David HARRISON

Experience

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  Royal Air Force

  Mar 1980 - Jul 1980

  Initial Officer Training

  RAF Officer Cadet

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  RAF Finningley

  Sept 1980 - Jul 1982

  Navigation School No 6 Flying Training Squadron

  Student Navigator

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  57 Squadron Royal Air Force

  Jul 1982 - Dec 1984

  Navigator Radar

  Navigator (Radar) flying Victor K2 Tanker.Responsible for ac navigation using H2S Radar and Nav/Bomb computing system.Operator of the 3 hose refueling equipment to dispense fuel to RAF and NATO aircraft.Multiple sorties in South Atlantic area post Falklands War.

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  Royal Air Force

  Jan 1985 - Feb 1988

  Navigator Instructor- Tornado Weapons Conversion Unit Simulator Flight

  Navigator Instructor in Simulator Flight of Tornado Weapons Conversion Unit (TWCU-45R Squadron)Responsible for instruction of weapon delivery techniques to Tornado Conversion Course students.Ground instruction of Tornado technical subjects to Conversion Course students and TWCU Instructors.Supervision of TWCU Instructor monthly simulator sorties. Planning of simulator ground programme and design of Conversion Course Simulator Sortie content.

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  Royal Air Force

  Mar 1989 - Jul 2007

  Responsible to the aircraft captain for route, performance and fuel planning. Responsible to the aircraft captain for the safe navigation of the aircraft. Responsible to the aircraft captain for monitoring formation fuel during AAR. Responsible for leading mixed aircraft formations on overseas deployments and for fuel planning of individual receiver aircraft within the formation. Responsible for the daily tasking of Sqn aircrew, medium and long term planning of flying and simulator events and monitoring of BCRs Show less

  • Navigator Flight Instructor VC10 Training Flight 101 Squadron

    Jun 2005 - Jul 2007

  • Navigator: 10 Sqn operating the VC10 in the worldwide Air Transport and Air to Air Refuelling role

    Aug 2003 - Jun 2005

  • Air to Air Refuelling Controller

    Aug 2001 - Aug 2003

  • 10 Squadron - VC10 Navigator

    Jan 1994 - Aug 2001

  • Officer Commanding Flying Support Squadron

    Mar 1994 - Sept 1994

  • Officer Commanding Victor K2 Operations Squadron

    Jun 1992 - Mar 1994

  • 27 Squadron - Navigator Tornado GR1

    Mar 1989 - Jun 1992
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  RAFBF

  Jan 2000 - May 2016

  101 SQN CHAMPION

  Fund and awareness raising across RAF Brize Norton and the wider community.

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  101 Squadron Royal Air Force

  Jul 2007 - Sept 2013

  Navigator operating the VC10 in worldwide Air Transport and Air to Air Refuelling

  Responsible to the aircraft captain for route, performance and fuel planning. Responsible to the aircraft captain for the safe navigation of the aircraft. Responsible to the aircraft captain for monitoring formation fuel during AAR. Responsible for leading mixed aircraft formations on overseas deployments and for fuel planning of individual receiver aircraft within the formation. Responsible for the daily tasking of Sqn aircrew, medium and long term planning of flying and simulator events and monitoring of Basic Currency Requirements.Project Officer, Planner and Leader of Squadron Deployment of 1 VC10 and 30 personel to Kolkata, India in Oct 2010 as part of Ex INDRA DHANUSH 10.Navigator for high profile flypasts. Queen's Diamond Jubilee, Windsor 2012. Queen's Birthday 2008, 2009, 2010(lead VC10 pictured above), 2012, RAF 90th Anniversary Fairford 2008, VC10 40th Anniversary at RIAT with RAFAT 2006, N0 10 Sqn Disbandment 2005. Numerous Brize Norton and RAF Station Families' Days and events.Instructor on JTIDS/Link 16. Mentor to Sqn Navigators in AT and AAR roles.Navigator Section Leader 2001-13 Show less

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  The Open University

  Jan 2013 - Oct 2016

  Graduate Student

  Successfully completed BA (Hons) Open Degree.B201: Business organisations and their environments.B204: Making it happen! Leadership, influence and change.B628: Managing 1: Organisations and People.B325: Managing across Organisational and Cultural boundaries.B301: Making sense of Strategy.The focus was Leadership and Management.

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  Royal Air Force

  Sept 2013 - now

  Air to Air Refuelling Controller

  As below.Qualified Human Factors Facilitator and Instructor.From 11 May 16 RAF FTRSVolunteer with VC10 Preservation Trust maintaining ZD241 in a taxi condition.