Haydar Yalçin - Türkiye
Biography
Haydar Yalçin has served in various positions throughout his career in the Turkish Directorate General of Civil Aviation, including aviation safety inspector, maintenance and airworthiness inspector, director of Airworthiness and Maintenance Division and head of the Flight Standards Department.
For the past 29 years, he has been involved in various aviation safety initiatives, systems, and programmes worldwide including ICAO Universal Safety Oversight Audit Program (USOAP) with the first two cycles (3 Annexes, and CSA with 8 critical elements), ICAO Assembly Resolutions, European SAFA, JSSI/ESSI, FAA and European CAST, Safety Audits, International Safety Summits, IATA IOSA as well as the aircraft certification and the decisions on transparency, sharing safety data, the Safety and Security Management Systems (SMS) and Just/Safety Culture issues.
He has been re-nominated as the National CMA Coordinator for the new cycle of the USOAP, and Annex 19 requirements, and appointed as the responsible person to coordinate the relevant Turkish authorities to prepare the Turkish State Safety Programme (SSP) and ICVM audits since 2011.
Mr Yalçin is a former president of the EUROCONTROL Provisional Council, acting chairman of the ICAO EUR/NAT (Europe-North Atlantic) Regional AviationSafety Group (RASG) and RASG Coordination Group (RCOG), and a member of the Board of Governors of the Flight Safety Foundation (FSF). Mr Yalçin has a degree in aeronautical engineering and has been working for the Turkish Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) since 1989, and as Deputy Director General since December 2004. He was born in Ankara in 1965.
