Hello, FPAW Community.
The terms of either four or five current FPAW Steering Committee (SC) members expire on September 30th each year. This year, 2025, there are four current members whose terms are set to expire at the end of this month:
- Elizabeth Wilson/Synoptic Data (Providers)
- Joel Siegel/FAA (RED & Academics)
- John Steventon/FAA (Regulations & Standards)
- Rex Alexander/Vertical Flight Society (Users)
In addition, two current FPAW SC members voluntarily withdrew from the committee earlier in 2025:
- Marilyn Pearson/CAE (Regulations & Standards)
- Matt Johnson/Metro Aviation (Users)
Finally, current FPAW SC member Nathan Polderman/United Airlines (Users) will be transitioning to the FPAW Co-Chair position effective October 1, 2025 (see yesterday's newsletter), resulting in one more Users opening.
With the above as background, recall from an earlier newsletter that there were 11 candidates for open FPAW SC positions starting on October 1, 2025, and that voting was projected to take place early this month. We can now report that the current FPAW SC members submitted their ballots late last week into early this week, and that their votes have been tallied (no hanging chads, thank goodness).
Matthias and I are thrilled to announce that the following aviation weather enthusiasts will join (and, in one case, rejoin) the FPAW SC on October 1, 2025:
- Elizabeth Wilson/Synoptic Data (Providers)
- Scott Landolt/NCAR (RED & Academics)
- Gordy Rother/FAA (Regulations & Standards)
- Gus de Azevedo/Oklahoma State University (Regulations & Standards)
- David Dillahunt/Southwest Airlines (Users)
- Beth Welliver/Joby Aviation (Users)
- Christian Amaral/ALPA (Users)
Please join us in congratulating them and welcoming them all to the FPAW SC. The information on the FPAW web site will be updated in the coming weeks to reflect all the changes listed above.
Matt Fronzak and Matthias Steiner
FPAW Co-Chairs