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Captain Bob Norris
   
Captain Bob Norris has worked as a general aviation instructor and has flight experience in aircraft ranging from J-3s to DC-10s. He holds an Airline Transport Pilot certificate, Aircraft Dispatcher, and a Flight Engineer certificate for reciprocating and turbojet powered aircraft.
     Bob graduated from Embry Riddle University with a degree in Professional Aeronautics. He spent ten years as an Engineering Psychologist for Hughes Aircraft Company with assignments in space systems, flight simulation and weapons systems development.
     Captain Norris recently retired from a major international carrier after a full career as a flight instructor, pilot examiner, Airline Training Check Airman, and flight manager. He has also participated  in air carrier special projects, including acting as interview Captain on the pilot hiring board.
     Captain Norris is qualified on B-727, B-737, Caravelle, DC-6, DC-7, DC-8, and DC-10 aircraft with captain qualifications on the DC-8, DC-10, B-737, B-757, and 767. His last assignment with the airline was as a Training Captain on the B-757 and B-767.
 

Captain Jerry Blalock
    
Captain Blalock has a B.S. in Business Administration with a major in Marketing from the University of California, Berkeley. He served eleven years in the Air Force on active duty and, in 1976, retired from the Ready Reserves as a Lieutenant Colonel, Command Pilot, Instructor Pilot (IP), and a Group Chief of Standardization with 23 years of total service. His military aircraft experience ranged from T-33, C-123, C119, to C130's.
     Captain Blalock was hired by a major international carrier in February, 1968. He served at their training center as a Training Check Airman (TCA). In this capacity he trained upgrade crews in the B-767/757 aircraft and simulators, conducted recurrent simulator checks ("PC's"), and was an FAA Designee Examiner. Captain Blalock recently retired from the airline after a 27 year career, which included flight experience in B-737, B-727, DC-8, DC-10, and B-767/757 aircraft.
     Captain Blalock is an active member of the ACS Interview Staff, and is a member of the CRM facility.

 

Captain Bert Botta
     During Captain Botta's twenty six year flying career at TWA he was a designated FAA check airman and line pilot instructor on the DC9/MD80. He holds ATP ratings in the CE650, DC9/MD80, L1011 and DC3.
     Captain Botta was the professional standards committee chairman at TWA for the Airline Pilots Association during the TWA/Ozark merger in the late 1980's. He retired early from TWA to pursue a career as a professional counselor and personal leadership trainer. He has a Master's degree in Counseling Psychology and maintained a private practice as a counselor and consultant to the airline industry.
     One of Captain Botta's primary interests is combining his love for flying with that of coaching people to their highest accomplishments. He is also a free lance writer and focuses much of his writing on the growing need for better human relations within the rapidly changing field of aviation. He returned to flying in 2000 and is currently a first officer on the Citation VII for Executive Jet Aviation out of the SFO gateway. He brings a current, fresh, involved perspective to his work as part of the interview staff at ACS.

 

Captain Ed Daley
    
Captain Daley is a veteran of more than 40 years in the aerospace industry. He graduated from the Academy of Aeronautics in New York and joined a major air carrier as an aircraft mechanic. He later entered pilot training in the USAF and flew the F-105 on active duty. Upon release from service, he rejoined the airline as a pilot. Captain Daley recently retired after a 35-year career, which included domestic and international flight experience in aircraft ranging from the DC-6 to the B-747-400. For the last eleven years of his career he served in management, with his last five years as Chief Pilot.
     Captain Daley was employed as an analyst at the NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System, and also owns and operates a consulting firm specializing in spaceflight operations, crew safety and aerospace education.
     Captain Daley is senior member of the ACS Interview Staff and a member of the CRM facility.

 

Captain Rich Wright
    
Captain Rich Wright is currently a Boeing 747-400 captain and line check pilot for Atlas Air. With over 14,000 hours and typed in the B-747, B-727, CE-500, G-1159 and G-IV, he has extensive domestic and international flight experience. Captain Wright is also a qualified Airframe and Powerplant Mechanic and has served as a Flight Engineer on the Boeing 747/707/727 aircraft. He is an experienced flight, ground and simulator instructor with numerous management assignments. After graduating Magna Cum Laude with a Masters Degree from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University he became a faculty member. While flying the line he has been teaching airline new hire candidates how to pass the simulator check ride and coaching for the Captains Board Interview. As a recent addition to ACS, he brings extensive real world current experience to the staff.

 

Captain Don Roszel
     Captain Roszel is a 37 year veteran of a major international carrier. He began his career as the Eastern Region Employment Manager, overseeing recruitment of Pilots, Mechanics, Flight Attendants, and Public Contact employees. He also managed the college recruitment program for technical and professional candidates. In 1967, Don transferred to Flight Operations to begin a long career as a pilot.
     Over the next 31 years, he qualified on B-727, DC-8, DC-10, B-757/767, and B-747-400 aircraft, flying domestic and international routes. In 1989, Don was assigned as a Training Check Airman in the B-757/767 Fleet. Don also served in ALPA as the Grievance Committee Chairman, representing line pilots on contract interpretation issues. He later accepted an appointment as a Flight Manager in San Francisco, eventually rising to the position of Chief Pilot. He retired from active airline service in 1998.
     Captain Roszel holds degrees in Industrial & Labor Relations from Cornell University and Golden Gate University, and a Law degree from the University of California at Berkeley. He is an active member of the ACS Interview Staff.

 

Dee Norris - VP Administration
     Dee is in charge of the day-to-day operational/administration and marketing aspects of Aviation Consulting Services. Her background as co-owner and administrative assistant to one of the West Coast's largest FAA 141 flight schools gives her the depth of experience and sensitivity to meet the demanding needs of ACS clients. She gained her marketing experience as a consultant to the McDonald Corporation and is an accomplished artist. As a Private Pilot she understands the technical aspects of the operation, and as a world traveler she is comfortable in most environments.

 

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