Conferencia invitada
"Diario de un Piloto"
D. Ignacio Lombo, Airbus Defence and Space Chief Pilot

Fecha: 15 de junio 2023
Hora: 16:00
Lugar: Salón de Grados, Rectorado de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
c/ Madrid nº 126, 28903 Getafe, Madrid

Ignacio Lombo has been working as Airbus Defence and Space Chief Pilot since December 2009.

Experimental Test Pilot, he has been with the A400M programme since March 2005 as a member of the design and test-team. He co-captain the A400M on its first flight with Chief Experimental Test Pilot Ed Strongman.

Mr Lombo has additionally flown the entire Airbus family: A300, A320, A330, A340 and A380. He has more than 250 hours on the A380, including high altitude testing in Ethiopia, high temperature testing in the UAE, noise tests in Seville, Spain and route-proving in Bogota, Colombia.

In June 2007 he was also part of the maiden flight crew of the A330 MRTT multi-role tanker/transport. Prior to that, Mr Lombo flew on the Eurofighter Typhoon programme from 2003.

Ignacio Lombo is an experimental test pilot graduate of the French school for flight test personnel EPNER (Ecole du Personnel Navigant d'Essais et de Reception). He was then assigned in 1998 to the Spanish Air Force test centre CLAEX (Centro Logístico de Armamento y Experimentación) where he worked on the Typhoon, Mirage F1 mid-life upgrade (MLU), and Northrop F-5 MLU programme for which he made the maiden flight.

Mr Lombo's flying career began in 1989 when he graduated from the Spanish Air Force Academy and went on to fly F-5 fighters. He became an F-5 instructor in the Spanish Fighter School and flew the Mirage F1 in the 141st Squadron at Albacete until 1997.

Among his 4,250 total flight hours he has amassed some 1,500 hours of flight-testing.

In addition to flying he enjoys practicing long-distance triathlon among other sports.