Dr. Jeffery Schroeder is the FAA’s Chief Scientist and Technical Advisor (CSTA) for Flight Simulation Systems with 40 years of experience in and extensive publications on ground and in-flight simulation, flight dynamics, control systems, cockpit displays, human factors, and air traffic management. He was a primary contributor in the development of the FAA’s rules and guidance for aircraft upset training, has trained the FAA’s inspectors at the FAA Academy for upset training program approval, and currently advises scores of airlines in the development and refinement of their upset training programs. Dr. Schroeder’s principal activities include aircraft upset training practices, stabilized approach refinement, and flight simulator motion cueing research.

Before joining the FAA, Schroeder spent over 20 years at the NASA Ames Research Center, conducting a variety of piloted flight simulation studies with special emphasis on motion fidelity in the world’s largest flight simulator. He has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in dynamics and control at Stanford and San Jose State University. He is an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and a Fellow of The Royal Aeronautical Society. 

Dr. Schroeder earned his B.S. and M.S. in Aeronautics & Astronautics from Purdue University. He earned his Ph.D. in Aeronautics & Astronautics at Stanford University.