EXECUTIVE WATCH
Jean-Charles de Troy Managing Director of Helisim LLC By Rick Weatherford
“I have the best job in the world. If I have to start over again, I’d do this job exactly the same.” That’s a rarely heard bold statement in any industry, but Helisim LLC Managing Director Jean-Charles de Troy proudly proclaims it from deep in the heart of Texas where he helped establish Helisim in North America. With centers in both France and Texas, Helisim was founded 21 years ago from a consortium of Airbus, Thales AVS, and Défense Conseil International. It is a pilot’s pilot training company — literally. For de Troy comes from a father who was a Bird Dog pilot for France
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in the Algerian War then continued to fly as a private pilot for pleasure. He passed his love of aviation on to his son, who says, “Flying is in my DNA.” As a young child, de Troy always carried a toy airplane in his hand, which he would put down to hold one of his very first books: “The Little Aviator.” The story stuck. Even when de Troy was old enough to work alongside his two sisters in their parents’ restaurant named Le Chanzy in the northern French town of Arras, he dreamed of being a pilot.
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