Personal information

First name/Surname DORU VÂRLAN

Str. 1 decembrie No.260A
Localitatea PLEȘEȘTI
Address Comuna BERCA
Județul BUZĂU
ROMÂNIA
Cod poștal: 127043
Personal web-site www.dvarlan.blogspot.com
Telephone +40 744 542944
E-mail varlan.doru@yahoo.com, varlandoru@gmail.com
Nationality Romanian
Date of birth July 27, 1950
Gender Male
Desired employment / According to documented experience
Occupational field
Work experience
Dates August 1st,2003 - to present time
Occupation or position  Initiator & President
held
 Research, analysis and training specific to a not-for-profit-
organisation
Main activities and  Personal research on new – UAV / UAS technology
responsibilities  Human factor in the flying and aviation maintenance profession
etc.
Name and address of ROMANIAN AEROSPACE ASSOCIATION
employer Buzau, Romania (www.romaerospace.blogspot.com)
Type of business or sector Aerospace training / education
Dates March 1st,2000 - August 1st,2003
Occupation or position  Quality Assurance Expert
held  Head of Flight Training Campus
 Head of Ground Training Department
 Quality Assurance Manual (QAM) - design and development of
QAM, policy maker task force, procedures design and
implementation
Main activities and  Organisation and administration of flight training programme, to
responsibilities cover everything on the path from dual to solo student in-
flight instruction
 Design and implementation of ground teaching rules and
procedures.
Name and address of ROMANIAN AVIATION ACADEMY
employer Bucharest, Romania (www.aviationacademy.ro)
Type of business or sector Aerospace training / education (Romanian CAA / EASA Approved Flight
Training Organisation)
Dates April 1st,1997 – January 1st,2000
Occupation or position  Owner & Managing Director
held
Main activities and Industrial production and trading of professional tools (Bosch, Makita
responsibilities trademarks)
Name and address of SUPERB Impex S.R.L.
employer Plescoi /Com. Berca, Romania (www.superb.rdslink.ro)
Type of business or sector Construction building materials and industrial tools

Dates April 1st,1996 - May 26th,1997

Occupation or position  Airline pilot
held  Director Flight Operations

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Full design and implementation of a flight operations ( &
dispatch) department, to fly Bombardier Dash – 8 and CRJ
Main activities and regional aircraft
responsibilities  Pilot and flight attendant selection, their ground & in - flight
training, flight operation managing so as to safely perform
domestic and international flights.
Name and address of DAC Air
employer Bucharest, Romania (www.dntcj.ro/dacair)
Type of business or sector Aerial passenger transport

Dates June 1st,1986 – April 1st,1996

Occupation or position  Flight dispatcher
held  Co – Pilot
 Pilot – in – command
Main activities and  Domestic and international flights, in the right and left of AN-24
responsibilities aircraft
 Flight safety tasks
Name and address of TAROM (Romanian Air Transport)
employer Bucharest, Romania (www.tarom.ro)
Type of business or sector Domestic and international aerial passenger transport

Dates October 1st,1984 – April 1st,1986

Occupation or position  Engineer
held  Transport operations manager
Main activities and Domestic and international road & rail transport operations to assist the
responsibilities company‟s industrial production export tasks
Name and address of IJPPS
employer Buzau, Romania
Type of business or sector Industrial goods production

Dates October 25th,1982 – October 1st, 1984

Occupation or position  Engineer
held
Main activities and  Industrial production and repair – shop management
responsibilities
Name and address of OGA, Buzau, Romania
employer
Type of business or sector Water management

Dates September 22nd,1981 – October 25th,1982

Occupation or position  Engineer
held
Main activities and  Monitoring and implementation tasks with regards to company‟s
responsibilities engineering projects
Name and address of MICM – CIUTMR – ITA, Bucharest, Romania
employer
Type of business or sector Engineering

Dates January 3rd,1977 – September 22nd,1981

Occupation or position  Navigator
held  Airline pilot
Main activities and Navigator Airline pilot flight duties aboard IL – 14, AN - 24 and BOEING
responsibilities – 707 aircraft
Name and address of TAROM (Romanian Air Transport)
employer Bucharest, Romania (www.tarom.ro)
Type of business or sector Domestic and international aerial passenger transport

Dates September 10th,1975 – January 3rd,1977

Occupation or position  Pilot
held
Main activities and  Crop – spraying and transport (cargo) AN – 2 aircraft flights
responsibilities
Name and address of IAvU (Intreprinderea de Aviatie Utilitara)
employer Galati, Romania
Type of business or sector General aviation services
Education and training
Dates 1965 - 1969

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Title of qualification Secondary school graduate with baccalaureate diploma
awarded
Name and type of Colegiul National “B.P.Hasdeu” Buzau, Romania
organisation National College
providing education
and training
Dates 1972 - 1975
Title of qualification  Professional Pilot Diploma (No.39 / August 20th, 1975)
awarded
Name and type of Școala de ofițeri de aviație “Aurel Vlaicu”, Boboc, Romania
organisation Aviation Academy
providing education (www.afahc.ro)
and training
Types of aircraft  ZLIN – 526F
 AN -24
Dates 1977
Title of qualification  IL – 14 aircraft pilot type rating
awarded
Name and type of CIPA (Centrul de instruire a personalului aeronautic), Bucharest, Romania
organisation Flight Training Organisation
providing education
and training
Dates 1977
Title of qualification  AN – 24 aircraft pilot type rating
awarded
Name and type of CIPA (Centrul de instruire a personalului aeronautic), Bucharest, Romania
organisation Flight Training Organisation
providing education
and training
Dates 1979
Title of qualification BOEING - 707 aircraft pilot type rating
awarded
Name and type of CIPA (Centrul de instruire a personalului aeronautic), Bucharest, Romania
organisation Flight Training Organisation
providing education
and training
Dates 1981
Title of qualification  Engineer (degree of equivalence studies No.223768 / 14.09.1981)
awarded
Name and type of Romanian Labour Ministry
organisation
providing education
and training
Dates 1997
Title of qualification Bombardier DASH – 8 aircraft pilot type rating
awarded
Name and type of Flight Safety , Toronto, Canada
organisation Flight Training Organisation
providing education
and training
Dates 2002
Title of qualification  Quality Assurance Auditor
awarded
Name and type of QUASARO S.R.L.
organisation Quality assurance services and training
providing education
and training
Personal skills and
competences
Personal skills and competences
Mother tongue Romanian
Other languages English Understanding Proficient user
Speaking Proficient user
Writing Proficient user
French Understanding Independent user

Speaking Independent user

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Russian Understanding Independent user

Speaking Independent user
Writing Independent user

 Extremely organized person

 Good abilities for synthetic and global views over concrete situations
 End-oriented work capacity
 Problem-solving attitude
Social skills and  Responsibility, self-respect and self-reliance
competences  Strong referential values of fairness, equity and dignity
 Ability to establish and maintain good working relations with people of
different national and cultural backgrounds
 Ability to live and/or serve in hardship locations

My work experience, professional background and extra-professional

activities have their roots in my dedication toward social change, to the
improvement of human life conditions and developing the societal mentalities
in order to live together in a better society
 During the years of studies and work, I chose to gain theoretical knowledge
in the module of Aviation Human Factor, an option to dedicate my work for
Organisational skills changing things to more safety
and competences  I voluntarily attended several professional international conferences, work-
shops, courses in order to improve my abilities in this above-mentioned
direction
 Several voluntary activities to which I committed myself gave me the
opportunity to exercise, prove and improve my managerial abilities and my
social skills as a very organized person with a problem-solving attitude
Computer skills and  MSWindows & MSOffice;
competences  Multimedia, Internet.
Driving licence European driving license in category B
Additional  founding member and, successively, vice-president and president of
information the Romanian Air Line Pilots‟ Association

 IFALPA Director – Romania


IFALPA HUPER (human performance) Committee member

Participation to international conferences, aeronautical meetings (with
regards to the pilot- profession), held in Brighton(UK), London(UK),
Budapest(Hungary), Amsterdam(Holland), Athens(Greece),
Bali(Indonesia), Hong Kong, Singapore, Bucharest(Romania),
Johannesburg(SA), San Francisco & NASA Ames Research Base(USA),
with presentations based on professional(aviation) interests (e.g. Hurry-
up Syndrome)
 Publisher and editor of AIRLINE PILOT (RO-ALPA in-house
professional magazine)
 Publisher and editor of RO-ALPA NEWSLETTER
Annexes List of the items attached to this CV:

1. “What I believe in ?”
1. I believe a company should be all about character, values and integrity.

2. I can tolerate mistakes, but I don’t tolerate repeating them.

3. I believe in growth and vitality - it is the oxygen that feeds our soul and spirit.

4. I dig for burried treasure.

5. I believe the secrets of success don’t work unless we do.

6. I do not believe that good is the same as great. I believe in great.

7. I believe consistent hard work is the yeast that raises the dough.

8. I may not always have the perfect solution immediately, but I am certain WE will find it.

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 9. I believe invincible commitment can achieve magical results.

10. I am convinced the harder you work, the luckier you get. Luck is what happens when
preparation meets opportunity.

11. I challenge everything, and assume nothing.

12. I am not afraid to think beyond my boldest dreams - because if you can conceive it, you
can achieve it too.

13. I have a low tolerance for shoddiness in anything.

14. I believe in miracles.

15. I am certain that no one remembers who came in second.

16. I think style adds luster to our work and invigorates us.

17. I believe that when I take on an assignment, I become an unrestrected partner in OUR
mission.

18. I have an abhorrence with status quo. I have an undisciplined enthusiasm for putting new
ideas in confrontation with the old.

19. I know that energy and enthusiasm are contagious.

20. I know you never lose until you quit trying.

21. I do not make promises I can’t keep.

22. I believe in soaring standards.

23. I do not settle for better when best is within reach.

24. I love challenges - it makes me stand on tip – toes.

25. I believe in ideals.

26. I have a striking commitment to working long and arduous hours to achieve mighty
objectives.

27. I think life and work outght to be fun.

28. I believe in audacious dreams.

29. I light fires.

30. I believe big is okay - if you keep your principles and quality.

31. I explore every small opening that may lead to new opportinities.

32. I believe in creativity, talent, and experience will win.

2. Personal qualities and assets

1. Productive factors
 Intelligence
 Ideas
 Imagination
 Industry
 Accuracy
 Enthusiasm
 Speed
2. Personal factors
 Honesty
 Loyalty
 Judgment
 Initiative
 Alertness
3. Special abilities and interests
 To get along with people
 To supervise
4. What I know

 My trade
 Related trades
 Business in general

3. Captain D. Vârlan - A brief presentation

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 I like 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 country. 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 27th,
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 Buzãu, 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 license suspention, and a non-flying job for five professionally dead
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 pilots‟ professional
gatherings during the last few 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‟
organization 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.

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