Volcanic Ash (SKYclip)
Volcanic Ash (SKYclip)
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Acknowledgements
Production of this SKYclip was led by John Barrass supported by EUROCONTROL and industry safety experts as well as the Flight Safety Foundation European Advisory Committee.
Contributors
Octavian Pleter
Dragica Stankovitch
Murray O’Shea
Tom Becker
Capt. Tom Becker is an airline pilot and safety professional with more than twenty years of experience in the field of aviation safety and human factors.
Tom is an active contributor and reviewer with SKYbrary and has been active in the Flight Safety Foundation’s European Advisory Committee. He has work experience as a Safety Manager, Safety Pilot, Aviation Auditor, Type Rating Instructor and Human Factors Facilitator.
Tom holds an MSc in Aviation Safety Management.
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John Barrass
Lt Col John Barrass has over 43 years experience in aviation. He spent 20 years with the RAF and RCAF in a variety of command, instructional and flying appointments culminating in command of a C130 tactical transport squadron. His operational experience includes demanding humanitarian operations in the Kashmir, Ethiopia, Somalia, Bosnia, and the Canadian Arctic.
He was first appointed a member of the Flight Safety Foundation European Advisory Committee (EAC) in 2001 when he was Manager Air Safety at the European Regions Airline Association. John has been involved in several of EUROCONTROL's safety improvement initiatives and has been involved in the HindSight and SKYbrary projects since their inception in 2006. He was editor of SKYbrary from 2010 to 2018 and is still active as the Integration Manager. John built most of the weather and climatology content on SKYbrary and is a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society (RMetS).
Alexander Krastev
Alexander Krastev is a senior safety expert at EUROCONTROL and his duties include management of the SKYbrary project. He is an experienced air traffic controller and former operational director at the Bulgarian air navigation service provider BULATSA.
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