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Wall of Honor Level:
Air and Space Friend

Honored by:
Mr. George T. Faison

Walter E. Faison has over 50 years of aviation experience. Beginning in the military as an air traffic controller with the Army Air Corps, Mr. Faison's career has included 32 years with the Federal Aviation Administration, and 23 years as a principal with the ALARIS Company an aviation consulting firm he founded in 1981.
His FAA career began with ten years as an air traffic control specialist and supervisor at Washington ARTCC. The next ten years were in research and development; performing operations analyses and project management of air traffic control studies at the National Aviation Facilities Experimental Center, N.J. These studies included locations such as New York, Atlanta, Chicago, Kansas City, Los Angeles, San Diego, Sacramento, San Francisco, Seattle, Athens (Greece) and Rome (Italy). At FAA headquarters, within research and development, Mr. Faison participated in the development of separation standards for parallel runways spaced less than 5,000 feet apart; the analyses of airport/ATC system capacity and delays in major metropolitan areas.
The last 12 years at FAA were in the Office of Policy and Plans where he participated in or directed various policy and economic studies, including such issues as airport/airway development aid, slot allocation methods, collision risk analysis, two vs. three man crew safety, aircraft loan guarantee, and airport/airspace simulation modeling. Mr. Faison received the Secretary of Transportation's Meritorious Achievement Medal for his work.
He retired from FAA as Chief of the Systems Analysis Division, Office of Aviation Policy and Plans. He then established The ALARIS Company, which has conducted over 60 major aviation system studies. These include airport capacity and delay analyses, safety assessments associated with near midair collisions, pilot deviations, operational errors, runway incursions and accidents involving particular types of aircraft. Most recently, ALARIS has been involved with analyses of the Free flight Concept and the Advanced Air Transportation Technologies (AATT) program. Using a system model which simulates OAG traffic, representative GA and military traffic through the ATC system (70 major airports), ALARIS developed estimates of the capacity and delay benefits resulting from various advanced system elements at 30 major airports.
Mr. Faison has been a licensed pilot for over forty-five years.