Giorgio has 34 years of flying experience, of which twenty have been in flight testing. He holds a Post Graduate certificate in Aerospace Engineering from Bristol University in the UK and an Airline Transport Pilot License. He is a Graduate of NTPS 1990, Flight Test Engineer Course. Giorgio’s flight- testing experience as a pilot and flight test engineer spans Fixed-wing and helicopter, civil and military. He has worked as a contractor for several major aircraft manufacturers on Part 23, 25, 27 and 29 certification projects. During these he has worked with UK CAA, FOCA, Austro Control, FAA, and Transport Canada.

Projects have included Performance and Stability and control flight tests, cockpit workload, (AW-139, 109LUH at Agusta) natural icing flight tests (Embraer-145, Alenia C-27J, IPTN CN-235-200, Diamond DA-42), powerplant and systems certification and avionics systems (Grob G-180Spn). Contracted by Diamond Aircraft to set up a Flight test department in Canada, he conducted initial proof-of-concept flight test for the D-Jet Prototype as well as the whole Diamond piston engine line. Giorgio’s military experience includes participating in the flight test of the Mirage IIIBZ upgrade for the South African Air Force and development and qualification flight tests of the SA332 Oryx medium helicopter. Subsequent experience includes Stores Certification and Weapons Testing, Navigation Systems, targeting pod and Laser Warning receiver tests.

Giorgio has over 24 years of experience training test pilots and flight test engineers and in designing and managing military training programs for customers from around the world. He has flown over 3200 hours on over 76 types.

Giorgio is a Fellow of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots (SETP)and a Fellow of the Society of Flight Test Engineers (SFTE).
He is the recipient of the 2022 SETP Tony LeVier Award for Flight Test Safety and the 2022 SFTE Kelly Johnson Award for lifetime achievements in Flight Test Engineering.