Boyer
has served as president of AOPA for the past 16 years. Before
taking the left seat at AOPA, he was Senior Vice President/Development
for Capital Cities/ABC Video Enterprises, Inc. He has also
been a chapter president of the American Bonanza Society
and president of the Sacramento Valley Pilots Association,
and has been honored by the Federal Aviation Administration
for guiding a fellow pilot in distress to a safe landing. Boyer
has twice flown over the Atlantic as pilot-in-command of
a general aviation aircraft. Born and raised in Portland,
Oregon, AOPA's president is very familiar with the Pacific
Northwest.
Boyer speaks Saturday, February 23 at 1:00 pm in the keynote
speaker area.
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 JEFF RENNER
Weather Workshop
King 5 chief meteorologist,
Seattle Wa
Jeff Renner is the chief meteorologist for the weeknight
KING 5 News at 5, 6:30, 10 and 11 p.m. He also provides
weather forecasts for the Seattle Times. He has been rated
Seattle’s most accurate weather forecaster by a University
of Washington study, and has earned the American Meteorological
Society’s Seal of Approval. Renner joined KING 5
in 1977 as the station’s science reporter. In 1980,
he was named weather anchor and science editor.
After graduating from University of Wisconsin in 1975 with
a degree in journalism, Renner earned a bachelor of science
degree in atmospheric sciences at the University of Washington
in 1988. He holds a professional membership in the American
Meteorological Society. Renner is often called as an expert
witness in court cases involving meteorology. The Department
of the Army honored Renner with a Distinguished Services
Award for his work serving as an aviation meteorology instructor
for Army helicopter pilots in the Northwest. He is a board
member of the Pacific Science Center Science Advisory Council,
and on the advisory boards of Little Bit Therapeutic Riding
Center and Mt. Rainier Alpine Guides.
Renner is the author of Northwest Marine Weather, Northwest
Mountain Weather and Lightning Strikes: Surviving Thunderstorms,
all published by Mountaineer Books. In addition, he is a
contributing author of the new edition of Mountaineering;
Freedom of the Hills, the number one mountain climbing text
in the world.
Media Inc. and the Puget Sound Chapter of the American Marketing
Association recognized Renner’s expertise and work
in the community with the “1994 Person of the Year” award.
In 1996, Renner received the First Award for Distinguished
Service to Boaters from The Northwest Marine Trade Association.
In addition to his forecasting duties on KING 5 News, Renner
has been featured in KING 5 specials such as “The Mountain
Erupts,” “Under Puget Sound,” and “The
World of Flight.” In 1980, he was the station’s
chief reporter on the eruption of Mount St. Helens.
Twice a month Renner takes his KING 5 Weather Watch presentation
to a different school in Western Washington, offering students
a lesson on weather patterns and forecasting.
In addition to being an avid skier, scuba diver, equestrian,
climber and backpacker, Renner also holds a commercial pilot’s
license for land and seaplanes, and is a former certified
flight instructor. Renner lives in Sammamish with his wife
and son.
Renner speaks Saturday at 10:30 am in the Keynote speaker
area
 BRYAN WEBSTER
SAFETY - Underwater evacuation -
EGRESS TRAINING FOR PILOTS AND PASSENGERS
Aviation Egress Systems, Ltd. Victoria, BC
Resist the urge to unbuckle.
Webster's course begins discussion about ditching concepts,
safety tips and equipment, and escape procedures. This is
when we were taught to open the cabin door prior to ditching
so that the structural distortion of the fuselage that can
occur on impact does not jam the door and prevent escape.
Webster explained the need to remove and stow headsets and
other loose objects before ditching because they can become
projectiles upon impact with the water. Perhaps the most
critical lesson is to resist the temptation to hurriedly
release your seat belt and shoulder harness even if the aircraft
submerges and especially if it is inverted. Doing so can
cause you to begin floating in the cabin and perhaps into
the rear seat or tail cone where you could become trapped.
Disorientation at such a time is likely and the mere act
of locating the door and/or its handle can be difficult if
not impossible. Many have drowned because they had become
turned around and tried desperately to turn the door handle
in the wrong direction and wound up breaking it off instead,
forever sealing that exit and diminishing hope of survival.
Instead, the pilot needs to maintain his orientation, his
normal, relative position with respect to the door or emergency
exit. He should resist unbuckling himself until locating
the door, opening the exit, and creating an escape path
Bruce
Williams
 Bruce Williams worked on six versions of Microsoft Flight Simulator
during a 15-year career at Microsoft. His experience with the
development and design of Microsoft Flight Simulator included
consulting with leading aviation organizations and teaching
seminars about how to use Microsoft Flight Simulator as a training
aid. Bruce grew up in an Air Force family, and he has been
a pilot and aviation writer since the early 1970s. He remains
an active flight instructor at Galvin Flying Services in Seattle,
specializing in technically advanced aircraft, simulator instruction,
stall/spin/upset recovery training, and aerobatics. In early
2004, Bruce left Microsoft to devote full time to his consulting
company, BruceAir, LLC (www.BruceAir.com), which develops training
materials, provides flight training, and offers multimedia
presentations on a variety of topics for pilots and flight
instructors.
Dan Hargrove
Rocky Mountain College
Professor Dan Hargrove is the Director of Aviation, and oversees
all classroom instruction, flight training, and the overall
development of the program. Dan was a Distinguished Graduate
from the U. S. Air Force Academy in 1982, and majored in physics.
In the Air Force, he was an instructor pilot for four years
in the supersonic T-38. He then flew the C-141 Starlifter cargo
plane, carrying personnel and cargo all over the world. He
was airdrop and air refueling qualified, and flew numerous
missions during the Gulf War in 1991.
He earned a Master’s Degree from Montana State University
and taught engineering mechanics and physics at the Air Force
Academy and was an instructor pilot in primary flight training.
He then was selected to fly Boeing 757 VIP aircraft at Andrews
Air Force Base in Washington DC, where he served for seven
years. He was the Deputy Operations Group Commander over 700
people flying 37 aircraft. Their mission was to provide worldwide
air transportation for the Vice President, the First Lady,
the President’s cabinet and members of Congress. He flew
numerous Vice Presidential missions using the call sign, “Air
Force Two” and was flying the backup aircraft for the
President on September 11th, 2001.
Dan is an Airline Transport Pilot and Advanced Ground Instructor.
He has over 5000 flight hours of which over 2400 hours are
as a flight instructor and evaluator pilot. He teaches courses
in professional development, physics for aviation majors, and
crew resource management, among others. He believes his role
as a mentor is the most important part of his job. |
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