Hilary Smith is a helicopter pilot, instructor pilot, and flight examiner with more than 20 years of operational and combat experience in the United States Coast Guard and Marine Corps. She is highly skilled in aviation management, crew resource management, aviation safety, risk management, standardization, and training. She has a bachelor’s degree in Ocean Engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy and a Master's degree in Organizational Leadership from Florida Institute of Technology. She holds an FAA Airline Transport Pilot (ATP) certificate with a Rotorcraft - Helicopter rating, a Commercial Airplane Single Engine Land certificate with an Instrument rating, FAA Remote Pilot certificate with a Small UAS rating, and is an FAA Certified Flight Instructor (CFI) for Rotorcraft-Helicopter and Instrument Helicopters. Her research interests include aviation safety, pilot training, human factors, Advanced Air Mobility, and unmanned aerial systems (UAS).
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