The National Business Aviation Association presents Pilot Flying Safety Awards each year to the member company pilots who have exemplary safety records. To be eligible for an award, a pilot must have flown corporate aircraft 1,500 hours without an accident, but the actual number of safe hours flown by many of the 2010 top pilots are above 20,000 hours, and the top recipient, T. William White, chief pilot of the Keller Companies, has logged 31,264.
Like White, Paul Stinebring, director of International Operations for Emerson Flight Operations, second on the list with 26,930 hours; J. Paul Boening of Keller Companies; Ken Qualls of Flight Management Solutions and George Thomsen of ACP Jets, have appeared in these pages before. AIN this year talked with four other top pilots–Bill Starnes, Stuart Swanson, Norman Anderson and Dennis Oliver–to learn their safe-flying secrets. The Flying Safety Awards will be presented today, at the VIP luncheon (by invitation only).