FLIGHT INSIGHT

Manned Aviation

Manned Aviation
Flight Insight Manned Aviation

Aviation Safety Advanced

Flight Insight is a collective of aviation professionals with decades of aviation auditing experience in airline, oil & gas, civil and military aviation operations across Canada and the United States. Whether you’re an aviation organization or your operation relies on aviation support, Flight Insight’s aviation compliance program offers comprehensive aviation consulting and auditing services to give you the support you need to ensure the delivery of safe, efficient, and reliable services exceeding industry standards.

Our Risk Management Auditing Services can be tailored to your specific needs. We partner with our clients to seamlessly fill the role of an internal audit and compliance monitoring department, providing expert independent aviation assessments of your management systems and assuring you of their integrity. Flight Insight’s highly experienced team takes a systematic approach to auditing to ensure their recommendations look at the organization, identifying potential areas of optimization that will reap real-term benefits and continuous safe aviation operations.

Flight Insight implements internationally recognized guidelines when performing an audit, providing an impartial snapshot of an organization’s operational management systems. 

With a commitment to exceeding industry best practices, our assessments consider the full scope of our clients’ operations including safety management systems. Flight Insight proudly utilizes the International Oil & Gas Producers (IOGP) Aircraft Management Guidelines (AMG) 590  the International Business Aviation Counsel (IBAC) and the International Standard for Business Aircraft Operations (IS-BAO) as the basis for our safety standards. IOGP provides recommended common guidance for the safe, effective, and efficient management of all aviation operations. 

Following IOGP Recommended Guidelines has proven to minimize risk in the management of aviation safety. Flight Insight’s fully accredited aviation auditors are approved by IBAC (International Business Aviation Council) IS-BAO (International Standards for Business Aviation) and International Air Transport Association (IATA).

We believe accountability to both professional international accrediting bodies and independent industry-recognized standards are fundamental when assessing operator management systems. Flight Insight’s principal philosophy is to develop and nurture an attitude, community, and platform for the advancement of aviation safety.

Aviation Safety Audit Program

Risk management auditing is a core safety management activity, providing a means of identifying potential problems before they have an impact on safety.

Aviation Safety Audit Program

Safety auditing is a core safety management activity, providing a means of identifying potential problems before they have an impact on safety.

Policy Development

Policy Development

Safety is our focus in all of Flight Insight’s Audit Program aviation activities. We are committed to implementing, developing and improving strategies, operational management systems and processes to ensure that all our aviation activities uphold the highest level of safety performance and exceed civil aviation regulatory standards.

The Flight Insight Audit approach can be used as an off-the-shelf system, or as a customized solution to meet your organization’s operational needs.

Policy Development

Policy Development

Safety is our focus in all of Flight Insight’s Audit Program aviation activities. We are committed to implementing, developing and improving strategies, operational management systems and processes to ensure that all our aviation activities uphold the highest level of safety performance and exceed civil aviation regulatory standards.

The Flight Insight Audit approach can be used as an off-the-shelf system, or as a customized solution to meet your organization’s operational needs.

Event Investigation

Event investigation and analysis is a means used to prevent future accidents by determining root cause. As such, the investigation or analysis must produce information leading to corrective actions to prevent another incident. Flight Insight will assist in this investigation to create appropriate corrective actions and determine root cause so future incidents can be controlled or eliminated.

All accidents  should be investigated, regardless of severity of injury or amount of property damage. Every event, even near misses, provides the opportunity to discover new ways to improve a safety program. Flight Insight combines the expertise and capabilities of our team to provide your company with a root cause to your event.

Event Investigation

Event investigation and analysis is a means used to prevent future accidents by determining root cause. As such, the investigation or analysis must produce information leading to corrective actions to prevent another incident. Flight Insight will assist in this investigation to create appropriate corrective actions and determine root cause so future incidents can be controlled or eliminated.

All accidents  should be investigated, regardless of severity of injury or amount of property damage. Every event, even near misses, provides the opportunity to discover new ways to improve a safety program. Flight Insight combines the expertise and capabilities of our team to provide your company with a root cause to your event.

Lowy Gunnewiek

Chief Executive Officer - Solex Thermal Science

Mr. Gunnewiek currently holds the position of Chief Executive Officer at Solex Thermal Science an international leader in the heating, cooling and drying of bulk solids.

Lowy spent a good portion of his 35 year engineering career at Hatch, a Global EPCM practice with over 20,000 staff where he managed the 400 million dollar oil and gas division.

Lowy has a long track record of running companies using his global experience, attention to detail and leadership qualities to help guide and grow their respective businesses.

Lowy, CEO of Flight Insight

Mark George

Managing Partner & Founder of EdgeMark Capital and Advisory Services Inc.

Mark is a proven business leader with global experience in multiple industries. Prior to starting EdgeMark, he served as the President, Chief Operating Officer and Director of Environmental Refuelling Systems Inc., a privately-held fuel logistics and distribution company headquartered in Calgary, Canada.

From 2011 through August 2016, he was the Director of Business Development for PricewaterhouseCoopers, leading the sales of professional services to companies in the oil and gas industry across the globe.

From 2000 to 2010, he served as the Founder and President of the Cielo group of companies, a regional provider of home and office design and construction services in Arizona.

Mark has an intensive interest in emerging technologies, having spent 15 years with Nortel, Bay Networks, DEC and Honeywell in progressive sales, management and executive roles throughout the Americas and Asia Pacific.

Mark George, Managing Partner of Flight Insight

Greg Hurd

Principal - Private Security Risk Management Practice

Greg is the principal of a security risk management practice with a focus on new markets, energy and cyber spaces. He is based in Calgary, Alberta.

He was most recently the Head of Security- North America for Statoil / Equinor ASA. He was responsible for the security management program including awareness, threat assessment, information protection, and advice on physical security safeguards. He contributed greatly to the reorganization of the security practice in the company following a terrorist attack on its facilities in 2013.

Greg has considerable experience in corporate security, working primarily in the energy sector for over 25 years. He has held senior roles with major international corporations. He has extensive law enforcement experience, including over 14 years with the Prince Albert Police Force as a senior non-commissioned officer, where he served in the Patrol Operations, Criminal Investigation (Youth) and Community Policing sections.

Committed to lifelong learning, he has been a guest lecturer at post-secondary institutions in security management and policing studies.

Greg holds the Certified Protection Professional (CPP) designation conferred by ASIS International. He is active with ASIS having served as an officer at the Chapter and Regional level and has contributed to the managing Board on issues of International membership.

He also has served with the Professional Certification Board (PCB, the governing body which confers the Certified Protection Professional designation as well as 3 others) in the development of board certification for security professionals. He is a past President of the PCB.

Greg has also served on the President’s Commission on Governance to create and introduce a new governance model for ASIS International.

Committed to his industry Greg has served as a past chairman of the National Energy Security Professionals (NESP) network. Greg is a two-time recipient of a volunteer recognition award from the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers for his contributions to the ongoing effort around energy infrastructure security. He volunteers with the Calgary Stampede and has been a candidate for the Board of Directors of the Stampede.

Greg holds a Master of Science degree in the study of Security and Risk Management from the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom, a Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety from the University of Alberta and is a Fellow of the Security Institute (UK).

Greg Hurg, Principal of Flight Insight

Erika Carrasco

Partner - Field Law

As a litigator, Erika brings over 12 years of experience providing advice and representation to businesses in the insurance, construction, energy and technology sectors. Erika has achieved success for her clients at all levels of Court in Alberta. 

More recently, she has focused a significant part of her practice on helping clients navigate the dynamic legal, business and insurance landscape of emerging technologies and risks, including drones, cyber security, autonomous vehicles, blockchain, and AI.

Erika is one of few lawyers in Canada with a focus and experience in emerging technology – as one example – she successfully argued the first appeal of a charge against a drone operator in Canada under the Canadian Aviation Regulations. 

Erika received her Bachelor of Commerce from McGill University in 2001 and her Bachelor of Laws from the University of Calgary in 2006.

Erika, partner at Flight Insight