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Mr Thomas Kirton

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Professor


Campus: Daytona Beach Campus

College: College of Aviation

Department: Aeronautical Science

Contact Information:
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
600 South Clyde Morris Boulevard
Daytona Beach, FL 32114

Office Building: COA Bldg

Office Location:

Phone: 386-226-6892

E-mail: Thomas.Kirton@erau.edu

Current Class Schedule:

  • ASC_101_01DB - Aero Science Success
    Instructional Center Room 102, Lecture Wednesday 08:00AM - 09:00AM
  • ASC_101_01DB - Aero Science Success
    Instructional Center Room 102, Lecture Wednesday 08:00AM - 09:00AM
  • ASC_101_02DB - Aero Science Success
    Instructional Center Room 102, Lecture Wednesday 09:15AM - 10:15AM
  • AS_121_01DB - Private Pilot Operations
    Instructional Center Room 102, Lecture Monday Friday 08:00AM - 09:00AM, 01/13/10 - 05/05/10;

    Instructional Center Room 102, Lecture Tuesday Thursday 08:15AM - 09:30AM, 01/13/10 - 05/05/10
  • AS_121_01DB - Private Pilot Operations
    Instructional Center Room 102, Lecture Monday Friday 08:00AM - 09:00AM, 08/24/09 - 12/09/09;

    Instructional Center Room 102, Lecture Tuesday Thursday 08:15AM - 09:30AM, 08/24/09 - 12/09/09
  • AS_121_02DB - Private Pilot Operations
    Instructional Center Room 102, Lecture Monday Friday 09:15AM - 10:15AM, 08/24/09 - 12/09/09;

    Instructional Center Room 102, Lecture Tuesday Thursday 09:45AM - 11:00AM, 08/24/09 - 12/09/09
  • AS_221_08DB - Instrument Pilot Operations
    College of Business Room 126, Lecture Tuesday Thursday 09:45AM - 11:00AM

Education:

  • MAS in Aeronautical Science, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ
  • MBA in Business Admin in Aviation, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ
  • BS in Psychology, North Georgia Coll & State Univ

Experience:
Tom Kirton is married and has one daughter. He has over 10000 flight hours., about 5000 of which are dual instruction hours given to Private through ATP students in a variety of airplanes. He came to Embry-Riddle in 1976 as an instructor pilot. In 1978 he served as Chief Flight Instructor during the first year of the Prescott campus operation. He left the University for 6 years in the 1980s to work as a corporate pilot flying a Cessna 421 and a Kingair F-90. Subsequently he returned to the Embry-Riddle Daytona Beach campus and has served as a line instructor pilot, Manager of Flight Standards, and Chief Flight Instructor. Currently he is an Associate Professor in the Aeronautical Science Department. He is also the Chief Flight Instructor and ACR for the Embry-Riddle Flight Instructor Refresher Clinic, and is a presenter specializing in Human Factors, Flight Maneuvers and Procedures, and Collision Avoidance.