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Dale Wilson, M.S., is Emeritus Professor of Aviation at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington, where he has taught courses in aviation weather, aerospace physiology and psychology, and threat and error management since 1996. He holds a master’s degree in aviation safety from the University of Central Missouri and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Trinity Western University in British Columbia, Canada. Professor Wilson has been a pilot for 40 years, logging several thousand hours in single- and multi-engine airplanes in the United States and Canada. He holds several professional FAA pilot certifications, including Airline Transport Pilot, Certified Flight Instructor, Advanced Ground Instructor, and Instrument Ground Instructor. While in Canada, he held the Airline Transport Pilot License and Class 1 Flight Instructor Rating—the highest of four levels of flight instructor certification.
At Central Washington University, he received several awards for outstanding teaching and scholarship in the Department of Aviation, including the Excellence in Teaching award from the College of Education and Professional Studies. He was also nominated for the Central Washington University Faculty Senate Distinguished Professor of Teaching award. He earned the biennial Master Flight Instructor designation seven times (1999 through 2013), and the Master Ground Instructor from 2013 through 2017, from the National Association of Flight Instructors. He also served as an Aviation Safety Counselor and later as an FAA Safety Team Representative for the FAA’s Spokane Flight Standards District Office.
His primary research interests include visual limitations of flight, pilot decision making, and VFR flight into instrument meteorological conditions. He has authored (or co-authored) more than 20 articles related to flight crew human factors in scholarly journals and professional aviation magazines, and has given numerous safety-related presentations at conferences and seminars in the U.S. and Canada.