There’s only one thing more difficult for a pilot to deal with than being part of a small flight department and that is being a one-person show that often transforms that single employee into the chief pilot, maintenance director, scheduler, fueler and catering director, not to mention administrative assistant.
Many operational errors occur when one person wears too many hats and especially when one of those people happens to be flying single-pilot high-performance aircraft such as the new light jets. That problem–keeping things in order for flight departments, especially small ones–so intrigued Don Baldwin, a retired Coca-Cola pilot and former NBAA board member, that he formed Baldwin Aviation Safety & Compliance in 2005. The company focuses on what some still believe to be mundane business aviation topics, like safety compliance. “We’re a resource for small flight departments,” Baldwin said. “We help them develop their operations manuals and emergency response systems,” as well as complete safety management systems (SMS) that offer small flight departments a glimpse inside the operations of similar companies for safety best practices.
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