Max Trescott | back to Flight Crew

Summary
Max started taking flying lessons when he was 15 years old. He graduated from Swarthmore College in 1978 with a B.A. in Psychology and in 1979 with a B.S. in electrical engineering. He holds an MBA with concentrations in management strategy and marketing from the New York University Stern School of Business. He worked as an engineer in 1977 and 1978 for CBS at their WCAU-AM and WCAU-FM stations in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania before joining Hewlett-Packard in September, 1979 at the New Jersey Division in Rockaway, New Jersey, and later taking a position in 1988, their corporate headquarters in Palo Alto, California. He worked in a variety of marketing, sales and management positions in several Silicon Valley locations until leaving to concentrate on aviation, both teaching and publishing through his firm, Glass Cockpit Publishing. Max also publishes the free online safety newsletter Pilot Safety News.

Max holds an Airline Transport Pilot Certificate and is an FAA Gold Seal Certified Flight Instructor (CF). He has been trained at the Cessna, Cirrus Design, and Columbia Aircraft factories as a glass cockpit Certificated Flight Instructor. Max is passionate about preserving and growing general aviation in the U.S. so that it remains available for future generations. He became active to help save the Reid-Hillview Airport, when it was being studied for possible closure by the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors. He has often called upon the FAA to adopt more aggressive safety standards for general aviation. including urging pilots to submit comments on the FAA's NPRM (Notice of Proposed Rulemaking) to require ADS-B Traffic Safety equipment in aircraft by the year 2020. He has worked to persuade the FAA that the current proposal can be improved upon so that it delivers the right benefits at the lowest cost. Max was designated by the National Association of Flight Instructors as both a Master CFI and a Master Ground Instructor, and was awarded the honor of becoming the 2008 National Flight Instructor of the Year by the Airline Owners and Pilot's Association. Max is a frequent speaker at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh and Sun 'n Fun, and at AOPA special events.

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