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Author: David
Robson
David Robson is a career
aviator having been nurtured on balsa wood, dope (the legal kind) and tissue
paper. He made his first solo flight shortly after his seventheenth
Birthday, having made his first parachute jump just after his sixteenth. His
first job was as a junior draftsman (they weren't persons in those days) at
the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation in Melbourne, Australia. At that time
he was also learning to fly de Havilland Chipmunks with the Royal Victorial
Aero Club.
He joined the Royal Australian Air Force in 1965 and served for twenty-one
years as a fighter pilot and test pilot. He flew over 1,000 hours on Mirages
and 500 on Sabres (F-86). He completed the Empire Test Pilots' course in
England in 1972, flying everything from gliders to Lightning fighters and
Argosy transport aircraft. He completed a tour in Vietnam as a forward air
controller flying the USAF O-2A (Oscar Deuce). In 1972 he was a member of
the Mirage formation aerobatic team, the Deltas, which celebrated the RAAF's
50th anniversary.
After retiring from the Air Force he became a civilian instructor and
lecturer and spent over ten years with the Australian Aviation College, a
specialized international school for airline cadet pilots. During 1986-88 he
was the editor of the national safety magazine, the Aviation Safety Digest,
which won the Flight Safety Foundation's international award. He was
recently awarded the Australian Safety Foundation's Certificate for Air
Safety.
David holds an ATP license and instructor's rating. His particular ambition
is to see the standard of flight and ground instruction improved and for
aviation instruction to be recognized as a career and be adequately
rewarded.
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