James O'Connell is an experienced test pilot with a distinguished career spanning several decades. Currently serving as a test pilot at Aviations Flight Test Services and holding the position of Chief Flight Instructor and test pilot at the Test Flying Academy of South Africa since January 2014, O'Connell's expertise is further reinforced by an extensive tenure with the South African Air Force, where involvement as a test pilot has been ongoing since 1985.
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TFASA
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TFASA was formed in 2003 to meet the highly specialised flight test training needs of domestic and foreign aerospace industries and governments. TFASA provide a spectrum of training courses ranging from the Class 1 graduate course for test pilots and flight test engineers to a wide range of short courses for test pilots, engineers, programme and project managers. Furthermore, the Company also provide very detailed and specific technical courses such as flight test instrumentation design and implementation, flight control systems design and evaluation courses. We are a dynamic company that focuses on innovative and technology driven solutions for our clients. We have a young team of employees driving our company objectives with passion and are encouraged to think out of the box and challenge conventional thinking and ways of doing things. We invest a great deal in our staff, not just from a capacity building and training perspective but also from a character-building perspective.
