Five decades of line flying, executive leadership, pilot training and evaluation, regulatory compliance, and aviation consulting across FAA and ICAO environments. The record of a career built entirely from within the operation.
Captain Schoofs is a currently active airline training captain and check airman whose career spans five decades of line flying, airline operations, pilot training and evaluation, regulatory compliance, and executive leadership across FAA and ICAO environments.
His record covers both ends of an airline: the flight deck and the simulator on one side, and the certificate, the training department, and the executive suite on the other. He has served as Chief Executive Officer of an airline in Mali, Chief Operating Officer of an airline in Ghana, Vice President of Training and Flight Standards, Director of Training and Flight Standards at two carriers, and Manager of Regulatory Compliance at Delta Air Lines.
That combination matters for a senior operational role. Decisions about training budgets, crew staffing, maintenance deferrals, and schedule pressure are made at the executive level — but their consequences arrive at the aircraft. Captain Schoofs has occupied both positions and understands the transmission between them.
He remains current and operationally relevant. He flies, instructs, and conducts checks today on the B737, B757, and B767. Despite extensive executive experience, his stated professional preference remains hands-on training, checking, and evaluating pilots.
Currently active as Training Captain and Check Airman. Simulator instruction, proficiency checks, and line checks across the Boeing narrowbody and widebody fleet.
Founded and leads World Aviator Group, a global aviation consulting and development firm. Air-carrier certification and training consulting across Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Americas. Captain, Training Captain, Check Airman, and Examiner on B-737, B-757, B-767, and DC-9 / MD-80. Continuous since 2006; overlaps several salaried positions listed below.
Held multiple roles within Delta over a six-year tenure, combining active line flying and training responsibilities with a regulatory compliance management function overseeing airline certificate areas and authority interface.
Director of Training and Flight Standards. B-767 Instructor.
Full airline P&L and operational command as Chief Executive Officer. Held executive and accountable management responsibility for an airline operating within an ICAO regulatory framework across West Africa.
Chief Operating Officer with full operational accountability. B-737 qualified. Managed airline operations, crew, training, and regulatory compliance within a Ghanaian ICAO-regulated environment.
Led training and flight standards across a nine-year tenure as Vice President. Active as Pilot, Instructor, and Check Airman throughout.
Training Captain on the B-737 NG for Boeing's airline training division.
Training Captain, Check Airman, and Training Center Evaluator (TCE) authorization held across the MD-80 series and B-737 fleet.
Approximately 28 years covering initial flight training and CFI years, early Part 135 and regional airline operations, and line flying on EMB-110, EMB-120, DHC-8, and Jetstream 3100. Helicopter time accumulated throughout. Record to be completed.
Training and evaluating pilots has been the centre of gravity of this career — 35 years of it, and the work he returns to by choice. He treats the instructor's role not as the delivery of information but as the development of judgment, discipline, situational awareness, crew effectiveness, and professional responsibility.
Regulatory standards establish required performance. The evaluator's responsibility is to apply those standards fairly and consistently while recognising that a signature ultimately places trust in another pilot's judgment. His debriefing style is conversational and diagnostic — he asks the pilot to reconstruct what was seen, understood, decided, and missed. The objective is not merely to identify an error, but to help the pilot understand the decision path that produced it.
The graduate work in industrial psychology is directly load-bearing on the training career: crew resource management, human factors, instructor development, standardisation, and the assessment of pilot performance all sit on that foundation.
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