Max Trescott

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Max Trescott (born September 22, 1956) is an author, General Aviation advocate, and the 2008 National Certificated Flight Instructor of the Year.^[1] Based in the San Francisco Bay area, he runs Glass Cockpit Publishing, speaks at aviation events, and gives flight instruction in advanced glass cockpit aircraft^[2].

1 Background
2 Thought
3 Works
4 References
5 External Links

[edit] Background

Max started taking flying lessons when he was 15 years old.^[3] He graduated from Swarthmore College in 1978 with a B.A. in Psychology and in 1979 with a B.S. in electrical engineering^[4]. He holds a MBA with concentrations in management strategy and marketing from the New York University Stern School of Business. He worked part-time as a disk jockey from 1972 through 1979 at several radio stations and worked as an engineer in 1977 and 1978 for CBS at their owned and operated WCAU-AM and WCAU-FM stations in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

He joined Hewlett-Packard in September, 1979 at the New Jersey Division in Rockaway, New Jersey. In February, 1988, he took a position at HP’s corporate headquarters in Palo Alto, California. He worked in a variety of marketing, sales and management positions in several Silicon Valley locations until he left HP in 2004 to start Glass Cockpit Publishing. He also publishes the free online safety newsletter Pilot Safety News

He holds an Airline Transport Certificate and is a FAA Gold Seal CFI,^[5] and has been trained at the Cessna, Cirrus Design and Columbia Aircraft factories as a glass cockpit Certificated Flight Instructor.

He's been designated by the National Association of Flight Instructors as both a Master CFI and a Master Ground Instructor.^[6] He is a frequent speaker at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh^[7] and Sun 'n Fun.

[edit] Thought

Max is passionate about preserving and growing general aviation in the U.S. so that it remains available for future generations, according to his Max Trescott on General Aviation blog. He has urged pilots to act to help save the Reid-Hillview Airport, which is being studied for possible closure by the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors. He's called upon the FAA to adopt more aggressive safety standards for general aviation.^[8] He also urged pilots to submit comments on the FAA's NPRM (Notice of Proposed Rulemaking) to require ADS-B equipment in aircraft by the year 2020. In his comments to the FAA, he said that the current proposal could be improved upon so that it delivers the right benefits at the lowest cost.^[9]