Asbjoern Madsen

Asbjoern graduation from Stavanger University in 1981 and was engaged by the Flight Inspection Department of Norwegian Civil Aviation Administration (currently Avinor) and given the opportunity to specialize in operation of Flight Inspection Systems, as well as design and development future generation systems.

In 1986 he was head-hunted by Norsk Marconi, a company that was established in 1918 by Guglielmo Marconi himself in cooperation with Norwegian entrepreneurs. The company has experienced several undramatic merging processes and division into smaller units, while the development, production and maintenance of the Flight Inspection Systems have continued without disruption. This is well founded in the final company name Normarc Flight Inspection Systems (NFIS), when becoming part of the Aerodata group in 1999.

Asbjoern has participated in all NFIS projects from the first Flight Inspection System delivery, through the latest System upgrade. And gained solid experience within:

• Requirements and Specifications
• Creating and optimizing Measurement Flight Procedures
• Electronics and Avionics, Incl. Processor architecture, Display systems,
  dedicated Flight Inspection sensors and Electronic Flight Information systems
• Positioning Reference systems including Automatic Positioning Reference systems with Inertial and DGPS-RTK technology
• Aircraft Installations and Certification
• Maintenance, Operator and Pilot Training Courses
• Project, Department and Quality Management
• Production, Testing and Acceptance Programs
  In total Asbjoern has now obtained more than 40 years of experience within the Flight Inspection business but are still eager to offer services and support from his own company.

Further Asbjoern has participated in all International Flight Inspection Symposiums (IFIS) since the 4th IFIS in Rome 1986. He has also participated in Nordic Flight Inspection meetings.

He is a founding member of the International Committee for Airspace Standards and Calibration (ICASC) since the approval of the Charter in Brussels, Belgium, 1995.

Through ICASC Asbjoern also served with the ICAO Navigation Systems Panel to Update Doc 8071 Vol. I and presented the finished update at IFIS2018 in Monterey.