Jakub Marszałkiewicz
The author is an aircraft pilot and graduate of the LZN Aviation College in Wrocław. He holds a Master’s degree in AirTraffic Management obtained at the Department of Aviation of the National Defense University (AON) in Warsaw and postgraduate studies in this field at the Polish Air Force Academy (WSOSP) in Dęblin. In 2012 he received a Doctorate in Defence Science on AON. His dissertation concerned the use of aviation in armed conflicts. He has also completed the Instrument Flight Rules training in Poznań and has piloted multi engine airplanes at the Canadian Flight Academy in Toronto as well as theoretical courses on the Airline Transport Pilot Licence ATPL (A) and Flight Dispatcher. He has also flown gliders.
Currently he works as a lecturer on aviation, logistics, transport and national security at the Banking College in Gdańsk, Gdańsk University of Technology, and sometimes also at other universities. He is also a member of the Lower Silesian Aviation Academy, operating at the Open Museum of Technology Nadbor in Wrocław. For many years he has published articles for aviation magazines. He has produced dozens of articles for the Polish aviation press and several in Great Britain and Canada as well as several aeronautical and academic manuals for AON and WSOSP.