Welcome to Frost Air Aviation

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 A key factor to understanding complex case scenarios is experience and insight into the aerospace industry. Without the breadth of experience in the areas to be analyzed, intuitive recognition of factors that could affect the outcome of a case is difficult and elusive. Frost Air Aviation LLC possesses the experience necessary to provide this insight into complex cases where customary aviation experience may fail. With integration of practical experience to enhance aviation acumen, FAA brings the following to the table:  

• Aviation Expert Witness Investigated Alleged Jet Blast Incident at LAX 
• General Aviation Operations 
• Flight Instructor and President of 3 Military Flying Clubs 
• Managed Military Flight Operations in Domestic and OUTUS (Outside US)  airspace
• Airspace Manager ARTCC Bermuda Integrated Domestic and Foreign Air Carrier Traffic with Military Operations 
• Special Use Airspace Coordinator 
• Scheduling Authority for Off Shore Warning areas in support of Major Maritime Combat Exercises 
• Conducted Operational Mishap Investigations
•  Aviation Lawyers, Insurance Companies, and other Aeronautical Institutions may contact Frost Air Aviation LLC for a case evaluation. 
• Student pilots may contact Frost Air Aviation LLC for mentoring, it would be a pleasure to help you with your aviation program. 

Jonathan "Jack" Frost enlisted in the Navy in 1970.

(Service History)

 He became an Aviation Structural Mechanic specializing in airframes, hydraulics, flight controls, and environmental systems. During his early Navy years, he earned a single-engine-land private pilot rating and qualified as a Load Master and Flight Attendant on C118B (DC6) aircraft. With tenure of 10 years in aviation maintenance he also garnered experience as an Aircraft Quality-Assurance Inspector on aircraft such as the DC6 Lift Master, Super DC3, A4 Sky Hawk, T39 Sabreliner, and other aircraft. His Naval Aircrew duties brought more than 2000 flight hours of flight time as a Loadmaster and Flight Attendant on the Douglas DC6.

During 1980, Jonathan continued his aviation career over the next 14 years completing formal flight training at a Federal Aviation Administration Part 141 Flight School. There, he earned multi-engine, instrument, and commercial pilot ratings, including qualification as a Certificated Flight Instructor (CFI).

Adding to his portfolio of aviation experience, he completed formal Air Traffic Control (ATC) Specialist training and held positions as a Terminal Radar Approach Controller (TRACON), Control Tower Supervisor, ATC Facility Watch Supervisor, and Control Tower Branch Manager. During this time he also graduated from the Navy’s Facility Management and Terminal Instrument Approach Procedures Development Course. Subsequent duties included Managing the Air Route Traffic Control Center (ARTCC) and Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON) facilities in Bermuda where both RADAR and non-RADAR oceanic control procedures were implemented. 

The Bermuda facility brought unique opportunities where Jonathan was the single point of contact for managing vast amounts of airspace and oceanic operation areas where he spent three years as the single person responsible for coordinating and scheduling the Operational Warning Areas surrounding Bermuda. 

Working with government agencies of the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States, he played a key role in assuring safe aviation operations. Those duties included negotiating formal Letters of Agreement, improving operational procedures, and maintaining oversight for major airfield and Navigation Aid (NAVAID) construction projects. As an advocate for the flying public, he worked with major air-carrier chief pilots of companies such as American Airlines, Pan American, and US Airways while chairing Air Traffic User's conferences to improve aviation services within the Bermuda FIR (Flight Information Region). As a member of two military command aviation safety councils, he played a major role providing aviation related safety recommendations to executive management.

During his 24 year Navy career, Jonathan completed college courses in aeronautics and general education, and ultimately graduated with honors from the Navy’s coveted Senior Enlisted Academy located at the Navy War College in Newport, RI.

With a passion for aviation throughout his Navy career, he kept his qualifications current teaching flying as a flight instructor and serving as president of three flying clubs. While completing his final tour of duty at Naval Air Station Brunswick, ME, he was the command's primary instructor providing airspace training to Naval Aviators during the Federal Aviation Administration's reclassification of airspace. After retiring from the U.S. Navy in 1994, he was accepted into University of Rhode Island’s College of Engineering and graduated in 1999 with a Baccalaureate Degree in Mechanical Engineering. Upon graduation he worked as a repair development engineer for Pratt and Whitney’s (PW) F100 jet-fighter (F16 and F15) engine repair program and was PW’s key logistics liaison to the U.S. Air Force. While at PW, Jonathan continued his aviation education and graduated from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University with a Baccalaureate Degree in Professional Aeronautics.

Jonathan completed a mechanical engineering career as a Subject Matter Expert for troubleshooting gas-turbine combustion systems, and conducting Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) for off-specification turbine operating conditions. These tasks include engine failure forensic investigations and developing risk mitigation and countermeasures to prevent future failures while considering factors such as safety, environmental, and cost. He has also completed training and is competent using statistical methods for analyzing and solving issues related to complex processes such as those used in the operation of aircraft.

Jonathan has passion for  the aviation industry as an Aviation Consultant, commercial pilot and flight instructor. He is a member of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, and is a Federal Aviation Administration’s Safety Team (FAAST) volunteer.

I have completed more than 35 years of aerospace experience. This aerospace experience includes air traffic control facility management, and conducting aircraft mishap investigations to improve aviation safety.  Completed 18 years of experience in gas turbine operations, manufacturing, component design validation, and quality improvement. I am proficient in conducting component failure root cause analysis using statistical methods and Finite Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA).

Highlights - Skills and Competencies

• Partnered  and advised senior military officers and corporate; Graduate with Honors, Senior Enlisted Academy, Naval Education and Training Center, Newport, Rhode Island; management, communication skills, and national security affairs, 1991
• Highly competent and capable communicator, public speaker, and experienced in giving presentations using the Microsoft Office Suite
• Air Traffic Control Facilility Management
• Experienced in International relations; Organized International Air Traffic Users Conferences; developed agendas, chaired meetings, and mediated between chief pilots of major air carriers, domestic and foreign government agencies, and members of airport management.

Education

• Graduate, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island. Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering
• Graduate, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, Florida. Bachelor of Science in Professional Aeronautics
• Graduate with Honors, Senior Enlisted Academy, Naval Education and Training Center, Newport, Rhode Island; management, communication skills, and national security affairs, 1991
• Graduate, Naval Air Technical Training Center, Millington, Tennessee. Mechanic Fundamentals, Aircraft Familiarization, and Aviation Structural Mechanic courses, 1971; Control Tower Operator course, 1981; Radar Approach Control Operator course, 1982; Air Traffic Control Facility Management and Terminal Approach Procedures course, 1988
• Graduate, Burnside-Ott Aviation Training Center, Miami, Florida. Pilot training: commercial, instru­ment, multi-engine land, and flight instructor, 1980

Lockheed Martin, Sikorski Helicopter, Naval Air Station Patuxent River, MD October 2018 – October 2019

Aircraft Test Director Experience

• Aircraft Test Director for the US Marine Corps H-53K King Stallion Helicopter Development Program
• Pre-flight Safety Briefings
• Telemetry room management
• Test procedures per individual disciplines such as propulsion, flight controls, flight quality, etc..

Florida Power & Light Company, Juno Beach, FL, October 2000 to October 2018

Combustion Turbine Mechanical Engineer

• Graduate, Florida Power & Light Group University School of Quality (provided by Breakthrough Management Group International), Green Belt Certified, Six Sigma DMAIC methodology for technical process improvement, 2009
• Subject Matter Expert in combustion troubleshooting and tuning Dry Low NOx (DLN) Combustors on GE 7241FA, and Mitsubishi Hitachi 501G gas turbines
• Conducted Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) for off specification gas turbine operating conditions, for non-conforming components, and for component upgrades, which included risk evaluation for execution of countermeasures to failures while considering safety and environmental factors
• Developed processes and statistical analysis tools for building advanced software for predicting combustion component failures  
• Wrote numerous “Letter of Instruction” for a fleet of over 50 heavy duty gas turbines to improve quality, reliability, and safety of operations
• Conducted root cause analysis of mechanical failures on heavy duty gas turbines using telemetry data for discovering off-specification data and evaluating correlations of multi-variable factors

Teledyne Continental Motors, Mobile, Alabama, March 2000 to April 2000

Production Test Manager

• Production Test Business Unit Leader responsible to the vice president of manufacturing for all aspects of aircraft engine test and production output
• Managed 29 employees including engine test technicians and mechanics

Pratt & Whitney, Large Military Engines, West Palm Beach, Florida, January 1999 – March 2000

Senior Mechanical Repair Engineer

• Military Repair Group Liaison for the OEM to U.S. and International Air Force customers to define and prioritize repair tasks requiring development
• Interfaced with gas-turbine component-repair vendors to obtain source qualification and licensing agreements including process reviews and quality audits; Familiar with ISO 9000 certification standard

Pratt & Whitney, Assembly and Test, Middletown, Connecticut, 1996 – 1999 

Mechanical Engineer

• Wrote design engineering changes for commercial aircraft engine components which included revising engineering drawings and providing design substantiation to meet FAA certification requirements under appropriate Federal Air Regulations
• Performed root cause investigations on gas turbine-engines to improve engine efficiency, to provide corrective action for assembly process improvement, and to provide cost reduction through engineering-design change initiation and validation.
• Provided engineering support to engine manufacturing, assembly, and test operations

United States Navy, December 1970 – September 1994

Aircraft Mechanic, 10 Years

• Experienced aircraft mechanic and quality assurance inspector on transport and tactical jet aircraft.
• Serviced, disassembled, inspected and repaired airframe and engine components at organizational and intermediate levels of maintenance

Airport and Air Traffic Control Facility Management, 8 Years

• Senior Leading Chief-in-Charge of Bermuda, UK Air Route Traffic Control Center managing over fifty controllers. 
• Negotiated many operational letters of agreement between Federal Aviation Administration and government agencies of Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States
• Organized International Air Traffic Users Conferences; developed agendas, chaired meetings, and mediated between chief pilots of major air carriers, domestic and foreign government agencies, and members of airport management
• Collected and analyzed data for investigating aviation operational mishaps to improve air-traffic safety; such tasks included researching FAA regulations, writing technical reports, transcribing voice recordings, and charting radar plots.
• Member of two aviation safety-councils; recommended policy and procedural improvements of aviation operations to top executives to improve flight safety

Air Traffic Controller, 6 years

• Supervised twenty-eight controllers aboard the USS Coral Sea; Carrier Air Traffic Control Center (CATTC) Supervisor
• Worked high tempo aircraft carrier air traffic operations.
• Managed fifteen controllers as a facility watch-supervisor and control tower chief.
• Operated the control tower and radar-approach-control facilities for military-air stations.

Special Accomplishments

• Awarded Patent #US 9,423,317 for inventing a Gas Turbine Combustion Chamber Measurement System
• Awarded Navy Commendation Medal for superior leadership
• Awarded three Navy Achievement Medals for outstanding job performance
• Selected Sailor of the Year in 1986, ranked number one of over 3,500 aboard the USS Coral Sea
• Commercial Pilot and Flight Instructor; completed over 1,200 flight hours of flight-time as a pilot in command. Instrument-rated in single- and multi-engine airplanes
• President, board of directors for Navy Flying Clubs in Brunswick, Maine; Key West, Florida; and Keflavik, Iceland