PROFILE NBAA MAINTENANCE
COMMITTEE Priest has been a member of the NBAA Maintenance Committee for many years. He is a past chairman of the committee and serves as an active member of the committee’s
leadership team. We asked him what benefi ts he has gained from being a committee member. “Let me put it this way,” he says. “When I approached a company executive about volunteering with the NBAA Maintenance Committee and
explained it was a volunteer position and something that the company would need to bear the expense for, he said, ‘Absolutely. I want you to be involved with that.’ Being involved in the NBAA Maintenance Committee has built networking opportunities within the industry. The business aviation world is a big world, but it’s a small family. Every opportunity that you have to network is benefi cial. And the committee needs new members with new perspectives.” Priest is also a board member at the Southern Museum of Flight in Birmingham. One of the things that he is working on in both the NBAA Maintenance Committee and the Southern Museum of Flight is the workforce development initiative. “I believe we are at a critical point in our industry where we can see the need for technicians is in front of us,” he says. “For years, we talked about a perceived need. It’s now standing right in front of us. There’s a critical need for new technicians and avionics technicians. There is a worldwide critical need right now. Industry needs to be working together on everything from the education programs like we are doing here at the museum where we are starting with elementary age all the way to high school, to the initiatives that we see in the NBAA Maintenance Committee and other alphabet groups. We need to work together — we can’t run parallel paths. We need to merge our collective energies and work smart to fi gure this thing out. That has been an enjoyable part of the work that I am doing both with the maintenance committee and the museum — getting to work with other groups and local and State agencies. Part of my goal in this profession has been to leave it better than I found it. I think that’s one way that we can all do that — invest in our kids and invest in our future!”
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