About

Rob McCall

I've spent 46 years where aviation safety wasn't a policy document. It was the job.

I started as a flight instructor in general aviation, then moved into corporate turboprops and jets. From there it was 19-seat commuter turboprops for a regional airline, followed by Boeing jets at America West, where I also worked as a 757 simulator instructor and FAA approved simulator check airman. The last 29 years have been at United Airlines, where I’ve flown as a Captain and served as an active Line Check Airman, the pilot responsible for evaluating whether the crews I fly with meet the standard. Over 20,000 flight hours across that whole arc, general aviation through international wide-body airline operations, plus about 2,700 hours instructing and evaluating in the 757 simulator.

I paired that with formal study: a Master of Science in Aeronautics from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, with graduate work in Aviation and Aerospace Safety Systems and in Human Factors. That combination, operational judgment backed by safety science, is what runs through everything McCall Aviation Consulting does, including independent work I’ve done developing circadian-adaptation scheduling models drawn from the peer-reviewed sleep literature, citing more than 70 published sources.

McCall Aviation Consulting, LLC is based in Colorado and serves aviation legal teams and Part 121 and Part 135 operators nationwide, across four practice areas: expert witness and litigation support, fatigue risk management, safety management systems, and operations manual development and review.