For Celso Zoschke, the IATA Safety Management for Airlines Diploma is a passport to exciting, new opportunities.
Aviation has been in my life since I was about eight years old. I read all Saint-Exupéry’s and Richard Bach’s books, built countless model airplanes, and regularly visited our local airport with my brother, to persuade people to give us rides in their light aircraft. Naturally, I became a pilot; first flying parcel planes, then light business aircraft, and later Airbus passenger planes. I was also always involved in instruction and training, and this enabled me to make a switch to a big ATO as an instructor, policy/compliance manager and course designer after 19 years, to be more present for my family.
It was a very rich and fruitful experience that enabled me to see behind the scenes of aviation: how things are done, how departments work with each other; giving me a completely different perspective of the industry. Unfortunately, it was hit by the COVID crisis. I decided, therefore, to take a voluntary exit package that provided me with a training budget.
My career goal is to give back to the industry. I feel my hands-on knowledge, my passion for flying, my commitment to safety, which is a key enabler of aviation, will benefit any employer. And I wanted to add understanding of safety cultures and systems to my hands-on experience of the importance of safety because, firstly, I am passionate about the subject and believe we all should be. Secondly, I believe many opportunities will arise in this field and, by developing more competencies, I become an asset in a context of complex operations and a shortage of aviation professionals. Therefore, I’ll have more options as a jack of all trades: pilot, instructor, safety manager.
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