Career

Royal Naval/Fleet Air Arm pilot but after defence cuts moved to civil aviation with Airline Transport Pilot’s and Flight Navigator’s Licences. 1958-92 BOAC/BA Flight Navigator and pilot on Boeing 707s, 747s and TriStars. Training Captain and Flight Manager on all 3 types 1976-1989.
1979-81: chairman BA’s Fuel Policy and Conservation Committee to create a new Fuel Policy for British Airways.
1989-91: Director Operations & Chief Pilot, Private/Amiri Flight HH Sheikh Zayed, President of UAE. VVIP 747SP, responsible for 8 aircraft including Falcon 900 and Airbus A300-600.
1991-94: Technical Advisor and Chief Pilot Air Hong Kong. Training captain B747s. 1994-95: Dir. Flight Operations, Air Mauritius. Check Captain Airbus A340. Introduced Crew Duty Monitoring.
1995-2002: Flight Instructor & Examiner and Technical Pilot at Airbus Training Toulouse on A320/A330/A340, finally also working in Customer Support for Flight Operations Monitoring and Human Factors.
From 2002 consultant working for Airbus Training UK and others.
Chairman of Royal Aeronautical Society Toulouse Branch, member RAeS Flight Operations Group, Flight Simulation Group, Council 2005 to 2018,

Awards
UK Honorary Company of Air Pilots – 1971 Air Alan Cobham Prize. 1978/80 – The Brackley Memorial Trophy For Operational Fuel Conservation & Noise Reduction .

Publications
“How to reduce Noise and Save Fuel – Now” – instrumental in starting quieter more fuel efficient Constant Descending Approaches into London Heathrow airport in 1975.
In 1976 granted UK & US patent for a circular slide rule Descent Path Calculator showing Distance against Altitude on the profile. Produced primarily at high altitude to comply efficiently with US Air Traffic Control descent clearances to cross DME distance points at specific altitudes which caused gross errors when calculated mentally. At low altitudes on Approach an expanded scale displayed the Constant Angle profile by DME Distance to Altitude for a Non Precision Approach some 30 years before CANPAs were adopted in the US potentially saving many accidents.