That new face at Flight Safety Foundation is me, Kevin Hiatt, and I’d like to introduce myself. I joined the Foundation in early July. In my role as executive vice president, I have been charged by the Executive Committee of the FSF Board of Governors to oversee the daily operations of the staff, support President and Chief Executive Officer Bill Voss and provide additional aviation safety insight.
My professional aviation career began in 1976 when I graduated from the Aviation Technology program at Purdue University. At that time, the U.S. military was not inducting any new pilots, so I stayed on the civilian side of flying and took the classic entry-level job — flight instructor. That progressed into an opportunity to fly for a corporation in larger multi-engine aircraft. After a few years in that segment of the industry, I started flying for what was then called a commuter airline, the forerunner of the industry segment now known as regional airlines. It was there that I firs…
