Speaker Bio

Pat Nolan

Highlands & Islands Airports Ltd.

ATM Advisor & ATM Lead-Sustainable Aviation Test Environment

Speaker Biography* Pat Nolan has over 30 years’ experience across the military and civil ATM sectors in Ireland and the UK. During this time Pat worked at tactical, operational, and strategic level where he held several senior management positions and was associated with a number of high profile, innovative and transformational ATM projects. Pat’s current focus is on delivering the ATM aspects of the UK Future Flight Challenge (FFC) funded Sustainable Aviation Test Environment (SATE) project which aims to create a sector of trial airspace in the Orkney Islands to facilitate ‘integrated’ BVLOS operations from a commercial airport in unsegregated Class G airspace, thereby enabling the transition of advanced RPAS platforms into commercial use.