​David St. George is an FAA DPE (Sport to Multi ATP) and a Part 135 charter pilot flying the Pilatus PC-12 in the NYC area. He recently renewed his Master Instructor for the tenth time and is a Charter member of SAFE.

Formerly a 141 Chief Instructor for over 25 years, with a Gold Seal CFI. David started flying at 16 and has logged over 15,000 hours. He owns a 1946 7AC Aeronca Champ and wrote the SAFE Toolkit app.

Eric Hake is a CFI, CFII, CSIP and actively involved in aviation education on a daily basis as a trainer for The Modern Pilot LLC, a Houston, Texas based business he founded in 2015.  

From 2009 to 2015, Hake worked for ForeFlight, where he personally answered more than 50,000 support email messages and built the initial Pilot Support Team.  Hake is also a Redbird Certificated Flight Instructor, a mission-qualified pilot in Civil Air Patrol, and a sought after public speaker.

Hobart Caleb "Hobie" Tomlinson, DPE, FAAST Rep, EAA Flt Adv., FAA Master Pilot, 7th MCFI, CSIP, BPPP and 2012 National "Flight Instructor of the Year" with 39,000+ flight hours and 14,000+ hours of instruction given.

Hobie is an experienced business operations and logistics manager within national and international aviation industry. His areas of expertise include: managing fleets of aircraft, pilots, safety programs, and training staff.

As a highly respected professional in Aviation Safety, Tomlinson has developed and managed comprehensive safety programs for permanent fleets at FBO sites and for private aircraft owners and their crews. In addition, Tomlinson has provided flight instruction and acted as an FAA examiner for wide variety of small to large aircraft for 35+ years. Having operated an independent flight instruction service, consulted with flight schools, and provided instruction to private individuals, he brings a breadth and depth of knowledge and experience.

Veronica has been a pilot since 1983 and a CFII since 1985. She has over 1000 hours of flight instruction given. She flew as a corporate pilot and later for two commuter airlines first in 1987 and then from 1988-1991 and holds an ATP and a Saab-340 type rating. Receiving a full scholarship to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University she earned her Master of Aeronautical Science degree in 1995.

Veronica began teaching at Bridgewater State University (then College) in August of 1995 and became the founding Chairperson of the Aviation Science Department when it split from the Management Science Department in 1997. She has been at BSU ever since and played a major role in developing and implementing new courses required for Aviation Accreditation Board International certification. She is a tenured faculty member who has served on many committees at the University over the past two decades. Still active as a FAAST team representative she has conducted seminars locally in the Boston FSDO area, at Sun’n Fun and AirVenture, and at Women in Aviation national conventions.

Joshua Hart is a transitioning US Army Military Fixed-Wing Pilot with over 3,000 hours of flight time in a wide variety of rotary and fixed-wing aircraft, including piston, turboprop and turbojet aircraft.  

His aviation career has taken him to nearly every continent in the world, except Antartica, which he is determined to check off his flying bucket list!  He has trained, mentored and directed over 500 pilots, both new and experienced, throughout his career in global aviation operations.

Joshua is known for seeing the big picture and bringing fresh thinking to the ways we educate our community.  His passion for identifying, setting and executing strategic goals that help fulfill our mission statement will be an asset in determining the direction we take our association in the future.  

Wayman Alfredo Luy, ATP, CFI/CFII/MEI, Gold Seal, 11,000 hrs with 8,000 hrs Flight instruction given. CE-500/CE-510 type rating and Flight-Engineer Turbo Jet. Charter member of the SAFE organization.

Wayman has been an active flight instructor for over 20 years. He is Vice President of Wayman Aviation Academy in South Florida. It is an FAA Part 141 certified academy with 38 aircraft and over 30 instructors. Wayman started his flying career as a Flight Engineer in the DC-8, then flying Citation and Socata TBM 700/850/900s for the factory and as mentor pilot for new owner operators.

Wayman has been mentor, guiding new CFIs as they make their way to their dream jobs instilling safety and best practices to these young aviators.