European Flight Test Safety Award
The European Flight Test Safety Award was created after the fatal accident of test pilot Gérard Guillaumaud by his fiancée Heidi Biermeier. The regulations of the award state that recipients must be individuals who made significant contributions in the area of safety within flight testing.
Award Ceremonies
The award was first granted in October 2007 in London at the award dinner concluding the 1st European Flight Test Safety Workshops. The workshop is hosted by the Flight Test Safety Committee of Society of Experimental Test Pilots (SETP) and of Society of Flight Test Engineers (SFTE). In London the workshop was held in the premises of the Royal Aeronautical Society. The recipient is nominated by a jury, consisting of three flight test experts. Up to now the award was granted four times. In November 2008 the workshop was held in Amsterdam, 2009 in Vienna and 2010 it was again held in London. In 2011 the workshop will be held in Salzburg.
There is also an annual North American Flight Test Safety Workshop.
Recipients
- 2007 Dipl.-Ing. Dr.-Ing. Dieter W. Reisinger, MSc (Austrian Airlines)
- 2008 Gérard Temme of CertiFlyer B.V.
- 2009 Patrick L. Svatek, (Flight test engineer at NAVAIR, now USNTPS Patuxent River)
- 2010 Billie Flynn, (Experimental Test Pilot) Lockheed Martin,
- 2011