DORU VARLAN

Istorie personala...

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DORU VARLAN – CURRICULUM VITAE

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Date of birth / Place of birth: 27 of July 1950 / Plescoi, jud.Buzau

Educational background: ‘Aurel Vlaicu’ School of Aviation Officers, 1975

Professional validations: aeronautical/automobile/meteorological engineer

Highest qualification: airline transport pilot licence ATP / 518 / Romanian CAA

Type ratings: Zlin-526F,An-2,IL-14,An-24,Boeing-707,Dash-8

Logged flight hours: about 5,000

Jobs (chronological order):

- worker, Workshop and Transport Base

- pilot (Antonov-2), Crop-spraying Aviation Enterprise

- airline pilot (Antonov-24, B-707), TAROM Romanian Air Transport

- automobile engineer (specific projects implementation)

- engineer, chief to the Repair-work and Industrial Production Unit, OGA (Water Resource Management Office)

Engineer, chief of the Transport Department, IJPPS (the County of Buzau Production and Services Enterprise)(the above-located picture)

- flight dispatcher, TAROM Air Transport

- airline pilot(Antonov-24 captain), TAROM Air Transport

- flight operations director and airline pilot(DASH-8 captain), Dac Air

- flight operations director, Crop-spraying Aviation Enterprise

- Quality Assurance expert – Flight Department, the Romanian Aviation Academy

- Head of Ground Training Department, the Romanian Aviation Academy

Off-duty activities:

- founding member, vice-president , president, Romanian Air Line Pilots’ Association

- IFALPA Director – Romania, IFALPA HUPER (human performance) Committee member; participation in international conferences/aeronautical meetings (implying the pilot profession), held in Brighton, London, Budapest, Amsterdam, Athens, Bali / Indonesia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Bucharest, Johannesburg, San Francisco(NASA Ames Research Base),, with works based on personal interests (e.g. Hurry-up Syndrome)

Hobbies: house interior / exterior design, communication, business administration

Foreign languages:

- English (proficient speaking and reading)

- French (slight speaking and reading)

DORU VARLAN - a self-appreciation of myself

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1. Productive factors

Ø Intelligence

Ø Ideas

Ø Imagination

Ø Industry

Ø Accuracy

Ø Enthusiasm

Ø Speed

2. Personal factors

Ø Honesty

Ø Loyalty

Ø Judgment

Ø Initiative

Ø Alertness

3. Special abilities and interests

Ø To get along with people

Ø To supervise

4. What I know

Ø My trade

Ø Related trades

Ø Business in general

DORU VARLAN - a brief presentation of the man

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This man likes very much to communicate. That is because communication supposedly means to better know and understand each other. Born and raised on a small country farm at about 150-km from Romania’s capital city, Bucharest, his roots lay in rural county. He was attracted by keen sensitivity to nature, down-to-earth practicality combined with fervent idealism and poetry. He always wanted to see what was over the next hill and he also was a voracious reader and thus largely self-educated, gregarious and deeply interested in people. His first beginning to a flying job was some fifty years ago, if one counts from July the 27^th, 1950, the man’s birth date. Before venturing off into the wild blue yonder, and a dream to blossom and become fruitful, apparently it all started at about three years of age, with looking into the sky for any strangers to come down from their flying machines. Graduated some primary school at that farming village and continued it, and added secondary school studies in the nearby town of Buzau, and aviation training for particularly the flying profession followed (that is an other three-year period of time). Pilots like to name the aero-planes they use to fly, in this case the man was to captain in the cockpit of Zlin-526F, An-2, Il-14, An-24, Boeing-707 and Dash-8. Enough to accrue about 5,000 hours of flight time. Crop-spraying flying which was fascinating, like the intercontinental flying thanks to Boeing long-ranger too. For too much love to his flying job (and ‘too much’ correspondence with the western aviation world, that supposedly was seen as one possible ‘intention’ to leave the communist country), the man had to ‘accept’ his licence suspention, and a non-flying job for five professionally difficult years. And yet, 1989 arrived with the good and the bad. Talking about the good, being a working aviator for the furtherance of aviation, the man was among the ones to initiate and manage the Romanian Air Line Pilots’ Association (Ro-ALPA), member of IFALPA. Vice-president, president, secretary, IFALPA Director. He was an active member within the IFALPA HUPER(human performance) and AA(accident analysis) Committees, as well as a steady presence and contributor within other IFALPA workshops, conferences etc. Attended up to twenty- one pilots’ professional gatherings along the years. “Flaps Up” Romanian magazine was put on market at the beginning of 1992, the first aviation publication following the collapse of the totalitarian regime, by this man and one close friend of him; two crazy enthusiasts and an aviation magazine. Within Ro-ALPA two other photocopied publications were prepared and distributed to members. The work with a pilots’ organisation means more or less public relations and media. Possibly that’s why a newly-born Dac Air regional company asked its human-resources department to ask the man’s collaboration as Flight Operations Dept. director. An exciting experience, starting from nothing to grow up to a really professional team (pilots and airhostesses and more) to crew and fly glass-cockpit Dash-8s and CRJs. Really nice saga, but any saga has an end. The owners could not frankly understand that an aviation company is not any company, it is a little bit more. Dac Air went off market, the man regretfully decided to leave the ship before the ship went down. Unable to long live without an aeronautical goal-to-achieve, the man initiated and set up his ‘own’ aviation foundation (the Romanian Aviation Foundation = RAF). In the meantime, the state-owned Romanian Aviation Academy (RAA) was established, to continue the country’s civil aviation training story. The man decided to accept hard work to develop the RAA’s safety & quality assurance department with regards to flight training, to manage the ground training department and the pilot ab-initio flight training Academy’s campus. Married to Manuela, he has four grown up daughters. Lives in Bucharest (the most part of the week) and at Berca (a small rural town). He has many friends around him and all over the world. Perhaps he has a few foes too. Yet looking for more Friends, he never stopped believing.

Doru Varlan ... in a few words

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My outgoing nature

And confident way

Make me cheerful and witty

In all I do and say.

With humor and warmth

I take things in my stride

And face every trial

With radiant pride.

The great creativity

That I express

Will bring me good fortune

And great happiness