Kevin Burns

Air Traffic Control experience. Part time tower assistant to FISO logging aircraft movements and preparing flight progress strips as required. Liaison with pilots to file flight plans using AFPEX (Assisted Flight Planning Exchange) and monitoring Eurocontrol NMOC (Network Manager Operations Centre) on line systems for small airline operations flow and capacity management. Liasion with Heathrow and Farnborough control centres for local movements and LACC (London Area Control Centre) for aircraft entry into the airways system. Airfield ground support operator responsible for conducting runway and taxy way checks, fuel contamination checks and refuelling business jets and light aircraft. Customer fuel sales and updating of fuel database for accounting purposes. Qualifications CAA FISO (Flight Information Service Officer) - 2013. CAA ROCC (Radio Operators Certificate of Competence) - 2014.

Current British passport and UK driving licence. Current RAF gliding medical. UK national security system vetted.

Qualified Unit Navigation Officer at 618 VGS (Volunteer Gliding Squadron) responsible for training, mission planning and leading aircraft deployments when required. Deployments included, Manston, Syerston, Lyneham and Colerne. Training included presenting ground lectures and airborne teaching and assessment of dead reckoning navigation technique in Grob 109B motor glider.

Programming in 'C' course (Bracknell College - 1993). SQL database course (Bracknell College - 1995). HTML (HyperText Markup Language) course (RAF Odiham - 2008) Access database course (RAF Odiham) - 2010.

1991 and various dates since. PPL (Private Pilot Licence), night rating, TMG (Touring Motor Glider) rating - 1991. British Gliding Association Bronze 'C' & Diamond height gain (27'700 feet) - 2000. RAF 'B' category flying instructor awarded by Central Flying School - 2004. ILM (Institute of Leadership and Management) Level 1 (RAF Cranwell) - 2007. Approx 1500 hours total flying time on a range of single engine piston light aircraft and gliders. 1200 hours flying at several RAF Volunteer Gliding Squadrons around the UK as a glider and motor-glider instructor pilot teaching cadets to fly to solo and advanced standard. Also flown in France, USA, Brazil and New Zealand as private pilot. Fast jet experience in Jet Provost. Intend to conduct IMC (Instrument Meteorological Conditions) qualification in April 2017.

2007 to 2016 and previously as Civilian Instructor. Reserve officer in Royal Air Force (no overseas commitment) serving as Flight Lieutenant VR(T) on 618 Volunteer Gliding Squadron RAF Odiham to teach air cadet students to solo standard. Member of executive team with previous posts as Adjutant, Training Officer, Engineering Officer, Safety Officer and Supply Officer. Weekend duties included organisation of tasks for up to 15 staff, liaison with Operations, Air Traffic and other airfield users. Daily activities as duty instructor included meteorology report assessment, aircraft air worthiness assessment, staff briefing and task setting and oversight. Teaching subjects included principles of flight, meteorology, human factors, aircraft structures and practical experience in three screen x-plane flight simulators for both cadets and staff. Daily operations also included use of the UK military flight planning CADS (Central Aviation Data Services) system to define operations for safety reasons. Occasional role as note taking assistant during two crew airborne flight testing after aircraft maintenance