Biography: Robert Joslin

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Chief Scientific and Technical Advisor for Flight Deck Technology Integration

Robert Joslin comes to the CSTA-Flight Management position with 30 years of military aviation experience and 5 years of FAA experience in all types of military and civil jet, propeller, helicopter, and tilt-rotor aircraft. Since September 2005 he has served as a FAA Flight Test pilot, first with the Atlanta Aircraft Certification Office and then the Fort Worth Special Certification Office, involved in the certification of some of the latest technologies such as Synthetic Vision, Enhanced Flight Vision, Electronic Flight Bags, LPV/WAAS, RNP/SAAR, Glass Cockpits, and RAAS in various aircraft. Previously Mr. Joslin was a Colonel in the United States Marine Corps and a military experimental test pilot at the Naval Air Test Centers in Patuxent River and China Lake, involved in the early research and development of GPS, FLIR, NVGs and HUD in various military aircraft. He was the Commander of Defense Contract Management Agency-Bell Helicopter responsible for the initial production, acceptance, and delivery of the V-22 tilt-rotor aircraft. He also was a pilot for the President of the United States under the Bush Sr. administration, a 1994 NASA Astronaut Candidate finalist, an Assistant Professor of Aerodynamics and Aviation Safety at the Naval Postgraduate School, and is completely bilingual English-Spanish having been raised in Latin America. Mr. Joslin has extensive international experience living and working in aviation and aviation flight test centers worldwide, to include 3 years in Japan, and has over 50 published manuscripts in various aviation periodicals. He is qualified in AMEL, ASEL, AMES, ASES, Powered-Lift and Rotorcraft-Helicopter with type ratings in the A-320, B-737, BE-200, BV-107, DA-2Easy, G-V, N-265, SA-227, and SK-61 as well CFI , CFII for Airplane and Rotorcraft.

• Member-Society of Experimental Test Pilots (SETP)
• Member-International Society of Air Safety Investigators (ISASI)
• Federal Aviation Safety Officer, Interagency Committee for Aviation Policy (ICAP)

• �Contributor of the Year�, Approach magazine
• �Scribe of the Year�, Rotor Review magazine
• �Grampaw Pettibone� award�, National Naval Aviation Museum
• White House Aircraft Commander-Presidential Pilot

• Selected for inaugural class and pursuing a Ph.D. in Aviation, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University
• Assistant Professor of Aerodynamics and Aviation Safety, Naval Postgraduate School
• Engineering Test Pilot, U.S. Naval Test Pilot School
• M.S. in Aeronautical Engineering, Naval Postgraduate School
• B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Florida