ANTTI TUORI
Pilot's health - risks and solutions
Dr Antti Tuori is an active pilot and aeromedical examiner. He graduated from med school (University of Helsinki) in 1996, defended his thesis (University of Helsinki) in 1998 and started to work as an EASA aeromedical examiner in 2013. He started flying at Finnair in 2002 and has flow as a first officer in A320, A330 & A340, and as a captain in A320. He is currently flying as a captain in A320 and A330.
Antti Tuori is vice-chair of the International Federation of Airline Pilots’ Association’s (IFALPA’s) Human Performance (HUPER) Committee and is responsible for medical matters at IFALPA. He has been involved in the EASA medical rulemaking tasks and is part of EASA’s Medical Expert Group. He has participated to different ICAO medical activities, including ICAO Medical Provision Study Group and Fitness to Fly booklet.
HARRY NELSON
Are we ready for the challenges of tomorrow?
Harry Nelson is an ex pilot who is in his 4th career period. 12 years in the Royal Air Force was followed by 21 years working for BAe Systems. Airbus followed and was made up of 13 years in Flight Test and 5 years in the Product Safety Department. For the last 3 years he has run his own consultancy specialising in Human Performance in the field of Safety and Flight Operations.
This 54 year career has involved flying 75 plus types of aircraft. He was a “straight through” flight instructor and then the youngest RAF Vulcan bomber Captain at 23 years of age. His test career started on the Blind Landing Experimental Unit. He also served BAe Systems, at Board level, as Projects, Manufacturing and Quality Director.
But his passion is working with people and helping them to achieve things that they initially would not consider possible like setting up the Airbus final assembly line in China, from waste land site to first flight in under 3 years.
Despite all this he feels that his best is yet to come.
HLÍN HÓLM
NAT SPG
Hlín Hólm is the head of the ANS section at the Iceland Transport Authority and the Chair of NAT SPG, the ICAO North-Atlantic Systems Planning Group. She has worked for the Transport Authority since 2007 and worked on projects that have to do with certification and supervision in air navigation as well as the use and air traffic management. From 1987-2006, Hlín worked as an air traffic controler, and was chief seargent in the Reykjavík Airport Air Traffic Control Tower and in the Aerial Control Centre. Hlín has a a BA in psychology from the University of Iceland and a MSc degree from the University of Cranfield, UK, in Human Factors and Safety Asseessment in Aeronautics.
As mentioned above, Hlín is the Chair of NAT SPG, which is responsible for the continuous study and evaluation of Air Navigation systems in the NAT and ensuring that it is in line with global navigation plans and ICAO’s flight safety plan. NAT SPG leads the adaption of new technology, working methods, and standards in light of technological advancements and other changes. Under the planning group are several expert committees that specialize in aviation safety, working methods, air traffic control systems and aircraft. She was voted as chair in June 2019, but has been active in NAT SPG’s operations since 2007.
Rory Clarkson
Volcanic ash and aviation - 10 years from Eyjafjallajökull
Dr Rory Clarkson completed a Bachelor’s Degree and Doctorate (PhD) in mechanical engineering. After periods in the nuclear and commercial software industries he joined Rolls-Royce plc in 1997 as a thermo-fluids specialist, helping design aircraft gas turbine engines. Since the end of 2010 he has led the team responsible for ensuring Rolls-Royce engines can operate acceptably in the extremes of environment they are likely to encounter, extremes caused by water (rain, hail and icing conditions), sand, dust, volcanic ash and chemical pollutants. His expertise and standing within the aviation industry in these fields was recognized by Rolls-Royce when he was elected as an Engineering Associate Fellow in 2017.
With regard to the topic of volcanic ash, Dr Clarkson is widely recognized as the global expert on the effects volcanic ash has on gas turbine engines; he has advised regulatory bodies, governments and key military and civil aviation stakeholders on how volcanic ash affects aviation. He has received two awards for his work; the 2016 Institution of Mechanical Engineers Derek Astridge Safety Award and the 2018 UK Civil Aviation Authority Flight Safety Award.
SARA BARSOTTI
Responding to explosive eruptions in Iceland: Changes and improvements over the last 10 years
Dr Sara Barsotti obtained her Ph.D. in “Numerical modelling for the environmental protection” at Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna (2006) after a Ms.D. in Physics at University of Pisa (2002). In the period 2006-2013 she worked at the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Sezione di Pisa (Italy). Since then she is working at Icelandic Meteorological Office as Coordinator for volcanic hazards at the Volcano Observatory. Her research topics mostly involve Eulerian-Lagrangian modelling and numerical simulation of volcanic processes. In particular, she works on the dynamics of tephra dispersal processes and ash fall-out as well as volcanic gases transport. Aerial ash cloud transport and implications for aviation safety is part of her daily job. She has also deep experience on volcanic ash hazard assessment through forecasting and probabilistic approaches. Volcanic hazard communication and mitigation for the population is currently one of the main target of her activity. She works to establish procedures and protocols on how to respond to the next eruption in Iceland. SB applied her main expertise to several volcanoes worldwide: Italy, Alaska, Iceland, Indonesia, Greece, Lesser Antilles. She is member of VASAG (Volcanic Ash Scientific Advisory Group) and leader of the IAVCEI commission on Tephra Hazard Modelling. Dr Sara Barsotti is and has been involved in several European and International collaborations and projects.