Close Up Radio Spotlights Aviation Expert Witness Bert Botta

Petaluma, CA – When people fly an airplane for the first time, they get hooked, and Bert Botta got hooked.

Bert got his start in commercial aviation, after a tour in the Navy, as a pilot flying for TWA, during what he describes as the “glory days of Aviation.”

After retiring from TWA he went to work for NetJets, where he spent nine years flying high-end clients as a Gulfstream Corporate Jet Captain. He recently retired from NetJets to concentrate on his Expert Witness and Aviation Writing careers.

Today, he brings his 35 years and 16,000 hours of flight experience to the legal field as an Aviation Expert Witness and Writer.

As an Aviation Expert, Bert combines his background as a pilot with his training as a Licensed Professional Counselor. This gives him a unique perspective when the emotional fitness of someone is in question; this is in addition to other human factors related to an aircraft accident or incident.

His aviation areas of expertise include pilot and flight crew human factors, emotional and psychological effects on pilot judgment, pilot behavior analysis, accident analysis, with a specialty focus on the emotional fitness of individuals, pilot error, adherence to pilot professional standards, flight crew performance, pilot complacency and fatigue, aviation emotional intelligence, in-flight safety and cockpit behavior.

As for the future, Bert says he looks forward to working on more cases and growing through the process, especially when he can help in bringing emotional closure and healing to people in cases that have tragically impacted them.

For more information, visit www.bertbotta.com and his profile on SEAK