Air Transport Advisory Board

Tim Sindall has been a pilot throughout his working life, the last 20 of which were spent in the UK CAA developing policy on operational matters that included the Air Navigation Order, JAR-OPS 1 and 3, ICAO Annex 6 and PANS-OPS. To keep in touch with the operating environment in this period he flew with five UK public transport operators on aeroplanes that included Airbus A320 and A300-600. He is an Independent member of the Air Transport and Cabin Crew Advisory Boards, and he is a CHIRP Trustee.

On leaving School in 1977 Tim joined the RAF as a pilot. He served in the RAF for 20 years where he operated Harrier aircraft in the UK, USA and Germany. He spent much of his time on instructional duties with formal instructional appointments on the Jet Provost, Hawk and Harrier aircraft. His final tour in the RAF was as a Board of Inquiry Advisor investigating RAF aircraft accidents.

In 1997 Tim joined Airtours as a Boeing FO. He gained Command on the Boeing in 1999 and has since progressed as Line Training Captain, TRI and TRE. He has filled the roles of Flight Safety Officer, Fleet Operations Manager and Fleet Manger before he was appointed as the Training Manager in November 2005.

Tim is married with 4 children and lives in Wilmslow. In his spare time he works as a Civilian Instructor in the local ATC Squadron.

Air Commodore Dugmore’s first operational tour began in 1979 with No 43(F) Squadron, flying Phantoms in the Air Defence role. He converted to the Tornado GR1 and the Strike/Attack role in 1981 and served with No IX(B) Squadron at RAF Honington from 1982, and No 14 Squadron at RAF Bruggen from 1985. From 1987 to 1990 he was a Flight Commander on No XV Squadron at RAF Laarbruch, where he was awarded the Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air.

In 1990 Air Commodore Dugmore attended the RAF Staff College and was then posted to the EuroFighter office in the Operational Requirements Directorate of the Ministry of Defence. In 1992 he was appointed the Personal Staff Officer to the Assistant Chief of the Air Staff. He returned to flying duties at RAF Lossiemouth in 1995 when he became the Squadron Commander of No 617 Squadron, “The Dambusters”, flying Tornado GR1s in the Overland and Maritime Attack roles.

In 1998 Air Commodore Dugmore was deployed to Saudi Arabia as Commander of British Forces on Operation BOLTON, primarily engaged in enforcing the No-Fly Zone in southern Iraq. He served as the Station Commander at RAF Marham in 1999 and in 2000, before attending the Joint Services Higher Command and Staff Course in 2001. He was then posted to Headquarters Strike Command as Group Captain Air Operations where he was responsible for coordinating the Strike Command contribution to operations in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Following his promotion to Air Commodore 2003, he was appointed Director of Targeting and Information Operations at the Ministry of Defence and in 2006 he was appointed Assistant Director for Transformation at the NATO Joint Air Power Competence Centre in Kalkar, Germany. In 2007 he was deployed to the Middle East as the Director of the Combined Air Operations Centre where he was responsible for the planning and execution of air operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In his current appointment, Director of Aviation Regulation and Safety, Air Commodore Dugmore is based at RAF Northolt.

1962-64 Training

1964-65 845 Commando Squadron Wessex 1. Service in Far East, including the Borneo confrontation

1965-67 826 A/S Squadron Wessex 1. Based on HMS Hermes, Middle and Far East tour. First participated in Farnborough Air Show.

1968-71 Wasp pilot. HMS Yarmouth Flight commander. Service in Far East and Med.

1972 Empire Test Pilot’s School

1972-75 Test pilot at Boscombe Down. Initial trials on Gazelle, Lynx and Sea King. Carried out first Lynx deck landings. Icing trials in Canada. Awarded Queen’s Commendation for Valuable Services in the Air.

1976-77 Senior Pilot of first Lynx Squadron, 700L.

1978-9 Flight Commander HMS Kent. South America tour

1979 Joined Westland Helicopters as test pilot.

1979-86 Test pilot carrying out development and production test flying on Gazelle, Lynx, Sea King and Westland 30

1986 Appointed Deputy Chief Test Pilot

1988 Appointed Chief Test Pilot. Joined Flying Control Committee for Farnborough Air Show. Member of Committee for next nine Shows.

1988-2003 CTP at Westlands. Development flying of EH 101/Merlin, including first flights of all prototypes, and introduction into service. Carried out first deck landings.

2003 Awarded OBE

2003-09 Comms pilot at Westlands

2004 Appointed Flying Display Director for Farnborough Air Show, and retained that position in 2006 and 2008.

Rich Jones joined the RAF in 1976 and flew the Phantom in the Air Defence role in the UK and Germany, attaining over 1500 hours as a fast jet navigator, combat instructor and flying supervisor. Converting to the Tornado Fighter variant in 1987, he flew over 850 hours in the UK and Falklands and on operations and in over 40 countries in Europe, North America and in the Middle and Far East.

Ground tours included personnel management, the Joint Services Defence College and in Ministry of Defence covering Air Defence policy and operational management of the Tornado F3 fleet. Returning to the cockpit in 1996, he commanded the Air Wing and Mount Pleasant Airfield in the Falklands, comprising 550 personnel and 12 aircraft of 6 different types with a budget of £18M. In 1998, he was Commander British Forces in the Gulf on Operation Desert Fox and the No Fly Zones with responsibility for 1200 personnel in 3 countries for which he was appointed CBE.

On his return to the UK, Rich commanded RAF Neatishead, the primary Radar Control and Reporting Centre for all UK airspace. He managed a team of 650 and a budget of £29M. This was followed by a year studying International Relations at the Royal College of Defence Studies in London. In 2002 and 2003, Rich led the operations teams at PJHQ Northwood dealing with operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

After 6 months in Baghdad as the Deputy Senior British Military Representative working with the US and UK military and diplomatic missions in 2003/4, he became Commander of Maritime Air and Senior Air Adviser at the NATO Maritime HQ at Northwood with a multinational team.

Completing his final RAF tour in December 2007 as the Air Commodore Operations, Rich’s role encompassed planning and execution of all RAF flying operations in the UK and overseas with a budget of £39M and a staff of over 120. His wide ranging responsibilities included the RAF Flight Safety Organization, where he was charged with developing the RAF-wide Flight Safety Management System. He was also a member of the MOD Aviation Regulatory and Safety Board and Chairman of the RAF Display Participation Committee which required him to authorize foreign single and multi-aircraft military air displays in the UK. He was also tasked to deliver the safe operation of UK airspace policing and fighter and advised commercial airlines on security and risks of flying operations in Iraqi and Afghanistan airspace and airfields. He also led a multinational NATO team in negotiating and planning the successful take-over of a major airfield and facilities in Afghanistan from US Forces.

Rich Jones joined the United Kingdom Flight Safety Committee as the Chief Executive in February 2008. As well as oversight of the UKFSC Secretariat, he is responsible for the four major outputs of the UKFSC; the bi-monthly Safety Information Exchange Meetings for its 86 Members from across the UK and overseas airline industry, the production of FOCUS magazine with a 10,000 circulation, a website for aviation safety information and a Flight Safety Officers’ Familiarisation Course.

Since his appointment, Rich has joined the European Commercial Air Transport Safety Team at EASA, the European Advisory Council for the Flight Safety Foundation, a number of CAA Safety forums including the Air Safety Initiative, the Commercial Air Transport Consultative Council, the General Aviation Consultative Council, the National Air Traffic Management Advisory Council, the Runway Incursion Steering Group and the Business Aviation Safety Partnership. In addition, he is a member of the CHIRP Air Transport Board, the General Aviation Safety Council, the Parliamentary Advisory Committee for Transport, the NATS Safety Partnership and the GAPAN Technical and Air Safety Committee.

David King is the United Kingdom’s Chief Inspector of Air Accidents and Head of the Department for Transport’s Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) based in Farnborough.

He served a multi-disciplinary apprenticeship with Hawker Siddeley Aviation (1963-70), in which he obtained an Upper Second Bachelor of Science Degree in Aeronautical Engineering. He then worked in the Future Projects section with Hawker Siddeley on Harrier development and early Hawk configuration wind tunnel testing.

He joined the AAIB as an investigator in 1972 and was engaged in accident investigations throughout Europe, Africa, North, Central and South America. He also, as the Investigator-in-Charge, has been responsible for both the conduct of investigations into a number of large public transport accidents and the published reports. These include the BAC 1-11 windscreen loss, the August 1993 Airbus A320 ‘floating’ spoiler event and the February 1995 Boeing 737 double engine oil loss incident. All of these investigations focussed on and developed knowledge in the area of maintenance activity related Human Factors. The substance of these investigations have formed the core of presentation on Human Factors in engineering to ISASI, in North America and New Zealand and to a number of RAeS audiences.

He obtained a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from The City University in 1991, is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society. In 1999 he was awarded the Honorary Degree of ‘Doctor of Engineering’ by Kingston University in recognition of more than 25 years contribution to aircraft accident investigation.

David is the President of the European Society of Air Safety Investigators (ESASI), a division of ISASI, a Trustee of CHIRP and Chairman of the CHIRP Maintenance Error Management Systems Review Board. He was recently appointed a visiting Professor of Cranfield University assigned to the School of Engineering.

He holds a current multi-engine Private Pilots Licence with an unrestricted Instrument rating.

David is married to Patricia with two sons.