David Kern

David Kern is a graduate of the US Air Force Test Pilot School and US Air Force Academy. David is an Associate Fellow with the Society of Experimental Test Pilots, Member of the Society of Flight Test Engineers, and currently serves as a flight test pilot for the Aircraft Certification Service with the Federal Aviation Administration. He holds an Airline Transport Pilot certificate with seven type ratings, and has logged time at the controls of over 80 different types of aircraft. In 2011, he was the USAF F-16 project test pilot for the Collier Trophy-winning Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System (AGCAS). David is a devoted husband, proud father of two awesome kids, and when not flying all kinds of aircraft enjoys woodworking, camping, hiking, cooking and music. His previous publications include "Flight Test Techniques for Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) Radar", and "Accelerated Development of Flight Tested Sensors and Systems" (AIAA # 2009-1744).