Martin Gerber Email & Phone Number

Zurich, Switzerland

Dübendorf, Zürich, Schweiz

• 2024 – today: SESAR project STEPLESS. Concept development for stepless aircraft configurations to fly variable angles of glidepath. Role: Task leader. EU Horizon 2020 grant agreement No. 101166837.
• 2023 – today: SESAR project DYN-MARS – ‘Dynamic Management of Aircraft Configuration and Route Structures’. Further development of aircraft energy management functions and connection to ATM environment. EU Horizon 2020.
• 2023 – today: Consultant for the Canton of Zurich (Office for Mobility) and project management for the preliminary study on the development of the Dübendorf airfield (LSMD) into a future test, research and industrial.
• 2020 – 2022: SESAR project DYNCAT – ‘Dynamic Configuration Adjustment in the TMA’. Development of an FMS prototype function. Role: work package manager. EU Horizon 2020 grant agreement No. 893568.
• 2018 – 2020: Further development of pilot assistance system LNAS and flight test campaign in Zurich with DLR's Airbus A320 ATRA. Role: project initiator and leader. Grant agreement BV-87 2017-040.
• 2018 – 2020: Europe's first real-time in-situ turbulence recording with IATA data sharing on Swiss Airline’s Boeing 777. Role: project initiator and leader. Grant agreement BV-87 2017-039.

Winterthur, Zürich, Schweiz

Lectures for 'Aircraft Systems - Propulsion and Performance' and 'Flight Test Lab' courses at the Centre for Aviation.

• Leader of maintenance check flight (MCF) pilot team. Organization and execution of ground and flight checks after heavy maintenance visits (HMV). Training of new MCF pilots.
• Project pilot for the A320neo entry-into-service: management avionics specifications and fleet harmonization, customer acceptance flights in TLS and XFW, preparation of flight crew training material.
• Responsible for the content and regular updates of the A320 OM B (FCOM/FCTM/QRH).
• Member of the IATA Turbulence Advisory Group and SME at Lufthansa Group for aviation weather. Initiator and project manager for evaluation, procurement and implementation of the aviation weather application eWAS at.
• Exercise leader in SESAR VLD 2 ALBATROSS. Demonstration of energy-optimized CDA along PBN-to-ILS procedures on Airbus A320neo using LNAS. EU Horizon 2020 grant agreement No. 101017678.

Zurich, Switzerland

• Since 2015: MCF pilot for the SWISS Airbus A320 family.
• Simulator acceptance pilot on the A320 and A321 simulators of the Lufthansa Aviation Training facility (Zurich). On-site acceptance of a new A320 Level D full flight simulator in September 2014.
• Type rating flight instructor (TRIr, SFI), member of the Simulator Exercise Design Group.

Dubendorf

• Wide-ranging operational experience in helicopter missions: troop transport, external cargo operations, search and rescue (SAR) flights day and night, mountain flying, fire fighting missions, winch operations, subsidiary.
• Mai 2001 – March 2005 / February 2013 – Current: Reservist pilot (German: Milizpilot), 33 service days/year.
• October 2007 – January 2013: Part-time professional military pilot. Additional type-rating for EC-635.
• November 2008: Upgrade to Captain on AS532 Super Puma.
• 2006 – 2013: Multiple one-month peacekeeping missions in Bosnia for EUFOR and in Kosovo for KFOR, including assignments as chief of the local air transport mission detachment (pilots and aircraft engineers).
• April 2006 – September 2007: Full-time professional pilot.

Braunschweig Und Umgebung, Deutschland

• Testing of new pilot assistance systems (envelope protections with active sidesticks: torque and vortex ring state protection), display and sensor systems (dynamically generated approach trajectories, obstacle.
• Forward-looking infrared (FLIR) measurement campaigns on Bo-105 day and night (Kiel, North Sea).
• Consultation on the development of novel concepts and preliminary testing on research simulator.
• Project participation: HALAS, ALLFlight, myCopter.

Zurich, Switzerland And Paris, France

• Overall project management of a 58 million CHF project for the development, integration, testing and delivery of two full-flight Level D helicopter simulators (EC-635 and AS532 Super Puma).
• Subcontract management with different suppliers (Airbus Helicopter, RUAG, others).
• Requirements management between developers and contractual partner Armasuisse.
• Definition of operational test manuals and implementation of internal acceptance tests.

Master Of Science (Msc), Mechanical Engineering

• September 2005 - March 2006: Master's Thesis (German: Diplomarbeit) as exchange student at Imperial College, University of London, UK.

Military Pilot License, Helicopters

Training and graduation as military helicopter pilot and officer of the Swiss Air Force.