Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Certification
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Christopher Fowler

Christopher Fowler

Waxahachie,TX

Summary

Motivated Flight Instructor with integrated technology expertise provides classroom atmosphere conducive to continuous learning and student retention. Demonstrated experience and success teaching adult learners. Promotes student success through timely communication, growth-based feedback and strategy implementation that meet student needs.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Flight Instructor

Army National Gaurd
11.2020 - Current
  • Created instructional material and training syllabi for specific areas of ground and flight training.
  • Adjusted and aligned course material to meet individual needs.
  • Trained individual crew members through theoretical and practical flight instruction.
  • Introduced students to procedures and standard flight techniques.
  • Planned, forecasted, managed and scheduled training resources to support 6-8 training flights per week.
  • Progressed multiple crew engineers through a structured training regime to be signed off as flight engineers.
  • Verified safety of students while using aircrafts by performing regular inspections of aircrafts, checking weather reports and matching level of competence of students to complex training and instructions.

Flight Engineer

Army National Guard
12.2016 - Current
  • Used calibrated hand tools and power tools to assemble and install electrical, avionics, mechanical and structural assemblies and components.
  • Performed pre-flight inspections to prepare for flight.
  • Troubleshot in-flight mechanical and operational issues and restored functionality.
  • Performed comprehensive checklists prior to takeoff to reduce possible safety issues.
  • Executed emergency procedures to maintain passenger and cargo safety during unexpected circumstances.
  • Monitored maintenance panel to verify aircraft performance, and relayed any maintenance issues and possible corrections to the pilots.
  • Modified designs to improve safety features and minimize fuel consumption and pollution.
  • Verified passenger and cargo distribution and amount of fuel to meet weight and balance specifications.

Flight Engineer

Army
05.2014 - 12.2016
  • Trained subordinate crew chief and assigned door gunners in simulator and on job locations.
  • Performed aircraft tear down and build up operations in and out of combat theaters for Air Mobility Transport.
  • Instructed fellow flight engineers as an acting unit trainer on extended range fuel system operations, degraded visual environment approaches, and pinnacle landings.
  • Completed over 250 combat mission totaling nearly 1.5 million pounds of cargo and 25,000 passengers without incident.
  • Conducted inspections of aircraft and associated systems by analyzing and correcting systems.
  • Performed pre-flight inspections to prepare for flight.

Aircraft Mechanic

Army
01.2012 - 05.2014
  • Performed aircraft maintenance for scheduled preventive actions and unscheduled requirements.
  • Maintained all aircraft in accordance with organizational maintenance requirements.
  • Removed and installed aircraft subsystem assemblies such as engines, rotors, gearboxes, transmissions, and mechanical flight controls.
  • Operated power tools, gauges and testing equipment to adjust, repair, and replace faulty components in aircrafts.
  • Maintained repair logs to document all corrective and preventive aircraft maintenance.
  • Performed aircraft corrosion control procedures.
  • Recorded maintenance actions in aircraft logbooks.

Education

High School Diploma -

Bloomfield Jr-Sr High School
Bloomfield, NE

Skills

  • Ground Instruction
  • Flight Navigation
  • Emergency Procedures
  • Curriculum Development
  • Performance Measurement
  • Classroom Instruction
  • Work Orders
  • Complex Problem-Solving
  • Educational Strategies

Accomplishments

  • Awarded 4 Air Medals, 2 with "C" device for combat operations over 4 combat deployments since 2012.
  • Approaching 2000 flight hours in the CH-47F Chinook with 1200 as a Flight Engineer and nearly 500 as a Flight Instructor.
  • Over 500 flight hours using night vision goggles, with a majority of the completed during combat operations.

Certification

  • Flight Instructor Training - 2020


Timeline

Flight Instructor

Army National Gaurd
11.2020 - Current

Flight Engineer

Army National Guard
12.2016 - Current

Flight Engineer

Army
05.2014 - 12.2016

Aircraft Mechanic

Army
01.2012 - 05.2014

High School Diploma -

Bloomfield Jr-Sr High School

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