55th ALPA Air Safety Forum August 3–6, 2009 . Omni Shoreham Hotel . Washington, DC AIR SAFETYS FORUM BIOGRAPHIES Dr. Kathy Abbott Chief Scientific and Technical Advisor, Flight Deck Human Factors, Federal Aviation Administration Dr. Kathy Abbott has over 30 years of experience specializing in aviation human factors. She currently serves as the chief scientific and technical advisor for Flight Deck Human Factors to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration on human performance and human error, systems design and analysis, advanced automation for flight path management, flight crew training/qualification, and flight crew operations and procedures. She is FAA liaison to industry and other government and international agencies dealing with flight deck human factors. Since 1996, Dr. Abbott has led the integration of human factors engineering into development and application of FAA/international regulatory material and policies for flight guidance systems, avionics, all-weather operations, Required Navigation Performance, flight crew qualification, data link, instrument procedure design criteria, electronic flight bags, electronic displays, design-related flight crew error, and other areas. Dr. Abbott also is vice chair of the Flight Safety Foundation Icarus Committee. Before joining the FAA, she conducted research on flight deck design and operations at the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. She is a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society (since 2001) and a Liveryman of the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators (GAPAN) (Freeman since 2005 and elected to the Livery in 2008). Among other honors, she has received the 2005 GAPAN Cumberbach Trophy for contributions to aviation safety and the 2002 Aerospace Laurel from Aviation Week and Space Technology. She is a private pilot, with training and familiarization with several large transport aircraft, including the B-747-400, B-777, MD-11, and A320/A330/A340. Dr. John Allan Head of Wildlife Research, UK Food and Environment Research Agency Dr. John Allan has worked as a specialist in bird-strike prevention for the past 21 years. He is head of the Birdstrike Avoidance Team at the UK government’s Food and Environment Research Agency and is chairman of the International Birdstrike Committee. His main research interests are the objective assessment of risk from bird strikes and development of audit and best-practice standards for bird management both on and around airfields. He received the Mike Kuhring award for achievements in bird-strike prevention in 2003. Richard L. Altman Executive Director, Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative Rich Altman currently serves as executive director of the Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative (CAAFI). Rich co-founded CAAFI in 2006 with U.S. airline (ATA), manufacturer (AIA), airport (ACI-NA), and FAA Office of Environment and Energy sponsors. CAAFI sets an aviation focus for its more than 40 energy supplier stakeholders and global airline members and serves as a catalyst to accelerate a broad range of initiatives leading to certification, technology development environmental analysis, and deployment of a full range of sustainable fuels from multiple feedstocks and processes. The CAAFI coalition now includes over 300 individual sponsors and stakeholders from all continents. A 42-year aviation veteran, Rich spent 39 years with Pratt & Whitney, initially as a propulsion engineer, branching into Advanced Technology Business Development. At P&W Rich’s efforts included execution of P&W’s Advanced Engine Advisory Process with airlines and airframe companies, leading to new commercial product definition and the development and implementation of a business focus for P&W’s Green Engine Program. biographies biographies Safety Security Jumpseat Pilot Assistance 40 55th ALPA Air Safety Forum . Omni Shoreham Hotel . Washington, DC He is a founding member of the U.S. Transportation Research Board Committee on Aviation Effects on the Environment, and is the author of its papers on Technology Deployment and Alternative Fuels. He is a member of the FAA PARTNER Center of Excellence Advisory Board, which includes alternative fuels “well to wake” CO2 life-cycle modeling and small-particle measurement among its projects. He is a member of the Transportation Research Board, Airport Cooperative Research Program advisory panel, monitoring its project to create an alternative fuels handbook for airports and alternative fuel suppliers. Rich holds engineering degrees from the Brooklyn and Rennselaer Polytechnic Institutes and an MBA from the University of Connecticut. James G. Andresakes Supervisor, Aviation Security, Air Line Pilots Association, International Jim Andresakes began work as a senior security specialist with ALPA in September 2002. In that role, he provided staff support to ALPA’s National Security Committee and coordinated with U.S. and Canadian government and biographies industry representatives on a variety of issues impacting the security of ALPA’s membership and the aviation industry in general. In September 2006, he was appointed supervisor of aviation security. Some of the security initiatives in which Jim participates include liaison with the Transportation Security Administration, the Federal Air Marshal Service, Transport Canada, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police; the Federal Flight Deck Officer Program (armed pilots); the Common Strategy (passenger and all-cargo); secondary barriers; cargo security; MANPADS (surface-to-air missiles); threatened airspace management; NORAD/NorthCom; flight deck jumpseat security; and interaction with various additional government and industry agencies. Jim was an Arlington County, Va., police officer from 1971 to 1998 and served in a variety of assignments both in uniform and as a criminal investigator. The last few years of his law enforcement career were spent on assignment with the U.S. Secret Service, where he served on an alien fraud task force and a federal drug task force responsible for investigating money laundering by major narcotics traffickers. In 1998, Jim accepted a position as asset protection manager within the Corporate Security Department of US Airways. He ultimately was promoted to manager of security, second in command to the airline’s director of security. He remained there until beginning work with the Air Line Pilots Association. Jim is a graduate of Georgetown University, and a member of the Aviation Security Advisory Committee (ASAC) and of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Center for Aerospace Safety/Security Education (C.A.S.E.) Advisory Council. Captain Dana C. Archibald, EGL National HIMS Chairman, Air Line Pilots Association, International Captain Dana C. Archibald is the chairman of ALPA’s Human Intervention Motivation Study (HIMS) program, serving 36 airlines and nearly 54,000 pilots. He is also Aeromedical/HIMS chairman for American Eagle Airlines, serving 3,000 pilots. Captain Archibald graduated from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University in 1986 with a bachelor of science degree in aeronautical studies. He has been employed with American Eagle Airlines for 21 years. Currently, he holds the title of captain/check airman on the EMB-145 aircraft in New York with over 18,500 flight hours. Over the years, Captain Archibald has volunteered his services to the Make-A-Wish Foundation, where he has had the opportunity to fly children and their families to Disney World in Orlando, Florida. His dedication to helping others was rewarded by American Eagle Airlines’ dedicating an aircraft in his name. For the past 11 years, Captain Archibald has gone through many training courses on chemical dependence at the Betty Ford Center, the Hazelden Foundation, Valley Hope Treatment Centers, and the Pilot Assistance Program in Toronto, Canada. He currently is a Labor Assistance Professional Counselor (LAP-C), National Certified Addiction Counselor (NCAC), and chairman of the FAA Advisory Board for the HIMS program. Captain Archibald resides in Raleigh, North Carolina, with his wife and three children. biographies 55th Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l 41 AIR SAFETYS FORUM First Officer Dolores Argento, UAL National Aeromedical Vice Chairman, Air Line Pilots Association, International Dolores Argento is vice chairman of the ALPA National Aeromedical Committee and the Air Line Pilots Association’s Oxygen Mask Contamination Project manager. A 777 F/O for United Airlines based in Chicago, she has flown for United the past 24 years and holds a bachelor of science degree in professional aeronautics from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University. For more than 30 years, Dolores has devoted much of her free time to studying multiple natural healing modalities emphasizing nutrition, as well as the physiological impact of international flying. First Officer Dean Armstrong, DAL MEC CIRP Chairman, Delta Air Lines, Air Line Pilots Association, International Dean Armstrong has been with CIRP since 9/11 and been the Northwest, then Delta, chair for three-plus years. He is a B-757 first officer based in Detroit doing a lot of international flying, so, he says, “I realize the need for global cooperation for all of us in the world of CIRP.” J. Randolph Babbitt Administrator, Federal Aviation Administration Randy Babbitt was sworn in as the Federal Aviation Administration’s 16th administrator on June 1. Babbitt comes to the FAA from Oliver Wyman, an international management consulting firm where he served as partner. A veteran pilot and internationally