Name: Edward John Murphy

Date of birth / place of birth: September 15, 1956, Brooklyn, NY

Native city: Mix between Ellenville, NY (early years) and Ridgewood, NJ (adolescence)

Parents name: John Edward Murphy and Janet Elizabeth Murphy

Married? Yes: 31 wonderful years

Names of spouse / children: Jane Ellen Murphy / John Edward Murphy 28, James Patrick Murphy 25

Education: high school, college, degrees and such: I attended and graduated from the 74th class of the New York Military Academy, after which I attended Valley Forge Military Junior College and graduated with an Associate Degree in Criminal Justice in Class 76. To complete my college education, I attended to Elmira College in New York and graduated with honors. with a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice in the winter of ’77.

Military experience: dates, places, service positions: In all, they spent 21 years on active duty;

January 1978 entered service as a second lieutenant through the ROTC at Valley Forge.

May 1979 he attended flight school at Fort Rucker Al. At the end of flight school he stayed for an additional 3 months and attended the AH-1 Cobra helicopter qualification course.

May 1980 to March 1983 – Stationed in Fulda, Germany assigned the 11th ACR as platoon leader to 1st Lieutenant Cobra and later as platoon leader. I spent the whole time flying on border missions and was very lucky to keep flying the entire way. This was very unusual for a commissioned guy in those days.

May 1983 to September 1985 – Returned to Fort Rucker, Al. Cobra Hall (AH-1 qualification course) as an instructor pilot. After 18 months, I was selected as the flight commander to run the instructor pilot course as their standardization lead instructor pilot in charge of all initial AH-1 instructor pilot training for both Fort Rucker and units. line.

From July 1986 to March 1999: He served as NYARNG Active Guard and Reserve Instructor (AGR) pilot in Long Island NY teaching in UH-1H, OH-6A, AH-1S, UH-60A aircraft. During the period from 1986 to 1989, he was proud to be the Troop Commander of the 101st Troop Cavalry Squadron flying OH-6A and AH-1S aircraft, when the Squadron was converted from all ground troops to a mixed troop land and air. .

April 1989 to December 1995 – Served as aviation brigade standardization instructor pilot working directly for the brigade commander and S3 brigade regarding airman training requirements and assisting the unit instructor with their programs training.

December 1995 – March 1999 – Served as State Aviation Liaison Officer / Instructor Pilot Supervisor in this position until retirement. During this period, the state reorganized itself so that the UH60 jets retired their UH1 and AH-1 jets. It was during this period that I developed a UH-60 systems manual to help field pilots better understand their aircraft systems. In total, I produced several hundred copies that were copied locally and are still in use today. My biggest compliment was when Sikorsky used it as a companion guild for his international Blackhawk training programs.

Combat experience: when, where, hours, awards (air medals / DFC / Purple Heart, etc.) – None

Licenses / Classifications:

FAA

Airline Transport Pilot – Rotor Helicopter

Type – BH-204 / SK-92

Commercial Privileges – Single Engine / Multi-Engine Land Airplane

Instrument plane

Flight Instructor – Rotor Helicopter

Instrument helicopter

Pilot Examiner – SK-92

JAA

Type rating instructor – SK-92

Type rating examiner – SK-92

Flight instructor in simulator

Flight examiner in simulator

Hours: 7145 hours RW, 480 hours FW

Aircraft that have flown: military and civilian. Which one of you liked flying the most and why.

UH-1H, OH-6A, OH-58A, AH-1S, UH-60A, U-21A, T-42A, C-172, PA-22, SK-70, SK-92

Which one I have enjoyed the most is a difficult question. It would be a tie between the AH-1 and the SK-92. The AH-1 because it was my first instructor pilot job, and every instructor remembers their first instructor flight with a rookie pilot in the other seat. However, I would say that it is the SK-92 that earns my accolades due to its diverse mission capabilities – offshore or VIP passengers, SAR, and external cargo capability, not to mention nearly all weather launch capabilities. The SK-92 has forced me to stay vigilant in both my VFR and IFR skills.

Current Job – Please describe this in detail. You enjoy it? Satisfaction? I am currently the SK-92 Lead Pilot Instructor / Examiner at FlightSafety’s West Palm Beach Learning Center located in Florida. As the lead instructor, I help the S-92 program manager monitor the training of new instructors. As one of the aircraft flight instructors, I conduct both simulator and aircraft flight instruction for pilots, operating under Part 91 and 135 operations. I also work with the Sikorsky Flight Test Center Aircraft as the S-92 liaison with FlightSafety to collect new aircraft information to develop training programs as new systems are added to the SK-92. As a link, this allows me to regularly fly with the test pilots on the pre-production versions of the SK-92, during the final stages of testing the new system just before certification.

As for the question, do I enjoy it? This period of my career in aviation has been the most enjoyable experience of my life. As a pilot / instructor, I owe a lot to FlightSafety, because I had the opportunity to experience a wonderful opportunity that very few can enjoy. That’s the chance to get on the ground floor of a new aircraft still in development and work alongside test pilots and engineers learning how systems work directly from the engineer in charge of designing that system. Then flying the aircraft with the test pilots years before it was even certified. Do I enjoy my work? I went from enjoying and straight to ecstasy several years ago and it has never changed. I can’t help but hope that this same enthusiasm / passion will spill over into my teaching from my clients / pilots here at the Learning Center. So for this opportunity, I thank FlightSafety and Sikorsky for making this ordinary pilot’s dream come true.

Hobbies: Scuba driving, boating, camping in Lake George NY, family time with my children and grandchildren.

Most memorable flight: My last flight in the army as an instructor pilot. It was a multi-ship troop-raising operation. During the flight, while I was totally unconscious, one of the planes was videotaping the mission along with stills of me and my crew. During my retirement party, the teams from that training mission presented me with a video presentation of that day. One of the aircraft commanders on that flight was a CW2 pilot whom I advised and sent to flight school who had been a young UH-1H helicopter crew chief when I started in the unit 12 years earlier. That video and the memories of that day remind me that the mentoring program is very much alive and well in aviation both past and present.

Pilot instructor who made the biggest difference and why: Upon leaving the active military in 1985 for the first time, I joined the New York Army National Guard as a part-time pilot. I put in a full-time instructor pilot who saw potential in my training skills and placed me in UH-1, training me to be a UH-1 instructor. At the end of the training program, I quit my civil job and joined the unit as a full-time instructor with him, this working relationship lasted 9 years. This person showed me the importance of never giving up trying to learn and that self-improvement in aviation was a daily practice, not something you periodically studied for. So, he guided me in many ways. He retired in 1995 and I had the privilege of replacing him as a Pilot Instructor Supervisor for the last 3 years before I retired.

“If I could share a little advice with a new pilot, it would be …. For pilots, never stop learning, today’s aviation is constantly changing and relies more on technical knowledge and less on practice. It is not about how well the aircraft can fly, but how well you can configure and use the information that the aircraft provides you. To fellow instructors, my advice would be that your newest pilots want to learn, they all have a thirst for knowledge. So as a wise instructor in my early years he taught me once. that if the pilot did not know how to learn, we were the instructors who could not find a way to teach them.