WELCOME TO GATE
GATE - Gulf Aviation Training Event - will take place on 14 & 15 November 2011 during the Dubai Airshow. Conference Director, Captain Ed Davidson, has lined up top air transport flight training professionals to discuss the pressing need for more comprehensive flight crew training in a region which is seeing accelerated growth in air transport. GATE will bring industry players together to discuss the challenges and seek solutions to what will be an exciting time for this region’s air transport business.
Keynotes Captain J. Randolph Babbitt, Administrator US FAA and William R Voss, President & CEO FSF.
Randy Babbitt was sworn in as the FAA’s sixteenth administrator on June 1, 2009. Babbitt comes to the FAA from Oliver Wyman, an international management consulting firm where he served as a partner. A veteran airline pilot and internationally recognized expert in aviation and labor relations, Babbitt is no stranger to the FAA. He has been a member of the agency’s Management Advisory Council since 2001. In that capacity, he provided guidance to the FAA Administrator on a variety of topics, ranging from air traffic modernization to regulatory policy. He was chairman of the council from 2004-2006. He also was appointed by DOT Secretary Mary Peters to be a member of a special Internal Review Team to assess safety oversight within the airline industry and the FAA. Babbitt had been the founding partner of Eclat Consulting, a highly successful aviation firm, in 2001 and was the President and CEO until Eclat was acquired by Oliver Wyman in 2007. Babbitt began his aviation career as a pilot, flying 25 years for Eastern Airlines and rising to the rank of Captain. A skilled negotiator, he served as President and CEO for US ALPA, the world’s largest professional organization of airline pilots. While at ALPA, he championed the “One Level of Safety” initiative implemented in 1995 to improve safety standards across the industry. He also promoted the international expansion of ALPA through a merger with the Canadian Air Line Pilots Association in 1997. He was recently recognized by Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine with the Laurels Award for outstanding achievement in the Commercial Air Transport industry.
GATE - Gulf Aviation Training Event - will take place on 14 & 15 November 2011 during the Dubai Airshow. Conference Director, Captain Ed Davidson, has lined up top air transport flight training professionals to discuss the pressing need for more comprehensive flight crew training in a region which is seeing accelerated growth in air transport. GATE will bring industry players together to discuss the challenges and seek solutions to what will be an exciting time for this region’s air transport business.
Keynotes Captain J. Randolph Babbitt, Administrator US FAA and William R Voss, President & CEO FSF.
Captain J. Randolph Babbitt
Administrator / US Federal Aviation Administration
Randy Babbitt was sworn in as the FAA’s sixteenth administrator on June 1, 2009. Babbitt comes to the FAA from Oliver Wyman, an international management consulting firm where he served as a partner. A veteran airline pilot and internationally recognized expert in aviation and labor relations, Babbitt is no stranger to the FAA. He has been a member of the agency’s Management Advisory Council since 2001. In that capacity, he provided guidance to the FAA Administrator on a variety of topics, ranging from air traffic modernization to regulatory policy. He was chairman of the council from 2004-2006. He also was appointed by DOT Secretary Mary Peters to be a member of a special Internal Review Team to assess safety oversight within the airline industry and the FAA. Babbitt had been the founding partner of Eclat Consulting, a highly successful aviation firm, in 2001 and was the President and CEO until Eclat was acquired by Oliver Wyman in 2007. Babbitt began his aviation career as a pilot, flying 25 years for Eastern Airlines and rising to the rank of Captain. A skilled negotiator, he served as President and CEO for US ALPA, the world’s largest professional organization of airline pilots. While at ALPA, he championed the “One Level of Safety” initiative implemented in 1995 to improve safety standards across the industry. He also promoted the international expansion of ALPA through a merger with the Canadian Air Line Pilots Association in 1997. He was recently recognized by Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine with the Laurels Award for outstanding achievement in the Commercial Air Transport industry. 
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