Pete Norford
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Biography

Pete Norford
Timed Summary
0:00:00 - Introduction
0:00:50 - Early career after joining the RAAF in 1975
keywords: Defence Helicopters Army Search and Rescue Royal Flying Doctor Service Airservices Air Traffic Control
0:04:05 - Variety and difficult landing experiences whilst performing rescue services in remote and rural flood affected areas
keywords: Floods Gulf of Carpentaria Road signs Royal Flying Doctor Service
0:07:13 - Accident and investigation experience
keywords: Accident investigation Aviation safety Airservices Radio Radar Crashes Innovation Mode Charlie read-outs Altitude read-out Airforce Families Community Closure Air Traffic Control BASI Bureau of Air Safety Investigation ATSB
0:09:48 - Experience linked to Community outside Defence and Airforce Air Traffic Control agencies
keywords: Community Accidents Radar Airservices New England Tenterfield Guyra Rockhampton Townsville Palm Island F18 F11 Defence
0:10:27 - How changes in technology have improved the way that vital information is transmitted to Air Traffic Control and Defence radar with Air Traffic Control services, in relation to accident investigation
keywords: Technology Accident investigation Mode Charlie Altitude read-out Air Traffic Control Defence Radio Radar
0:11:44 - Tells stories about working to the rules and some innovative solutions to problems as an investigator and as a pilot
keywords: Rules Search and rescue Cooktown Floods Innovation Evacuations Laura Royal Flying Doctor Service Airservices Defence Caribou Air Traffic Control
0:18:10 - How can younger, less-experienced pilots today draw on same kind of strength, experience and knowledge that his more senior Defence peers currently enjoy
keywords: Experience Pilots Queensland Helicopter Rescue Service Cairns Defence Vietnam Senior pilots Bob Ryder Spyder Technology
0:20:57 - How generational and technological changes affected a shift in employee attitudes
keywords: Technology Changes Attitudes Innovation Communication Media Flood relief Mossman Community
0:24:21 - Impact of stress during course of his job
keywords: Stress Community Search and rescue New Guinea Operation Drake Solomon Islands Fiji
0:26:47 - Stories about search and rescue in Cyclone Tracy
keywords: Cyclone Tracy Stories
0:28:42 - Post 9/11 impact on operations
keywords: 9/11 Aviation security Defence security
0:35:04 - Stories about some unusual aspects of his work
keywords: Celebrities Stories
0:37:07 - People who mentored him during his career
keywords: Responsibility Personalities BASI Bureau of Air Safety and Investigation
0:38:57 - His management style and stories about most enjoyable and memorable aspects of his career
keywords: Trust Risks Independence Human involvement Stories Search and Rescue Accident investigation Counselling PTSD Humour BASI
0:43:48 - Recounts his personal connection to some fatal accidents, and the way they were managed, which influenced him to push for change in training methods
keywords: Fatal accidents Inexperience Training Change Pilots course Defence Force Academy Army aviation Culture
0:49:08 - Most enjoyable aspects of his career and significant incidents in Search and Rescue
keywords: Incidents Teaching Search and Rescue Flood relief
0:49:46 - Advice to people entering a career in the commercial or Defence aviation industry and his long career in Defence
keywords: Aviation career Diversity Commercial pilots Defence pilots Stories Technology Change Airservices Air Traffic Control Radar Navigation
0:56:19 - General comments
keywords: General comments War veterans
0:57:57 - Interview concludes