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Education and Training

  • RNoAF Technical School / Aircraft Mechanic
  • RNoAF Technical School / Aircraft Technician
  • Technical Institute of Koping / Mechanical Engineering
  • RNoAF/RCAF Fighter Pilot Training
  • Cranfield Institute of Technology (CIT) / Aeronautical Engineering
  • Squadron Officer Training
  • USAF Test Pilot School / Experimental Test Pilot
  • Technical University of Stockholm / Flight Safety / Accident Prevention
  • RNoAF Flight Instructo
  • CIT / Helicopter Design, Performance, Stability and Control
  • CIT / Safety Assessment of Aircraft Systems
  • CIT / Aircraft Fleet Planning
  • University of Southern California (USC) / Aircraft Accident Investigation Techniques and Human Factors
  • USC / Aviation Safety Program Management
  • USC / Helicopter Accident Investigation Techniques
  • Lund University School of Aviation (LU SoA) / Human Factors Learning Laboratory for Safety Investigators / Seminar
  • LU SoA / Human Factors Learning Laboratory / Making Progress on Safety / Seminar
  • LU SoA / Human Factors Learning Laboratory / Forensic Investigations and Systems Change / Seminar
  • LU SoA / Human Factors Learning Laboratory / Complexity and System Thinking in Safety / Seminar
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Work Experience

  • Aircraft Line Maintenance / Aircraft Mechanic / Aircraft Servicing
  • Aircraft Base Maintenance / Aircraft Technician / Aircraft and Flight Systems Maintenance
  • Mechanical Engineering / Machine Design
  • Mechanical Engineering / Material Laboratory
  • Fighter Pilot
  • Maintenance Test Pilot
  • Experimental Test Pilot
  • Flight Operations Supervisor / Flight Test
  • Offshore Helicopter Line Pilot
  • Offshore Helicopter Operations / Project Pilot New Helicopters
  • Offshore Helicopter Operations / Chief Technical Pilot
  • Accident Investigation Board Norway / Inspector of Accidents / Aircraft Accident Investigations
  • LandAvia Ltd / General Manager/Consultant / Aviation Advisory Services
  • Former holder of CPL A / IR A, flying time fixed wing 4 500 hrs
  • Former holder of CPL / ATPL H / IR H flying time helicopters 6 100 hrs
  • Former holder of PPL A (SEP land and sea)
  • Former Flight Instructor Airplanes, Helicopters and Airobatics, total flying time 10 600, flight hrs in 55 airplane types (gliders, trainers, fighters, multi engine transports) and helicopter types (single engine, single pilot, multi engines, multi pilot), total instructor time 1 250 hrs
  • Former CAA-N Flight Examiner Airplanes and Helicopters
  • Former Member of Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) European Advisory Committee
  • Former Member of JAA Human Factors Steering Group
  • Former Member of European Helicopter Association (EHA) Performance Committee
  • Former Chairman of EHA Performance Committee
  • Former Designated Bell Helicopters Bell 412SP Production Test Pilot
  • Former Lecturer in Helicopter Safety at Flight Safety Institute, KTH, Stockholm
  • Member of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots (SETP)
  • Member of the American Helicopter Society (AHS)
  • Member of the International Society of Air Safety Investigators (ISASI)
  • Member of the Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS)
  • Presented Papers at International EHA, SETP, FSF, ISASI seminars related to Flight Safety, Flight Deck Design, Flight in Icing Conditions, Lightning Strikes on Helicopters, Operations on Contaminated and Slippery Runways
  • Sola Aviation Conference Safety Award 2009
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