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t first sight, FOD and Habitat The determination of Heathrows Board
Management do not naturally go to continually improve airport operations is
together but to those of us who are demonstrated by significant financial investment.
used to the challenges of operating This investment is on-going and we are continually
modern airport safety management looking to improve our systems for managing FOD and
systems it is clear that there are common areas of Habitat-related risks, ensuring that we remain aware
risk and hazard associated with both. of the development of new technologies, products or
One such area is that of engine and/or aircraft methods
damage and we are all well aware of some of the high We continue to work with other Airports, Airlines,
profile events which have occurred as a result of FOD Ground Service Providers, Air Navigation Service
(Paris Concorde) and Birds (Hudson River). Provider and the Regulator to improve our Safety
At Heathrow we operate a FOD radar system which Management System.
has been installed on both runways since trials began Attending conferences such as this is essential to
in 2007. This system supports our well established maintaining that awareness and through building a
runway inspection regime and with around 40,000 network of like-minded safety professionals such as
aircraft movements per month we are well aware yourselves we know that we have access to shared
of the potential risks associated with FOD on our knowledge and expertise which is second to none.
runways. There are many procedures, programmes The aviation industry has an exceptional safety
John Hamshare
and technologies that are well established in both record which we can all be proud of and joining
Airside Policy and Oversight Manager,
commercial and military airports whether it is physical together at conferences such as this is just one way in
Heathrow Airport
inspections, portable radar, laser, sweeping systems which we can continue to play our parts in maintaining
or magnets. that record.
Our Bird Hazard Management Regime consists of a
comprehensive suite of measures ranging from liaison
with Local Planning Authorities, active control and to
rescuing injured or distressed swans from our land.
Heathrow Airport has a dedicated team of highly
trained professionals who tackle the issues of bird
hazard on a daily basis; this includes the use of a
long grass policy as suggested by international and
national good practice guidance. We know other
airports around the world including Seattle and

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Schiphol deploy Avian Radar, something we are
looking in to. Knowing the aerodrome ecology and
practical management of our habitat is key
to the use of grass alternatives or increasingly more
common application of hydro-seeding. Welcome from P3
The increased usage of UAVs is a potential Heathrow Airport
new threat to aviation and can be treated like a
bird or flying FOD When they are not regulated Speakers Biographies P6-9
or appropriately controlled they pose a threat to
aviation. Likewise we are seeing an increase in their Programme P10-11
usage at aerodrome for Security and Maintenance
purpose. With this emerging approach, we were keen Floor Plan P14-15
to include on the programme.

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 Aviation Events International Your FAHM 2015 Organisers

Who are AEI?

The AEI team have vast experience and skills in aviation, including technical topics such as airside operations,
landside operations and safety. This mixed with many years of aviation publishing and event/exhibition
experience allows us to work together on our combined key skill...founding, creating, and producing
international aviation events for the industry.

AEI conferences/airside events/demo days make it possible for airport equipment procurement heads and
suppliers to come together with a common goal on niche topics.

AEI works directly in partnership with our colleagues at many key associations,
including EASA, ICAO, EUROCAE, Eurocontrol, CAA, Met Office, ADV, SAE, and FAA.
Over the years, individual AEI Team members have been responsible for founding, creating and managing
many aviation events for other companies. These include:

WOASI 2014
(Winter Ops & Airside Safety International - Hosted by Frankfurt Airport & Fraport)
WOASE 2013
(Winter Ops & Airside Safety Europe - Hosted by London Heathrow Airport)
A380 Touchdown
(2009 Hosted by Dubai International Airport)
SAE
(2008/2009 Sustainable Airport Environments - Hosted by London Heathrow Airport
& Frankfurt Airport)
EAD
(2008/2009 European Airport Development - Hosted by Prague International Airport &
Riga International Airport)

On behalf of the AEI team and our industry colleagues, we hope you all enjoy FAHM 2015.

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Speakers
ANDY BAXTER
Managing Director,
Bird strike Management
Andy heads the specialist UK based Birdstrike
Management team working out of the Applied
Innovation Campus near York. Andy and his
team have worked at over a hundred airports
on all seven continents and advised on bird
and wildlife strike habitat management,
active control, wildlife management training
and risk control for airports, airlines, insurers,
government and regulators. Andy has spent
the past twenty years, much of it as the
wildlife management team leader within the
governments former CSL, Fera and AHVLA
research units, developing and leading
the wildlife management and monitoring
programme at airports around the world. Andy
has developed professional ornithological
and birdstrike prevention measures to reduce
key bird strike risks at many of the UKs major
airports, has presented research results to
the wider community at conferences and
seminars around the globe and has provided
birdstrike mitigation programmes for new
runway developments, terminal developments
and off-airfield proposals. Andy is currently
updating risk management protocols for
wildlife hazards, reviewing airport and airline
controls to prevent damaging strike conflicts
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and implementing programmes for reducing
overall strike levels with individual target
species.
BART STRAVER
Manager A/OPS/AO/B, Amsterdam
Schiphol Airport
My Background is in environmental
sciences, Ive been working for Amsterdam
Airport Schiphol for 8 years. Starting as an
environmental advisor and as the Wildlife
hazard manager since 2013. Both as an advisor
and WLH manger Ive involved in ensuring that
the habitat at Amsterdam Schiphol airport
is as unattractive for birds as possible. Since
2013 Ive overseen the digitalization of the
Bird Control department, the introduction
of the avian radar and the adaptation of
entophytic grasses within the airport
environment.
DALE HORNSBY
Flight Lieutenant,Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant Hornsby has been a Royal
Air Force Engineer Officer since 2000. In
a diverse early career up to 2010 he has
undertaken a number of roles including
managing Ground Support Equipment
and airfield Support Vehicle Engineering
sections at a UK base (and again later during
operations in Afghanistan), front-line on-
aircraft engineering, off-aircraft engineering
support and instructing new recruits at RAFC
Cranwell. In 2010 he returned to front-line
aircraft engineering with an assignment to No
II(Army Co-operation) Squadron based at RAF
Marham in Norfolk operating, at that time,
Tornado GR4 aircraft. This assignment saw
him deploy operationally with the Squadron
several times, to Italy and to Afghanistan.
Remaining at RAF Marham in 2013, he changed
position to Officer Commanding Engineering
Operations Flight, supporting the Tornado
Force at home and worldwide. In January 2015
he joined the RAF Safety Centre based at
RAF High Wycombe as part of the Air Safety
Assurance Team which, as a poacher-turned-
gamekeeper, has already seen him conduct
Air Safety Assurance Visits to RAF locations
worldwide including The Falkland Islands,
Ascension Island, Bahrain and Gibraltar. This
position also comes with the honourable title
of RAF FOD Prevention Officer where he is
responsible for writing and sponsoring RAF
FOD prevention policy and guidelines.
ALEXANDER ENGEL
Working group on Automated
FOD Detection,
Eurocontrol, Eurocae
After having worked as military Air Traffic
Controller for the German Air Force at
the Maastricht UAC, Mr. Engel joined
EUROCONTROL in 1997 as Teamleader
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The Team, located at the EUROCONTROL
Maastricht UAC, was responsible for the
User support and software development
of the RMCDE, the network node of the
surveillance data network RADNET. In 2005
Mr. Engel transferred to the Surveillance
Unit at the EUROCONTROL Headquarters
in Brussels where he was responsible for the
RMCDE Product Management. In 2011 Mr.
Engel joined the EUROCONTROL Directorate
Pan-European Single Sky, first as Impact
Assessment Officer in the Single European
Sky Unit, later in the Standardisation
Unit. Mr. Engel is the ASTERIX Manager of
EUROCONTROL. ASTERIX is a low level
format description for the encoding of
surveillance related messages. He is part-
time seconded to the European Organisation
for Civil Aviation Equipment (EUROCAE) as
Technical Programme Manager.
EDWIN E. HERRICKS
Professor Emeritus, Department of
Civil and Environmental Engineering,
University of Illinois
Professor Herricks is Professor Emeritus,
Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana
Champaign. His career at the University of
Illinois has spanned 40 years. His present
research is focused on the selection and use
of advanced sensor technologies in airport
safety management systems. He has been
leading the Airport Safety Management
Program in the University of Illinois Center
of Excellence for Airport Technology since
1999. Herricks brings training in science and
engineering, and a record of achievement
in airport safety recognized by the FAAs
prestigious Excellence Award in 2008.
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Herricks interests include technology
performance assessment, sensor data
management, data analysis, and modeling
with a focus on development of operational
practices for airports. He has been the
performing partner for the FAA in the
characterization of sensor capabilities
in safety systems at airports including
the scientific assessment of avian radars
at airports, the use of FOD detection
technologies on runways and aprons, and
the use of other surveillance systems on GEORGE SPEAKE
aprons and in the terminal areas of airports. VP Ops and Maintenance,
Herricks is the author of multiple reports Orlando Sandford International Airport
and technology notes published by the FAA George Speake began his career in
Technical Center in Atlantic City, NJ along aviation twenty-three years ago as an Air
with over 150 publications in engineering and Transportation Specialist in the United
ecological applications. States Air Force. Following four years of
military service, he moved to Alaska where
he managed 144 employees as the Airport
Manager/Site Manager of Adak Naval Air
Station, transitioning the Navy Base and
Airfield to a City and Commercial Airport.
After leaving Alaska, Mr. Speake pursued a
degree in Aviation Management at Embry-
Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona
Beach, Florida. Following his graduation, Mr.
Speake managed the Dare County Regional
Airport in Manteo, North Carolina, during
which time the Centennial of Flight was held
FERNANDO LOPEZ-CALLEJA
at the Wright Brothers Memorial. Dare County
Head of Aerodrome Licensing
Regional Airport is located six miles from the
and Assurance,
Memorial and was ground zero for all warbirds
Heathrow Airport
participating in the Centennial, resulting in
Fernando Lopez-Calleja, Head of Aerodrome
nearly 10,000 operations in eight days from
Licensing and Assurance, Heathrow airport
a 4,300 foot airstrip. Mr. Speake then moved
Fernando is accountable for the safety
to Garden City, Kansas, where he managed
and compliance of Heathrow Aerodrome
the Garden City Regional Airport. Mr. Speake
and aircraft operations, and provides
currently holds the position of Vice President
assurance on achieving safety and compliance
of Operations and Maintenance and Airport
objectives to the Service Transformation
Security Coordinator at the Orlando Sanford
Team. Beforehand, Fernando has managed
International Airport. Mr. Speake is married
the airside operation at Heathrow, and has
and has a daughter and son.
successfully integrated key infrastructure
and change projects onto the Heathrow
operation, from the opening of Terminal 5 to
42 airline moves across the airport. Fernando
is a trained Aeronautical Engineer and started
his career in the field of aircraft and industrial
aerodynamics.
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JOHN HAMSHARE
Airside Policy and Oversight Manager,
Heathrow Airport
I have worked for Heathrow Airport Limited
for 25 years and have spent the last 14 years
as part of the Airside Operations Policy team.I
have been in my current role for
10 years.My current role involves the
interpretation of regulation and the
development of company policy on subjects
as diverse as runway contamination
assessment, bird hazard management, FOD
radar specification and airfield inspection
requirements. I am a member of the Heathrow
Bird Hazard Management group and I work
closely with the Heathrow
Airside Team on both FOD and Bird Hazard
Management matters.
MIKE WATSON
Commercial UAV Regulation
Mike Watson started his career in the nuclear
industry as a test team leader at Sizewell B
power station. In 1997 he established Pager
Power, his technical consultancy, which has
worked in 37 countries. The company has
been undertaking aeronautical assessments
since 2002 and has worked with most major
UK airports focussing on assessing and
resolving wind turbine radar interference
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issues. More recently Mike has been
researching UK laws and regulations relating
to small commercial UAV operations in
the vicinity of airports. He established the
rapidly growing Drones UAVs and UK Aviation
LinkedIn group in January 2015 and is now
developing an online registration system for
small commercial UAVs.
TAN ENG KIM
Changi Airport
Graduated with Bachelor of Electrical
and Electronic Engineering (2nd Class
Honours) in Communications from Nanyang
Technological University, Eng Kim has more
than 7 years of experience in security and
surveillance systems. Previously working
with the Land Transport Authority of
NEIL PRITCHARD
Singapore, she joined Changi Airport Group
Airside Strategy and Development,
in 2012. She leads a team managing Foreign
Heathrow Airport
Object Debris Detection System, Closed
Neil Pritchard is an Aviation professional with
Circuit Television System and Perimeter
8 years experience at the worlds busiest
Intrusion Detection System in Changi Airport.
International airport Heathrow.
Apart from overseeing the maintenance of
Neil currently leads Strategy and
these systems, her responsibilities include
Development for Airside at Heathrow,
managing the additional and alteration works
driving optimizations in safety, efficiency
to the existing systems.
and punctuality that are required in Airspace,
Surface Movement and Ground Operations
to meet the 25-year Master Plan through
process, infrastructure and technology
projects.
Prior to this role, Neil was Head of Airside
during 2011, the key function of this role was
the accountability for Airside Operations,
including Airside Safety Department, Winter
Operations, Airfield Asset, Maintenance &
Facilities. Neil succeeded in this role from
Operations Manager for Airside. During
this time leading the implementation and
development of the Tarsier Automated FOD
detection system
Neil has also spent 2 years as an Airport
Duty Manager, leading and coordinating the
daily operations at Heathrow - terminals,
security, baggage, airfield, engineering and
landside. During this time, he lead Heathrows
response for many Airport operational
incidents including the BA038 Aircraft
accident.
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 project to benchmark existing management
practices on RAF airfields and identify
improvements that can be made to reduce the
risk of birdstrikes.
With only a few weeks left in the RAF, he has
continued to show his enthusiasm, skills and
determination by starting up a new company:
Aerodrone-AISC Ltd, offering aerial imaging
services and consultancy using a drone.

RICHARD STUTTARD
Principal Consultant,
STRI Ltd
Richard Stuttard is Principal Consultant
with STRI Ltd the worlds largest research
TONY JACKSON
and consultancy organisation specialising
Staff Officer, Headquarters Air Command, VASILEIOS STEFANIOROS
in grassland and habitat management. STRI
Royal Air Force Head of Aerodrome,
has been established for more than 85 years
Squadron Leader Tony Jackson, Staff Officer, EASA
and throughout that time has remained at the
Headquarters Air Command, Royal Air Force. Vasileios (Hellenic national) started his
forefront of the development of grassland
Tony Jackson has served in the RAF aviation career in the Hellenic CAA in 1995
management techniques and technologies.
since 1979, amassing vast experience in Air working at Kos Airport, Airport Division
STRI has a unique skill set all under one roof
Traffic and Aerodrome Management. During and Flight Standards Division. In 1999
including agronomists, ecologists, Chartered
this time he has served throughout the joined Athens Airport as Head Airside
Environmentalists, soil scientists, research
UK and at a variety of overseas locations Operations and later as Head Aviation Safety
staff, plant pathologists, drainage engineers,
including the Falkland Islands, Cyprus, Management System. Since January 2011 he is
CAD technicians and a dedicated soils
Croatia, Kosovo, Oman, the Darfur region employed at EASA as Aerodromes Officer. He
laboratory.
of Sudan, Afghanistan, Qatar and most is mainly dealing with aerodrome operational
Much of STRIs work surrounds sport. STRI
recently Germany.These tours have covered issues such as All-Weather Operations,
is the official consultant to FIFA (working at all
an equally impressive range of subjects: Wildlife Control, Movement Area Inspections,
major football tournaments), the R&A (golfs
including Infrastructure design, build and Rescue and Firefighting, etc. He is also
governing body), and the All England Lawn
delivery oversight, Terminal and Area actively involved in EUROCAE activities on
Tennis Club (Wimbledon). STRI also played a
Radar Control, Baltic Region Training Event A-SMGCS and various ICAO working groups.
major role in the London 2012 Olympic Games.
planning and delivery, Strategic Planning
In addition, STRI works for many other bodies
and unit relocation.More recently he has
such as Crown Estates, The Royal Parks, The
been the Staff Officer who provides subject
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
matter expertise on Aerodrome Statutory
and the MoD providing habitat management
Safeguarding for 60 airfields. He also
consultancy.
provides oversight of the Aerodrome Wildlife
Richard obtained an honours degree in
Control Unit Contracts and works very closely
Applied Ecology in 2003 and since then has
with Birdstrike Management Limited who
worked at STRI serving several years as an
provides the RAF independent consultancy
Ecological Consultant, before progressing to
support for Bird Control Policy.
the role of Principal Consultant, specialising
He recently established a Habitat
in the management of large scale design,
Management Working Group in order to raise
construction and restoration projects
the standards of Aerodrome Habitat and
and coordinating innovative maintenance
reduce the risk of wildlife strike on aircraft.
solutions.
The recent surveys and findings will seek
Richard is STRIs representative in the
to change regulation and delivery, whilst
Habitat Management Working Group
providing the assurances that at present do
established by Sqn Ldr Tony Jackson of the
not exist.
MoD and has, with Tony Jackson, led the

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Programme Day 1
09:30 Welcome and Introductions Session 4
Managing Wildlife, Birds and their habitat
Chairman Welcome
John Hamshare
Bird Hazard Management
Airside Policy and Oversight Manager, Heathrow Airport
Andy Baxter
Former FERA: Food and Environment Research Agency
Session 1
The effect of implementing a successful Bird Hazard
Regulatory and oversight:
Management Plan
Liam Bolger
Managing the Habitat and FOD Control at our Aerodrome
Senior Airside Manager, Luton Airport
Vasileios Stefanioros
Head of Aerodrome EASA
Session 4 Contd:
Developing a Standard for Automated FOD Detection systems
Managing Wildlife, Birds and their habitat:
Alexander Engel
Eurocontrol, Eurocae Working group on Automated
Validation, Uses and deployment of Radar for
FOD Detection
Management of Avian
Professor Ed Herricks
Session 2 University of Illinois / FAA

Regulation and use of UAVs

Head of Habitat management, Schiphol Airport.
Aerodrome Ecology and Habitat Management
Regulation and the planned and controlled use of UAVs
James Webster
Mike Watson
Expert in Commercial UAV Regulation

The use and deployment of UAV at Aerodromes

Aerodrome deployment case study

Session 3
FOD and Aircraft Engines

The effect of FOD on Aircraft engines

Dr Julian Reed
Rolls Royce

12:45-13:30 - LUNCH

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Programme Day 2
09:00 Welcome and Introductions Session 7
Grass and Habitat Management
Chairman Welcome
John Hamshare
Managing Habitat and deployment of tools and technologies
for effective Bird control.
Session 5 Bart Straver
Manager,
Managing FOD
A/OPS/AO/B, Amsterdam Schiphol Airport

Approaches to Managing FOD on the Airfield

Using GIS technology to maintain safety whilst grass cutting
Airport reference case study
in the runway areas
Tiina Maripuu
Impact of FOD to Fast jets and Management in Military &
International Association of Airport Executive (IAAE)
Overseas deployment
Case study
FLt LTN Dale Hornsby
Royal Air Force
Managing the Habitat and standards from a
military perspective
Session 6 Squadron Leader Tony Jackson Royal Air Force and Richard
Stuttard
Automated FOD detection and FOD Management

FAA studies in to Automated FOD detection and its approval Session 8

Professor Ed Herricks
Modern Approaches to managing grass on the airfield
University of Illinois / FAA

Deployment of Grass Alternatives (aviation turf)

George Speake
The deployment & use of Automated detection system with
VP Ops and Maintenance, Orlando Sandford International Airport.
FOD Management programme
Fernando Lopez
The application and benefits of hydro seeding in Aviation
Heathrow Airport
Airport reference Case study

The deployment and use of Automated FOD detection systems

TAN. ENG KIM 16:00-16:30 Chair
Changi Airport

12:30-13:15 LUNCH

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