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SMS, or Safety Management System, is the most effective safety framework to be introduced in many years. It is based on solid research, was tested initially in Canada, and is now established by EASA and the FAA as the accepted standard on which airlines, airports, and manufacturers are measured for their in-house safety structure. SMS has four pillars: 1) Safety Policy and Objectives, 2) Risk Management, 3) Safety Assurance, and 4) Safety Promotion. Each pillar requires planning and work, but when established together, they will very effectively work within an organization and generate a positive safety culture.

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Terry was a USAF fighter pilot, having flown the F-4 Phantom II, A-10, and F-16 operationally.  He has a degree in Aero Engineering from the University of Michigan and used that expertise while assigned to the F-16 Program Office during Full Scale Development.  He attended the USAF Test Pilot School and served as an instructor pilot there.  Prior to becoming an airline pilot, he flew as an instructor pilot for Calspan, flying the variable-stability Learjet and NT-33A.  Terry evaluated all the new FBW transport aircraft coming into commercial service, which led to becoming an experimental test pilot for Airbus in Toulouse, France.  He has extensive experimental, developmental, and production flight test experience with all Airbus models, including the A-380 and A-400M.  Testing included flight controls, stalls, braking, natural icing, sharklets, and numerous other tests required for certification.  Terry was Captain for the first flight of the Trent XWB-79 rated at 78,900 lbs. thrust mounted on the No. 2 pylon of an A-380 configured as a flying test bed.  The first flight took the engine to full A380 flight envelope limits, including flutter testing at the Vmo/Mmo intersection.  Terry is a Fellow in the Society of Experimental Test Pilots and a Member in the Society of Flight Test Engineers.

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