident that occurred on HMAS Kanimbla, off Fiji, in November 2006.

 

He is a member of the International Society of Air Safety Investigators, the European Association for Aviation Psychology (EAAP), and the Australasian Society of Aerospace Medicine. He was vice-President of the Australian Aviation Psychology Association. He lectures at the Singapore Aviation Academy on integrated safety management systems, and on human factors, systems safety and risk management, on the annual course he co-conducts for EAAP at various European venues. Dr Lee is co-author with Professor James Reason, Captain Dan Maurino of ICAO and Captain Neil Johnston of Aer Lingus of the book ‘Beyond Aviation Human Factors’, published in 1995. He was an associate editor of the international journal ‘Human Factors and Aerospace Safety’, published by Ashgate, UK.

 

In 2000 Dr Lee was awarded the Aviation Human Factors Achievement Award by the Australian Aviation Psychology Association.

 

Dr Lee is a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics
and Transport. In 1989 he won the Henry Wigram Award of the New Zealand Division of the Royal Aeronautical Society.

 

In 2003, Dr Lee was awarded an International Prize by the Captain A. G. Vette Flight Safety Research Trust
of New Zealand. The award read: “Your work in the RAAF and as director with the Australian Bureau of Air
Safety Investigation has set an excellent example”.

 

 

 

Captain Bertrand de Courville
Manger, Corporate Safety, Air France

Bertrand de Courville is presently safety manager at the Corporate Safety department of Air France. He was previously head of the Air France flight safety department, in charge of conducting the airline air accident reporting program which includes a mandatory and voluntary reporting program, an incident and accident investigation capability as well as a mature flight data monitoring program implemented in the airline since 1974. Currently captain on Airbus A340 and A330, Bertrand de Courville has more than 25 years experience as an airline pilot within Air France where he held different management positions, all directly or indirectly related to safety management. He managed the first Air France Crew Resource Management training program in 1994.

 

Since more than 10 years, he has been an active member of the IATA Safety Committee (today “IATA Safety Group”) that he chaired between 2005 and 2007, in addition to different IATA activities including the Accident Classification Task Force in charge of developing the annual IATA safety report, and various IATA Flight Safety Foundation co operations.

 

Co-author of a human factors training course devoted to professional pilots, Bertrand de Courville has been actively supporting safety information sharing for many years, all around the world, through a number of conferences and articles, as well as through specific safety initiative together with Airbus and Boeing. He was also a contributor and supporter of the ICAO human factor program led by Daniel Maurino during the years 1990s.

 

In Europe, on behalf of AEA, he was one of the initiator of the European Runway Incursion Prevention Program, taking an active part in several other safety initiative led by Eurocontrol.

Also qualified on many type of aircraft from gliders to float planes, Bertrand de Courville has received the Flight Safety Foundation Laura Taber Barbour Award in 2008. On the same year he was elected as member of the French Air and Space Academy.

 

 

Session 2

 

 

Mr Mike Mrdak
Secretary, Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government

Mike is the Secretary of the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government.  He took up his appointment as the Department’s Secretary on 29 June 2009.

Between March 2008 and June 2009, Mike was Deputy Secretary (Governance) at PM&C where he was responsible for government, governance, cabinet secretariat and corporate functions within the Department.

After the COAG meeting in February 2009 he was appointed Commonwealth Coordinator-General and established the Office of the Coordinator-General (OCG) within PM&C.  The Coordinator-General works with state and territory Coordinators-General to ensure implementation of key Commonwealth stimulus measures in social housing, education infrastructure and transport that are being delivered by the states and territories.  The OCG also works closely with key Commonwealth agencies in relation to all education, housing, energy efficiency and transport and community infrastructure programs from the December 2008 and February 2009 Nation Building packages.

Mike first joined the Infrastructure portfolio in 1988 and since that time has had responsibility for managing transport and portfolio policy issues including international and domestic aviation policy and regulation, infrastructure investment, the COAG competition policy reform agenda, rail investment and regulatory reform, maritime policy and the portfolio’s interests in emissions, energy and natural resources policy.

 

 

 

Air Marshal Mark Binskin AM
Chief of Airforce

Air Marshal Mark Binskin was born in Sydney in 1960. He joined the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) in 1984 after an initial period of service with the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Air Marshal Binskin's service commenced with the RAN in May 1978 and on completion of flying training, was posted to fly A-4G Skyhawk aircraft at Naval Air Station Nowra, NSW. He served in VC724 and VF805 Squadrons and in January 1982 was selected as the first RAN pilot to undergo an exchange with the Royal Australian Air Force flying Mirage III aircraft. On completion of this exchange and with the disbanding of the Navy's fixed wing capability, he joined the RAAF.

Air Marshal Binskin's other flying tours include No 2 Operational Conversion Unit and No 77 Squadron at Williamtown, NSW flying Mirage and F/A-18 Hornet aircraft; with the United States Navy at VFA-125 at Lemoore, California training on F/A-18 aircraft; with the United States Air Force at 314 Tactical Fighter Training Squadron, USAF at Luke AFB Arizona instructing on F-16C aircraft; and No 75 Squadron at Tindal, Northern Territory flying F/A-18 aircraft.

He was the Commanding Officer of No 77 Squadron at Williamtown during the period 1998-99, Commander of Air Combat Group (F/A-18, F-111, Hawk and PC9-A(F)) in 2004-05 and later as Air Commander Australia in 2007-08. Air Marshal Binskin's flying qualifications include Fighter Combat Instructor and Tactical Reconnaissance Pilot. Additionally, he has served as the RAAF F/A-18 Hornet Demonstration Pilot and in this position represented the RAAF throughout Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and New Zealand. He has over 3,500 hours in single-seat fighter aircraft. He was awarded the Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for his performance as a Fighter Combat Instructor and the RAAF F/A-18 Display Pilot.

Air Marshal Binskin has served in various joint and single service staff positions including Headquarters Australian Defence Force as Deputy Director Airspace Control and as Staff Officer to the Chief of Defence Force; in the Defence Materiel Organisation as Officer Commanding the Airborne Early Warning and Control System Program Office; and in Air Force Headquarters as Director General Performance Management Audit and Director General Capability Planning. During Australia's 2003 contribution to the war in Iraq, Air Marshal Binskin served as Chief of Staff at Headquarters Australian Theatre. Following this, he served as the first dedicated non-USAF Director of the US Central Air Force Combined Air and Space Operations Centre where he was responsible for the conduct of all Coalition air operations in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom (ADF Operations Catalyst and Slipper). For this service he was awarded a Commendation for Distinguished Service.

Air Marshal Binskin is a graduate of the Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program, Australian Institute of Company Directors and RAAF Command and Staff Course where he was awarded the Chief of Staff's Prize for Professional Excellence.

Air Marshal Binskin was promoted to Air Marshal and appointed Chief of Air Force on 04 July 2008.

Air Marshal Binskin is married to Gitte and they have two sons, Scott, born in 1989, and Nicholas, born in 1993. Air Marshal Binskin's interests include camping, motor sports and motorcycle riding with his family.

 

Mr John McCormick
Director of Aviation Safety, Civial Aviation Safety Authority

John McCormick is a highly experienced pilot and senior aviation manager, who joined CASA as Director of Aviation Safety in March 2009.

 

He began his flying career in the Royal Australian Air Force in 1974 . He served as a fighter combat instructor on Mirage III fighter aircraft in Australia and South East Asia. In 1984 John left the RAAF and joined Qantas as a second officer on the B747-200.  He flew with Qantas’s international operations for three years.

 

John joined Cathay Pacific Airways in 1987, flying as a first officer on the B747-200 and later as a Captain on the Tristar.  In 1994 he became the airline’s flight training manager for the Tristar, based in Hong Kong. In 1994, he was one of two managers selected to introduce the Boeing 777 aircraft into Cathay Pacific Airways service. He was involved in the development of the Boeing 777 and later the 744 Boeing converted freighter program. In Cathay Pacific Airways, he transitioned to the role of flying training manager, B747-400.

 

From 1999 to 2002 John was chief pilot of Cathay Pacific’s Boeing fleet and from 2002 to 2006 he was general manager operations, based in Hong Kong.  As general manager operations John’s role included responsibility for the Cathay Pacific air operators certificates and all applicable regulatory matters.  He holds a Masters Degree in Aviation Management and has attended INSEAD business school in France. He has been involved in numerous International Civil Aviation Organization and Association of Asia Pacific Airlines committees and activities.

In 2006, John returned to flying as senior training Captain for Cathay Pacific on the Airbus A330 and A340 aircraft.  He has flown many different aircraft including single seat aerobatic aircraft, numerous fighter aircraft and many twin-aisle, high capacity aeroplanes. He is or has been a type rating examiner on the Lockheed L1011, the Boeing 777 series, the Boeing 744 series, the Airbus A330 series and the Airbus A340 series. He has in excess of 10,000 hours as pilot in command.

 

Mr Greg Russell
CEO, Airservices Australia

Greg Russell has been Chief Executive Officer of Airservices Australia for over four years.

He was Chief Operating Officer at Athens International Airport until June 2005 and from 1999 to 2003 Director, Aviation, Sydney Airport Corporation. In these roles he was responsible for the successful management of airport operations for the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympic Games.

 

Before joining Sydney Airport he was General Manager of the regional operator Hazelton Airlines and has held a range of management positions in private companies involved in the mining, energy and food industries. Prior to that he worked for the Australian Government and a number of industry groups.

 

He is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation (CANSO) and Chairman of the Asia-Pacific CANSO CEO Committee.

 

 

 

Session 3

 

 

Sir Roy McNulty CBE
Chairman, Civil Aviation Authority, UK, and Past Chairman UK NATS

Sir Roy McNulty was appointed Chairman of the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) with effect from September 2001, by the Secretary of State for Transport.  The CAA is responsible for the regulation of civil aviation in the United Kingdom, covering aviation safety, economic regulation, consumer protection, and airspace policy and planning.  The CAA is also the Government’s statutory advisor on civil aviation matters.

 

Prior to this appointment to the CAA, Sir Roy was Executive Chairman of National Air Traffic Services Ltd (NATS) from 1999 to 2001.  His principal role with NATS was to lead the company through the process of establishing a Public Private Partnership (PPP) – a process which was completed with the establishment in July 2001 of a PPP between the Government and a group of UK airlines.

 

Born in County Donegal, Ireland in November 1937, Roy McNulty qualified as a Chartered Accountant in Scotland. Between 1963 and 1966, he worked with Peat Marwick Mitchell in Glasgow; with Chrysler UK at Linwood for two years until 1968; with Harland and Wolff in Belfast for eight years until 1976; and as a management consultant with Peat Marwick Mitchell in Belfast until 1978 when he joined Shorts Brothers as Director of Finance and Administration. He was appointed Managing Director and Chief Executive of Shorts, the Belfast-based aerospace company, in 1988.

 

Following the privatisation of Shorts and its acquisition by Bombardier Inc. in 1989, he became President of the Shorts Group – the European counterpart of Bombardier’s North American Aerospace Group and a Corporate Officer of Bombardier. In that role, he led Shorts through a major programme of change which transformed Shorts from a loss-making Government-owned company into one of the UK’s leading manufacturing success stories.

 

When the two aerospace groups were combined in May 1996 to form Bombardier Aerospace, Roy McNulty was appointed Chairman of Shorts Brothers plc. He was knighted in 1998.  Between 1993 and 1994 he was President of the Society of British Aerospace Companies, and he was Chairman of the Department of Trade and Industry Aviation Committee from 1995 to 1998.  Today, in addition to his CAA responsibilities, he is Deputy Chairman of the London 2012 Olympic Delivery Authority, having previously been Acting Chairman, and was appointed Chairman of ILEX in October 2007.  He is also a Vice President of the Engineering Employers’ Federation and a director of several other companies.

 

He is married, with one son and two daughters, and lives in the Cotswolds.

 

 

Air Commodore Rick Peacock-Edwards RAF (Rtd) CBE AFC FRAeS FCIM
Immediate Past Master of the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators

Educated in South Africa (Michaelhouse and University of Witwatersrand), Rick Peacock-Edwards served for over 30 years in the RAF from which he retired as an Air Commodore in 1999. The son of a Battle of Britain pilot his own flying career has been spent mainly flying fighter aircraft (Lightning, Hunter, F4 Phantom and Tornado F2/3). He also has extensive experience in flying training as a Qualified Flying Instructor, Instrument Rating Examiner and Pilot Navigation Instructor (on Gnat, Hunter and Hawk). He introduced the Tornado F2/3 to RAF Service and formed and commanded the Tornado F2/3 Operational Conversion Unit. A graduate of the RAF Staff College, he was Deputy Director Air Defence at the MOD from 1989-90 and from 1990-92 he commanded the front-line Tornado base at RAF Leeming. During this time he was involved in the lead up to the first Gulf War as the RAF Commander at Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. From 1992-94 he was Deputy Commander of RAF Staff and Assistant Air Attache at the British Embassy in Washington. On promotion to Air Commodore he was appointed Inspector of Flight Safety for the RAF and served in this appointment from 1994-97. His final tour of duty was as Director of Eurofighter Typhoon at the MOD.

 

In his post RAF career he first joined General Dynamics UK as Director of Government Affairs and was later appointed Director Military Advisors. He left GD UK in 2003 to join one of the consortiums (VECTOR) bidding for the UK Military Flying Training (MFTS) System Programme. He was MD of Vector from April 2004 until March 2007. He is currently MD of his own consultancy company, RPE Associates, and is the Immediate Past Master of the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators (GAPAN), a City of London Livery Company.

 

He was awarded the Air Force Cross (AFC) in 1987 and appointed a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in 1993. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Aeronautical Society and the Chartered Institute of Management. He is a Trustee of the RAF Club. London, a Trustee and Member of the Advisory Board for the United Kingdom Confidential Human Incident Reporting Programme (UK CHIRP), Chairman of the Aviation Focus Group and a member of the Historic Aircraft Association Council. He is actively involved with the supervision of air displays. He is Chairman of the Imperial War Museum Duxford Flying Control Committee and he is also a member of the Flying Control Committees for the Farnborough International Air Show, the Royal International Air Tattoo Fairford, Biggin Hill and Dawlish Air Displays. He holds a commission in the RAF Volunteer Reserve and flies Grob Tutors with No 6 Air Experience Flight at RAF Benson, Oxfordshire, UK, giving air experience to air cadets. He is married with 3 children and is an active golfer. Other hobbies include stamp collecting and painting.

 

 

Session 4

 

 

Ms Shelly Roberts
Managing Director, Tiger Airways Australia Pty Ltd

Shelley Roberts, Managing Director of Tiger Airways Australia, has over 9 years experience in the aviation industry in both airline and airport management. Reporting directly to Tiger Aviation Group CEO and President Tony Davis, Shelley is responsible for the strategic development of Tiger Airways Australia, as well as the operation of its Melbourne and Adelaide bases. Shelley joined Tiger Airways Australia in July 2008. Before joining Tiger Airways, Shelley established her reputation as an esteemed member of the Australian Aviation Industry as a Director of Sydney Airport Corporation Limited and the Asset Director for Macquarie Airports.

 

Her formidable experience in the low cost airline model was gained at easyJet in Europe, arguably the most competitive low cost landscape in the world where she was promoted into a number of roles spanning all aspects of the organisation’s activities.

 

Shelley set up the Step Change function at easyJet and led the strategy implementation, designed to deliver significant margin improvement under pressure from record oil prices at the time. Prior to this Shelley performed a number of roles at easyJet which included the acquisition and integration of Go, running a tender process for setting up a ground handling joint venture and financial business planning.

 

Shelley qualified as a Chartered Accountant whilst working at KPMG in their London office where she was a key member of the Diageo and Nestle Audit teams. Shelley is a qualified Associate Chartered Accountant and holds a Bachelor of Business Science from the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

 

Her personal interests include the Theatre, travel and water sports.

 

 

Mr Martin Dolan
Chief Commissioner & Chief Executive Officer, Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB)

Martin Dolan was appointed as Chief Commissioner / Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau on 1 July 2009.

Prior to this, Martin was appointed as Comcare’s Chief Executive Officer on 1 July 2008 after previously acting as the CEO since July 2007.  He joined Comcare as Deputy CEO in March 2006.

Before joining Comcare, Martin was Chief Executive Officer at the Australian Energy Market Commission, and was responsible for setting up the organisation that sets the rules for the operation of Australia’s electricity and gas markets.

From 2001-2005 he was the Executive Director, Aviation and Airports, at the Department of Transport and Regional Services, with responsibility for airport sales and regulation, aviation security, aviation safety policy and international aviation negotiations.

Previously, Martin had undertaken various corporate management roles in the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, including Chief Finance Officer and then Head of Corporate Management. He started his public service career in 1980 with AusAid, managing aid projects in developing countries.

 

 

 

Thursday 8 October

Session 5

 

 

 

Air Vice-Marshal Mark Skidmore
Air Commander, Australia

Air Vice-Marshal Mark Skidmore was born in Kowloon,Hong Kong and joined the Royal Australian Air Force in 1977. He successfully completed Number 113 Pilots Course and was posted to Number 1 Squadron, RAAF Base Amberley to fly F-111s.

 

Following his tour on F-111s, Air Vice-Marshal Skidmore undertook the United States Navy Test Pilot School Fixed Wing course in 1985. At the completion of the course he was posted to the Aircraft Research and Development Unit, RAAF Base Edinburgh, where he flew F-111, Mirage, MB-326H, CT-4A and Dakota aircraft.

 

In 1989, Air Vice-Marshal Skidmore returned to RAAF Base Amberley and completed tours at Number 1 Squadron as the Operational Flight Commander and Number 82 Wing as the Operations Officer. This was followed by a posting as the Flight Test Director on the F-111C Avionics Update Program in California, USA. Returning to Australia in 1996, he served as the Staff Officer Operational Systems at Headquarters Air Command, RAAF Base Glenbrook, before resigning from the RAAF in March 1998.

 

Air Vice-Marshal Skidmore joined Aerospace Technical Services in 1998 as the Senior Test Pilot and Business Development Executive, positions he maintained following the company’s acquisition in 1999 by Raytheon Systems Company Air Vice-Marshal Skidmore rejoined the RAAF in 2000 and completed the Defence Staff Course at Weston Creek before being posted again to the Aircraft Research and Development Unit, this time as the Commander. From 2003 he was Director of Operational Requirements for the New Air Combat Capability project.

 

Prior to assuming the position of Joint Force Air Component Commander in 2005 he attended the Defence and Strategic Studies Course at the Australian Defence College, Weston Creek.

 

During 2005 he was deployed to the Middle East Area of Operations where he served as the Director Combined Air Operations Centre. For this service he was awarded a Commendation for Distinguished Service in the 2007 Australia Day Honours List.

 

Air Vice-Marshal Skidmore was appointed to his current position as the Air Commander on 27 June 2008. In this position he provides specialist air advice on raise, train and sustain issues to the
joint environment.

 

Air Vice-Marshal Skidmore is married to Caroline and they have two children, Nicole and Thomas.

 

 

 

Commodore Anthony Dalton CSM
Commander, RAN Fleet Air Arm

Commodore Dalton grew up in Melbourne and joined the Navy in mid 1980 as an 18 year old direct entry aviation Midshipman. He graduated from pilot's course in September 1981 and went on to dux his Iroquois helicopter conversion with No 5 Squadron in 1982. Over the course of the next 15 years he served with four Fleet Air Arm Squadrons, as well as a tour with the Multinational Force and Observers in the Sinai, keeping the peace between Israel and Egypt, and also a two year exchange as an instructor pilot, with the Royal Navy's 705 Squadron.

He has amassed over 5500 military helicopter flying hours and has extensive experience as a Sea King and Seahawk flight pilot, a display pilot and as a qualified helicopter instructor. He ultimately served as Executive Officer of 816 Squadron in 1996 and Commanding Officer of 805 Squadron in 2001.

In 1997, following his promotion to Commander, he served as the aviation representative on the Naval Aviation Force Management Review, a comprehensive examination of Naval aviation's performance and finances that developed the framework to carry the Fleet Air Arm into the 21st Century. In 1998, he took up the position of the Training authority - Aviation, responsible for all aspects of aviation training within Navy. In 2002, following his tour as Commanding Officer 805 Squadron, he was posted to the United States Naval War College in Newport Rhode Island for Command and Staff training and promoted to Captain.

He returned from the United Sates to the Defence Materiel Organisation as the Director Navy Aviation Projects in December 2003, becoming responsible for over $2 billion worth of Navy Aviation projects, including the much troubled Super Seasprite programme. In April 2007, he commenced a tour as Director Naval Officers' Postings. He was promoted to Commodore in May 2008 and took up his current position as the Commander Australian Navy Aviation Group in June 2008.

Commodore Dalton is married with two daughters and resides in the Shoalhaven. He jogs, slowly and enjoys cycling and bush walking when not flying.

 

 

 

Brigadier Shayne Elder
Commander, Australian Army Aviation Corps

Brigadier Shayne Elder entered the Officer Cadet School, Portsea in 1984. He graduated the Australian Army Aviation Corps in 1985 and completed flying training 1986.

Brigadier Elder has undertaken a variety of regimental appointments in both the 1st and 5th Aviation Regiments and has served as a flying and tactics instructor at the School of Army Aviation. He has accumulated in excess of 4,000 hours in both Fixed Wing (Porter, Nomad, King Air) and Rotary Wing (Kiowa, Black Hawk) aircraft involving a wide variety of mission profiles including general support, command and liaison, reconnaissance, surveillance and airmobile. He has commanded at troop and squadron levels and during the period 2003-2004 he was Commanding Officer 5th Aviation Regiment.

His non-corps appointments have included two tours at the strategic level in Headquarters Australian Defence Force in the Capability Development Group and a number of operational tours. These have included service with the United Nations Truce Supervision Organisation in 1995, a deployment for humanitarian assistance operations in Papua New Guinea in 1997, a deployment to the Iraq War in 2003 where he commanded the Chinook Helicopter Task Group and a deployment to the United States Central Command Forward Headquarters for a total of six months during the period 2004 to 2006. During the period 2007-2008 he was the Deputy Commander 16th Aviation Brigade.

Brigadier Elder's service achievements have been recognised with the award of a Commander 1st Division Commendation and a Chief of Defence Force Commendation.

He is a graduate of the United States Marine Corps Command and Staff College. His academic qualifications include a Bachelor of Professional Studies, a Master of Business Technology, a Masters in Military Studies, and he is currently completing a Bachelor of Laws.

On 12th December 2008 he was promoted to the rank of Brigadier and assumed his current appointment, Commander 16th Aviation Brigade. By virtue of this appointment, he is also Head of Corps, Australian Army Aviation Corps.

His interests include rugby union, military history and personal fitness.

Brigadier Elder and his wife, Heather, have twin girls, Sierra and Sienna and are expecting another girl in April 2009.

 

 

Session 6

 

 

Professor Paul Dempsey
Director, Institute of Air and Space Law
Tomlinson Chair in Global Governance in Air and Space Law MaGill University, Montreal, Canada

Paul Stephen Dempsey is Tomlinson Professor of Global Governance in Air & Space Law and Director of the Institute of Air & Space Law at McGill University, in Montreal, Canada. From 1979-2002, he held the chair as Professor of Transportation Law, and was Director of the Transportation Law Program at the University of Denver. He was also Director of the National Center for Intermodal Transportation. Earlier, he served as an attorney with the Civil Aeronautics Board and the Interstate Commerce Commission in Washington, D.C., and was Legal Advisor to the Chairman of the I.C.C.

 

Dr. Dempsey holds the following degrees: Bachelor of Arts (1972), Juris Doctor (1975), University of Georgia; Master of Laws (1978), George Washington University; Doctor of Civil Laws (1986), McGill University. He is admitted to practice law in Colorado, Georgia and the District of Columbia. 

 

Professor Dempsey was a Fulbright Scholar, was awarded the Transportation Lawyers Association Distinguished Service Award, and was designated the University of Denver's Outstanding Scholar. He was the first individual designated the University of Denver's Hughes Research Professor, and DePaul University's Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law. The Colorado transportation community named him “Educator of the Year”, and inducted him into the Colorado Aerospace Hall of Fame. From 1979-2002, he was faculty editor of the Transportation Law Journal.  He also served on the Editorial Boards of the Denver Business Journal, and The Aviation Quarterly (Lloyds, London), and currently serves on the Editorial Board of the German Journal of Air & Space Law, and as Editor-in-Chief of the Annals of Air & Space Law. Professor Dempsey has published 20 books and ninety law review and academic journal articles, and scores of newspaper and news magazine editorials.

 

From 1986 to 1998, he was host of KWGN-TV's weekly talk show, "Your Right to Say It."  Professor Dempsey has appeared on the ABC Evening News with Peter Jennings, the MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour, ABC World Business Report, NBC Today, ABC Good Morning America, CNN Crossfire, National Public Radio, CBS Radio, NBC Mutual Radio, and other news broadcasting networks in the United States and abroad.  His editorials have been published in major newspapers and news magazines, including for example, Newsweek, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal.

 

Dr. Dempsey is also Vice Chairman & Director of Frontier Airlines, Inc., and has served with that airline since its birth in 1994.  He is Chairman of Lynx Aviation, Inc., and founder and Director of DEW Immobilienverwertungs Gmbh (Austria).  He was a founder and first Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Certified Claims Professional Accreditation Council, Inc., and President and Director of the Genesee Foundation, Inc.  He has also served as a consultant to U.S. and foreign airlines, railroads, motor carriers, bus companies, transportation labor organizations, industry associations, government agencies, and telecommunications companies.

Dr. Dempsey has delivered expert witness testimony and studies before the Public Utility Commissions of the states of California, Colorado, Kansas, Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Washington, the Province of British Columbia, and the courts of Missouri and Nevada.  He has testified before the transportation committees of the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House of Representatives, the Canadian Senate, and the state legislatures of Colorado, Michigan and Texas.  He has lectured in Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kuwait, Macau, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Portugal, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

 

 

Ms Nancy Graham
Director, Air Navigation Bureau, International Civil Aviation Organization, United Nations

Ms. Graham is the Director of the Air Navigation Bureau of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the United Nations specialized agency whose mandate is to establish and revise the international standards for the safe, efficient and economical air navigation. In her current position, which she assumed in April, Ms. Graham oversees much of the work undertaken in the development of ICAO’s technical Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPs) which are critical to the safety of the international air transport infrastructure. 

 

Ms. Graham served as the United States Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Asia Pacific Regional Director from April 2005 to April 2007.  Ms. Graham lead the FAA’s Asia Pacific efforts to strengthen safety in the Region while encouraging procedural and system harmonization, promoting a safe and efficient global aviation system.

Prior to this assignment, Ms. Graham was the International Technical Program Manager, based in Europe, Middle East and Africa Regional Office, specializing in ATM technologies, systems and procedures.  Ms. Graham served as the Senior ATM Advisor to both the Chief Operating Officer for the Air Traffic Organization and the Director of the European and Middle East International Area Office, representing the FAA in a variety of ICAO venues. 

She formerly served as the Integrated Product Team Leader for the FAA’s International Oceanic and Offshore Programs and as the Communications, Navigation and Surveillance Co-Chair for the International Civil Aviation Organization’s Informal Pacific/Asia Working Group, implementing satellite based communication, navigation and surveillance (Automatic Dependent Surveillance (ADS), Controller Pilot Data Link Communication (CPDLC)) in the oceanic operational environment.  These programs were valued at over $500M and were staffed with over 300 inter-agency government and contractor personnel.

 

Prior to her FAA career, Ms. Graham was the U. S. Navy’s Program Manager for Surface Ship Weapons Systems providing weapons systems, training and support to both the U. S. Navy as well as NATO partners through the trans-Atlantic partnership.  Early in her career with the U.S. Navy, Ms. Graham was a weapons system engineering technician providing technical support to a variety of U.S. Navy surface ships.

 

Ms. Graham holds a Master of Science Degree in Technology Management, a Bachelor’s Degree in Management and is an avid scuba diver and gardener.

 

 

 

Ms Sue Burdekin
Senior Lecturer in Aviation Safety and Human Factors, University of New South Wales

Sue Burdekin is a senior lecturer in Aviation Safety and Human Factors with the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy (UNSW@ADFA) in Canberra, Australia.  She is an Organisational Psychologist with a commercial pilot’s licence and extensive experience in aviation business management.  Sue consults to the Australian Defence Force (ADF) and is a foundation member and the only civilian – non Defence member of the ADF Crew Resource Management Working Group. 

 

Sue has conducted behavioural research with the Royal Australian Air Force, Airbus Industries, Easyjet, the Royal Australian Navy and Defence Science and Technology Organisation.  She is presently working on a research project, funded by Eurocontrol, that is modelling future air traffic management beyond 2035.

 

Sue has presented at a range of domestic and international conferences including: the European Association for Aviation Psychology conferences in Crieff, Scotland; Warsaw, Poland, Sesimbria, Portugal, and Valencia, Spain; the International Symposium of Aviation Psychology, Dayton, Ohio; several Australian Aviation Psychology Conferences in Sydney; the International Society of Air Safety Investigators conferences in Taipei, Taiwan and Cancun, Mexico; the Airbus Human Factors Safety Seminar in Helsinki; the Airbus Flight Operations Monitoring Conference in Rome; the Eleventh Australian International Aerospace Congress in Melbourne; the International Aviation Safety and Security Conference in London; the Airports Council International – Pacific Best Practice Seminar in Beijing; as well as non aviation safety fora, such as the rail and security industries. 

 

Sue is an editorial board member of the Australian Aeronautics Journal and a committee member of the Royal Aeronautical Society (Canberra).  Other professional memberships include the International Society of Air Safety Investigators, the European Association for Aviation Psychology and the Australian Aviation Psychology Association.

 

Sue has recently returned from a sabbatical in the USA and Europe where she was working with NASA Ames Research Facility in California and Eurocontrol in Brussels and Paris.

 

 

Session 7

 

Mr Jim Davis
Managing Director, Regional Express Airlines (REX)

Mr. Davis received his secondary education in Melbourne and later attended both Melbourne and Sydney Universities, graduating in 1973 with a Bachelor of Aeronautical Engineering. He then worked for the now Civil Aviation Safety Authority for 4 years as an airworthiness performance engineer before obtaining his Air Transport Pilots Licence in 1978. Since then he has flown professionally in Australia and overseas for 25 years accumulating some 12,500 hours. Most of these flying hours were accumulated in regional airline operations, notably East West Airlines in Australia and KLM Cityhopper in Europe.

 

He joined Hazelton Airlines in 1999 as the Flight Operations and Standards Manager, which involved supervision of line operations as well as being responsible for the company’s training and checking organisation.

 

In 2001, after the Ansett collapse, he assumed the role of Hazelton Chief Pilot and held that position during the company’s period of administration and when it was sold and merged into Regional Express (Rex) along with Kendell Airlines in August of 2002. Mr. Davis became Executive General Manager Operations in 2003, and subsequently Managing Director Operations. He became Chief of Staff of the Chairman’s Office in 2007 and was then appointed Managing Director in May 2008. He is currently a Director of Air Link and Pel-Air, both Rex Group companies, as well as being the Chairman of the Australian Airline Pilots Academy. As Managing Director he personally chairs the company’s Safety Management Group and is actively involved in its activities.  

 

Mr Jim Turley
Business Services Manager Skystar Aviation Services

Jim is the Business Services Manager for Skystar Airport Services Australia, Pty Ltd. Skystar is a specialised provider of ground handling services to airlines and charter operators in Australia and New Zealand. Skystar is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Monadelphous Group, an ASX200 listed company providing construction, maintenance and industrial services to the resources, energy and infrastructure sectors.

 

Jim joined the Royal Australian Air Force in 1989 as a pilot and accumulated more than 2500 hours flying experience on CT4A, Aeromacchi MB236 and C130 E and H aircraft. Jim’s military experience also included postings to Headquarters Air Lift Group and No. 86 Wing.

 

After leaving the Air Force in 2001, Jim joined Impulse Airlines as the Manager of their Operations Centre. Remaining with Impulse after its purchase by Qantas, Jim’s experience was instrumental throughout the transition of Impulse Airlines into the QantasLink brand and then into Jetstar Airways.

 

Jim left Jetstar in 2004 to take on the role of Systems and Processes Manager with Skystar. His current position sees him responsible for all aspects of business services within Skystar including health and safety, commercial, human resources and employee relations, information technology, management systems and training.

 

 

Mr Lionnel Wonneberger
Director of Strategy & Business Development - Air Systems, Thales Australia

Lionnel Wonneberger started his career in 1980 as a manager in charge of Air Traffic Control
display equipment programs for all French en-route and approach ATC centres. He was
employed at that time by the French Civil Aviation Authority (‘Direction Générale de l’Aviation
Civile’).

In 1986, he joined the Thomson-CSF Company (now called Thales) first as an ATM bid
manager for various export business, and then as a manager of export automation programmes in 1990.

In 1993, he was transferred to Australia to develop the Thales proposal for ‘The Australian Advanced ATC System (‘TAAATS’) programme, and then became the first Managing Director of Thales Australian ATM operations in Melbourne after contract award in 1994.

 

He remained at that position until the end of TAAATS implementation in 1998. In 1999, he returned to Paris as the Director of the THOMFANS multi-disciplinary team (including Thales Avionics and Thales Communications experts), to develop future CNS/ATM systems with a strong focus on integration of on-board equipment with ground Air Traffic Management systems.

In July 2002, he was appointed President of the Air Traffic Alliance, a grouping of EADS, Airbus and Thales. He was instrumental in developing the ‘SESAR’ initiative for the implementation of the next generation ATM system for the Single European Sky, including the formation of a pan-European air transport industry consortium established to define the relevant ATM implementation programme with EUROCONTROL and the European
Commission.

Since the beginning of 2006, he has returned to Thales in Australia in the executive position of Director of Strategy and Business Development for Thales Air Systems global ATM systems business. Currently, he manages an international Air Systems team based in Australia, France and the USA.

 

 

Session Chairs

 

Session 1

 

Mr George A Lloyd (Peter) AO OBE MiD FCILT,
President

George A Lloyd AO OBE MiD is largely known throughout the world of Aviation and Commerce as Peter Lloyd.

 

He is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (4 years ago being made an Honorary Life Member) and a Liveryman of the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators (with the Freedom of the City of London).

 

Peter Lloyd has had a long business and aviation career as founder, Director, Chairman or CEO/Managing Director of a number of Public Companies and some private enterprises in Australia, France, UK and the USA. He has worked closely with World Leaders in France, UK, USA and several other countries and has been honoured by them one way or another. Peter Lloyd’s involvement covers the Motor Industry, Aviation, Tourism, Finance and the Film Industry and as a Grazier/Farmer on the Snowy River of New South Wales. The Motor Vehicle business he started shortly after World War II grew to be quite large employing 2000 persons, and in addition to that it owned a fleet of600 Motor Vehicles. The Helicopter Company he started with two others had 89 helicopters operating in it when he retired as chairman and sold his interest.

 

He is a qualified Pilot with 11,000 command hours in aircraft, he is also a qualified parachutist as well as balloonist; further he has some gliding experience. In World War II he served as a fighting soldier in the Middle East and Papua New Guinea, and was decorated.

 

For fourteen years he was a Director of the Royal Flying Doctor Service; a factor of which he is proud.
He held high office in the Federation of Aeronautique for some 18 years and eventually became World
President and is now honoured as a President of Honour. The FAI, with some 130 member nations,
has aviation influence over an estimated 40 million people (this includes Aeromodeling).During his period with the FAI and since, Peter Lloyd has flown light aircraft in some 100 Countries. In December 2006 he received an honour of which he is proud, namely the Patrons Lifetime Achievement Award of the Aviation Safety Foundation of Australasia and it was presented to him personally by the Patron, His Excellency, Major Michael Jeffery AC CVO MC, Governor General of Australia.

He is fanatical about air safety and the continuing need for all involved in aviation to be ever vigilant.

DECORATIONS
• AO – Officer of the Order of Australia – Services to International Affairs and Aviation
• OBE – Officer of the Order of the British Empire –Service to Aviation and the Motor Industry
• MiD – Mention in Dispatches WWII – Decoration for bravery as a Soldier
• Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal
• Australian Sport Medal 2000
• Yuri Gagarin Medal – Russia – Services to aeronautics and cosmonautics and the cause of World peace
• Order of Svazam (1st Class) Czechoslovakia – Services to Aviation and the cause of World peace through Air Sport without favour for Nationality, Colour, Race or Creed

 

AWARDS
• World Gold Air Medal – the World’s highest aviation award
• Oswald Watt Gold Air Medal – Australia’s highest aviation award
• FAI Bronze Medal – Service to International Aviation
• Paul Tissandier Award – Services to Aviation and Air Sport
• Patron’s Life Time Achievement Award – Aviation Safety Foundation of Australasia
• Life Member – Australian Parachute Federation
• Inducted Member of the Sport Australia Hall of Fame
• Medal of the Royal Federation of Aero Clubs of Australia – Services to Aviation

 

PRESENT APPOINTMENTS
• President – Safeskies Australia Conferences Incorporated
• Governor – Australian Sports Aviation Confederation
• President of Honour – FAI
• Honorary Life Member, Recreational Aviation Australia
As well as being a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport; and the Australian Institute of Management; other Fellowships of Academic or Commercial significance have been bestowed.

 

 

Session 2

 

Mr David Forsyth, BE (Aero), Grad Dip, MILT, FRAeS
Executive Chairman of the Safeskies Board

Mr Forsyth has over 35 years experience in the airline industry. He filled a number of key roles for Qantas Airways during his career, being actively involved in the growth of the Qantas from a fleet of 25 aircraft in 1985 to the 200 aircraft of today.

 

Mr Forsyth joined Qantas as an engineering cadet in 1970, and completed an Aeronautical Engineering degree. His career progressed as a professional engineer and then moved into the management areas, where he headed a number of engineering divisions, including Engine Maintenance and the Tullamarine Heavy Maintenance Base.

 

In 1997 he became the General Manager Regional Airlines and in 1999 Executive General Manager
Aircraft Operations, responsible for all Flight Operations, Engineering, and Maintenance.   He retired from Qantas in late 2003 to pursue work as an independent consultant.

 

Mr Forsyth has a Bachelor of Aeronautical Engineering degree (honours) from the University of NSW, a Graduate Diploma in Industrial Engineering (UNSW) and has completed the Stanford University Executive Program in the USA.

 

He is Chairman of Airservices Australia, Vice President of the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia (SE Division), President of the Royal Aeronautical Society (Australian Division) and Executive Chairman of the Safeskies Board.  He is also a Senior Visiting Fellow at the University of NSW and Chairman of the Industry Advisory Panel for the UNSW School of Aviation.

 

Session 3

 

Mr Martin U. Ripple
Vice President, (General Manager) Air Systems, Thales Australia

Martin Ripple is the vice president of the Air Systems business group, responsible for the overall delivery of the Eurocat-X air traffic control centre product world wide and a range of air traffic management business activities throughout Asia and the Pacific.

 

Joining Thales from the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS), Martin brings with him an extensive portfolio of experience in high profile aeronautical projects. Previously head of Group Strategic Planning fro EADS in 2000 and from July 2002 to July 2007 he was responsible for the Galileo program within the EADS SPACE division.

Prior to that he was part of Maschinen-Turbinen-Union's (MTU's) senior management team, after having begun his career at Mercedes-Benz in 1994.

 

Martin graduated with a degree in mechanical and aeronautical engineering from the Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule (ETH), Zurich, in 1994 following his service with the German Air Force. He holds a current pilot’s licence and enjoys flying light aircraft.

 

 

Session 4

 

The Hon John Sharp
Deputy Chairman & Independent Director, Regional Express Airlines (REX)

John Sharp is a well known member of Australia’s aviation industry having served as both Federal Shadow Minister for Transport and Minister for Transport and Regional Development in the Commonwealth Government.

 

For five years until May 2008 he served as the Chairman of the Aviation Safety Foundation of Australasia, which recently merged with the Flight Safety Foundation, (FSF) the leading global aviation safety organization. In 2009 he was the first Australian to be awarded the FSF’s highest honour, the Presidents Citation for meritorious services to aviation safety.  

 

A fixed wing pilot from 1978 and now a rotary wing pilot he continues his active involvement in the industry through non executive roles in a number of aviation companies.

 

Today he is a director of Australian Aerospace, an EADS company which owns Airbus, Eurocopter, ATR, CASA and number of European based aeronautical businesses.

 

For the last five years he has been the Deputy Chairman of Regional Express, Rex, Australia’s largest independent regional airline.

 

John Sharp is also Chairman of Pel Air an Australian aviation company operating freight services, general charter, specialist military  services for target towing, missile and fighter simulation. Pel Air is also Australia’s largest medivac operator in partnership with Careflight Australia.

 

Additionally he is a director of Skytraders a company which operates aircraft within and to the Antarctic on behalf of the Commonwealth Government.

 

Over the last eight years he has been a Chairman of various sections of the Safe Skies conference held in Canberra. This is the peak aviation safety conference in Australia.

 

John Sharp was appointed a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Transport and Logistics in 1998.

 

Beyond aviation he holds board positions in a number of companies, such as; Power and Data Corporation, where he is Chairman and Chairman of the Advisory Council of Parsons Brinkerhoff. He is also a director of the University of Wollongong’s Vice Chancellors Advisory Board.

 

 

Session 5

 

Group Captain Craig White
Director Defence Aviation and Air Force Safety

GPCAPT Craig White joined the RAAF in January 1982 as a cadet on No. 35 course RAAF Academy. On completion of No. 134 Pilots Course in December 1985 he was commissioned into the General Duties Branch as a pilot, and posted to No. 12 Squadron to fly Chinook helicopters.

 

On completion of Flying Instructors Course in 1989 then FLTLT White was posted to No. 1 Flying Training School at Point Cook for instructional duties on the CT-4A aircraft, during which time he served as  Category B QFI, Chief Maintenance Test Pilot, Low Level Aerobatics Display pilot, and Chief Ground Instructor. Following the closure of 1FTS FLTLT White undertook Thai language training at the RAAF School of Languages, before proceeding in 1994 on a Defence Cooperation Program posting to the Royal Thai Air Force Flying Training School at Kampaengsaen airfield, flying and providing instruction on CT-4, PC9, T37, and UH-1H aircraft.

 

In 1996 SQNLDR White entered the Royal Thai Air Force Air Command and Staff College graduating in November 1997. On return to Australia SQNLDR White was appointed Forward Air Control Flight Commander at No. 77 Squadron on the PC-9 aircraft, where he remained until June 2000.

 

As a WGCDR he assumed command of the ADF Basic Flying Training School at Tamworth in January 2001, until a further command posting as Base Commander at RAAF Williams in Laverton Victoria in January 2004. In November 2004 GPCAPT White was appointed Defence Attaché to Bangkok/Rangoon, where he served until returning to Australia in January 2008 to his current position as Director Defence Aviation and Air Force Safety.

GPCAPT White holds a Bachelor of Science from Melbourne University, and a Diploma in Applied Thai Language, and is a graduate of RAAF Academy, the ADF School of Languages, and the RTAF Air Command and Staff College. He is a fixed and rotary wing pilot with over 4000 hours experience. He has been awarded a CAF Commendation for service as an Interpreter on Thai Boomerang exercises, and a CDF Commendation for service in the response to the 2004 Boxing Day Asian Tsunami.

 

GPCAPT White is married to Unruan and has three school age children.

 

 

Session 7

 

Mr Patrick Murray, MAvM, MAP, FRAeS, FCILT, FAOQ, GAICD
Griffith University, Queensland

Patrick joined the full - time academic staff at Griffith University in June 2008 as an Associate Professor in Aviation.  He is responsible for all post - graduate aviation programs and research into aviation safety through the Griffith University Aerospace Safety Centre.

 

Patrick commenced his aviation career as a military officer. He served with the RAF and the RAAF as a pilot in operational and instructional roles as well as various staff appointments.

 

This was followed by 15 years of international airline flying on Boeing 747 aircraft in Cathay Pacific Airways where he was a Senior Check and Training Captain.

 

Patrick then moved to airline safety research, working with the team at The University of Texas Human Factors Research Project in the development of “LOSA” as a tool for monitoring and measuring critical team performance amongst airline pilots.  

 

Three years in the Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority followed where Patrick was the Group General Manager of Air Transport Operations, responsible for safety oversight of all airlines, airports and large maintenance organizations in Australia.

 

Patrick holds Fellowships of The Royal Aeronautical Society; The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport and The Australian Organisation for Quality. He is a Liveryman of the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators and a Graduate Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He is a director of an international consultancy specialising in Human Factors, Risk and Safety Management.