ASAS Director and CEO
Capt. Dan Gellert
Capt. Dan Gellert during his career as airline pilot accumulated FAA captain type ratings on:
B-747, L-1011, A-300 B-767, B-757, B-727, DC-9/MD80, L-188 Electra, [P-3] EMB-145
As an Alaskan Bush Pilot Dan held:
- ATP multi-engine land, commercial single engine land and sea, multi-engine sea, and glider
Dan also worked as:
- FAA and airline flight and simulator Instructor
- USAF MAC flight crew during the Vietnam War
- Acceptance-production test pilot at Boeing and Douglas Aircraft
- Has accumulated over 30,000 flight hours
Beyond flying Dan was:
- University Adjucnt Professor - Instructor
- Certified FAA Air Traffic Controller, Center, Oceanic, Station
- Experience in Approach Control, FIR, AMIS, GCA/PAR
- Certified Weather Bureau Observer,
- FAA Flight Instructor Aircraft, Single and Multi-Engine Instrument
- FAA Ground Instructor Advanced, Instrument
- FAA Mechanic Airframe & Powerplant/Engines
- FCC General Radio Certificate with Radar Endorsement
- FAA Parachute Rigger, Back-Chest-Seat
- FAA Aircraft Dispatcher
- FAA Flight Engineer Reciprocator, Turbojet ,Turbo-propeller ratings
- Navigational experience with INS, IRS, Omega, Loran, Celestial, GPS, Doppler
- Flew airliners with all three large engines manufactured by: RR, GE, PW
Dan's education and training:
- Aeronautics at University of Denver
- Criminal Investigator training with Denver PD Staff
- University of Miami BBA in Aerospace Management
- University of Miami Freight Forwarding program
- Stanford University Graduate School of Business in Transportation Management
- Harvard University Graduate School of Business in Labor & Management
- News Reporting UCLA/UCDC 2006
- U.S. Air Force Flying Safety Officer Course
- U. S. Army Crash Survival Investigator Course
- USC Aerospace System Safety Engineering
Airport Rescue Fire Fighter [ARFF] - NTSB Crash and Crime Scene Photographer - 2006
- NTSB Aircraft Accident Investigator Course- 2008
- National Test Pilot School - Technical Pilot Course - 2008
- AAAE Airport Wildlife Management Techniques Course 2009
- ACI Aircraft Deicing Conference 2009
Besides aerospace safety Dan worked as a senior chemical operator at the U. S. Army Rocky Mountain Arsenal home of nerve gas, ammunition and worked in the production of unstable, gaseous and explosive materials. Dan was an academic adjunct professor/instructor at Florida Institute of Technology in meteorology, air carrier operations management, engines and systems and other aviation and management related courses; has testified before Congress, NTSB. Grand and trial Juries, featured on national television such as the Today Show, and other local news programs and newspapers on aviation safety, crash and criminal investigations.