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Max Trescott (born September 22, 1956) is an American author, airplane pilot and flight instructor. He is a general aviation advocate, and was the 2008 National Certificated Flight Instructor of the Year. Based in the San Francisco Bay area, he runs Glass Cockpit Publishing, speaks at aviation events, and gives flight instruction in advanced glass cockpit aircraft.
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Background
Trescott started taking flying lessons when he was 15 years old. He graduated from Swarthmore College in 1978 with a B.A. in Psychology and in 1979 with a B.S. in electrical engineering. He holds a MBA with concentrations in management strategy and marketing from the New York University Stern School of Business. He worked part-time as a disk jockey from 1972 through 1979 at several radio stations. and worked as an engineer in 1977 and 1978 for CBS at their owned and operated WCAU-AM and WCAU-FM stations in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
He worked at Hewlett-Packard from September, 1979 in Rockaway, New Jersey. In February, 1988, he took a position at HP’s corporate headquarters in Palo Alto, California, where he worked until he left HP in 2004 to start Glass Cockpit Publishing.
He holds an Airline Transport Pilot certificate and is a FAA Gold Seal CFI, and has been trained at the Cessna, Cirrus Design and Columbia Aircraft factories as a glass cockpit Certificated Flight Instructor.
He's been designated by the National Association of Flight Instructors as both a Master CFI and a Master Ground Instructor. He is a frequent speaker at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh and Sun 'n Fun. He also publishes a free online safety newsletter Pilot Safety News.
Activism
Trescott is an advocate of preserving and growing general aviation in the U.S. In 2007 he called on pilots to act to help save the Reid-Hillview Airport, which was being studied for possible closure by the Santa Clara County, California Board of Supervisors. In 2007 he also called upon the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration to adopt more aggressive safety standards for general aviation. He also urged pilots to submit comments on the FAA's NPRM (Notice of Proposed Rulemaking) to require ADS-B equipment in aircraft by the year 2020. In his comments to the FAA, he said that the current proposal could be improved upon, to deliver benefits at a lower cost.