Bert Botta Captain TWA/NetJets (ret) Petaluma, CA 94954 415.320.9811 cell Email: botajet@gmail.com     CAPTAIN BERT BOTTA AVIATION EXPERT WITNESS CV & BACKGROUND https://seakexperts.com/members/16027-bert-botta General Specialties: Aviation & Aerospace and Human FactorsSpecialty Focus: Aviation Psychology, Pilot Error, Pilot Human Factors, Pilot Professional Standards, Flight Crew Performance, Pilot Complacency, Aviation Accidents, Pilot Fatigue, Pilot Performance, Flight Crew Coordination, […]

Leadership For the New Aviator Flying Naked: How Owning Your Issues Will Fast Track Your Career! Lesson #1 The things that you’re hiding from will hurt you If you start out  thinking you can’t do something, you’re right. A couple times along the timeline of my flying career, especially after a bad sim period, I […]

Your life can become richer, in relationships, money and experiences by becoming a good “Connector!” Ask me how “Bert is what Malcom Gladwell calls “A Connector.” He forms many more relationships than most people have either the inclination or the capacity for.  He stays in touch with them, and is influential with them well beyond […]

Flying by the Seat of My Pants: An Aviator’s Journey From Hot Rods to God As a kid growing up Catholic in San Francisco, I learned about Heaven. But I wasn’t quite sure how to get there. Until the church offered me a sure-fire way. Make the nine first Friday services during Lent, the church […]

Just Another Day in Pilot Paradise: Slogging Through Rain, Snow and Ice in the Northeast! If it isn’t bad enough getting up at 2 am in the morning to go to work, we were looking at a 14 hour duty day, made even more exciting by lousy weather and an anti-ice system poorly designed for […]

Dead Men Not Talking© Four guys at breakfast, all at the same table, each reading a newspaper; backs turned away from each other as if they were carrying a mutual grudge or had been offended by the mere presence of one another. They were oblivious to anything but the bright colors of the USA Today […]

“Just Don’t Be Yourself!”   INTRODUCTION What do you mean, “Just don’t be yourself!?” That’s ridiculous! You know that everyone tells you to “just be yourself” when you’re trying to figure something out and you don’t know what to do! Maybe this story about Henry the Nerd will help explain why “just being yourself” isn’t […]

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Chuck Carter, the Coast Guard Rescue Swimmer who doesn’t think he’s a hero answers the question: What’s Your Definition of an Everyday Hero? https://www.buzzsprout.com/955717/5489500