Thierry Dubois is a freelance writer specializing in helicopters, business aviation and aerospace technology. He earned a degree in fluid dynamics from an engineering school in Toulouse, France in the mid-1990s. At an unexpected crossroads, he found his first job in journalism. In 1997, he started working for French aerospace weekly Air &amp; Cosmos in Paris. This lasted until 2000, when he moved south to Lyons. He then became a freelancer, working for various aerospace publications and has been part of the AIN team since late 2000. In addition to writing about business aviation, Thierry shares responsibility for the rotorcraft section. He also is a regular on-site writer for AIN’s daily editions at international airshows such as the Paris, Farnborough, Dubai and Singapore shows, as well as at EBACE in Geneva.
In 2007, he won the Honeywell award for “Best systems or technology submission” at the Aerospace journalist of the year awards. In 2013, he won an Aerospace Media Award for the "Best Safety, Training &amp; Simulation Submission."
In other activities, Thierry moderates international conferences on aviation technology topics. Thierry is married and has three children, who seem to begin enjoying the mountains–as their parents do.

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After <a href="?q=node/29946">grounding</a> Dassault Falcon 7Xs under its jurisdiction last Thursday, the EASA began to allow ferry flights of the trijet last night. The FAA–which also issued an <a href="http://rgl.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guidance_Library/rgAD.nsf/0/0c2cc9c83d76afdc8625789d00733583/%24FILE/2011-12-51_Emergency.pdf">emergency Airworthiness Directive</a> on Friday, grounding the U.S.-registered Falcon 7X fleet–is expected also to approve Falcon 7X ferry flights shortly. The “flight condition approval sheet” implies no limitation in distance; a ferry flight from London to São Paulo, Brazil, has already taken place, an EASA spokesman told AIN. Meanwhile, the manufacturer is continuing to investigate the causes of the runaway pitch trim event last Wednesday that triggered Dassault’s request to ground the fleet. A Dassault spokesperson told AIN that teams of engineers were sent from France and the U.S. to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where the incident aircraft is still sitting. The incident aircraft was flying from Nuremberg, Germany, to Kuala Lumpur with just two pilots and one flight attendant on board. According to the company, the aircraft’s fly-by-wire control computers were not found to be faulty. Another Falcon is flying some pieces of the incident aircraft’s equipment back to Dassault laboratories in France for more in-depth testing. The company spokesperson noted that the problem can also occur with conventional controls. Among the affected Falcon 7Xs were the two owned by the French government, one of which was grounded in Deauville, France, after flying French president Nicolas Sarkozy there for the G8 summit.

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