Ali Bashir
Multan Cantt,Punjab
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
Work History
Consultant, UAS Subject Matter Expert (SME)
Deputy General Manager, Shaheen (Eagle) Airport Services (SAPS)
03.2024 - Current
- Planning and Coordination for Aircraft Handling in air and on ground
- Enroute clearance and timely departure and arrival of flights
- Evaluate and implement aerodrome procedures in coordination with Civil Aviation Authorities.
UAS Operator Instructor, International Aviation Technical College, Riyadh
09.2020 - 12.2021
- Theory and practical training of Diploma students for UAS Stream
- Training curriculum preparation (UAS Pathway) for Aviation Australia
- Seminars and workshops for UAVs capability awareness.
Commander Flight Operations, ABM SATUMA
04.2019 - 08.2020
- Management of flying operations
- Mission Planning, Test Piloting & Simulator Flying
- Flight systems data analysis
- Team coordinator, appraisal reports and briefings
- Projects progress record keeping
- Formulation of Operators Checklist
- Generating Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
Deputy Director, UAV Operations Pakistan Air Force (PAF) Air Headquarters
04.2016 - 09.2018
- Overall control for operations of all PAF UAV Brigades (Squadrons)
- Induction of new UAV systems
- UAV Flying policy making and implementation
- Selection of pilots for induction in UAV stream
- Risk management and mitigation in overall flying of PAF's UAS platforms
- Supervision of UAS operations in contested environment.
Officer Commanding, UAV Training Unit & Strategic Squadron, PAF
02.2009 - 08.2015
- Commander initial training and ops conversion of manned aircraft pilots to UAV operators
- Formulation of training courses and meeting deadlines of completion
- Overall command of three UAV Brigades for operations & maintenance
- External to Auto Pilot conversion capable UAV System operationalization & deployments
- On field R&D supervision of two Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE) UAV Systems
- Ops Team Lead in trials of weaponizing MALE UAS
- UAV Stream Bachelor of Science course preparation
- Operational Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance (ISR) Missions.
Flight Commander, Training & Operations No 786 UAV Squadron, PAF
12.2004 - 03.2008
- Instructional duties for newly inducted UAV pilots in realm of Mission Commander, External Pilot, Internal Pilot and Payload Operations
- Record keeping of undertraining pilots' performance
- Conducting training lectures and emergency handling briefings
- Preparation of daily flying schedule
- Mission planning & enroute weather update check for long range UAV missions
- ATC coordination for inflight traffic deconfliction.
Command Pilot, Northern Air Command (NAC), PAF
12.2004 - 03.2008
- Undertaking flying activities related to VIP movements of NAC
- Development of policies for border flying activities of North Sector in Pakistan
- Clearance of flying activities in North Sec region in coordination with competent authorities
- Updating and scrutinizing of flying tasks of brigades
- Ground forces and Air Force coordination for combine operations and exercise activities.
Squadron Pilot, No 14 AS Fighter Squadron, PAF
08.2000 - 04.2004
- Flying of F-7P (Mig-21) Fighter Aircraft
- Ops Conversion for bombing, strafing & aerial fight
- Grifo Radar (Leonardo) test flights.
Timeline
Deputy General Manager, Shaheen (Eagle) Airport Services (SAPS)
03.2024 - Current
UAS Operator Instructor, International Aviation Technical College, Riyadh
09.2020 - 12.2021
Commander Flight Operations, ABM SATUMA
04.2019 - 08.2020
Deputy Director, UAV Operations Pakistan Air Force (PAF) Air Headquarters
04.2016 - 09.2018
Officer Commanding, UAV Training Unit & Strategic Squadron, PAF
02.2009 - 08.2015
Flight Commander, Training & Operations No 786 UAV Squadron, PAF
12.2004 - 03.2008
Command Pilot, Northern Air Command (NAC), PAF
12.2004 - 03.2008
Squadron Pilot, No 14 AS Fighter Squadron, PAF
08.2000 - 04.2004