Capt. Shane Tobin serves as Vice President of General Aviation UPRT at UPRTA, International, leading initiatives to strengthen upset prevention and recovery training standards across the general aviation sector. He is the Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Director, and a Senior Instructor at UPRT Australia in Brisbane — the Asia-Pacific region’s leading UPRT provider.

A current Type Rating Instructor, Check Pilot, and UPRT subject matter expert and fleet lead on the Boeing 787 for a major Australian airline, Shane previously served as a B767 Captain in both Australia and Japan. Capt. Tobin holds an Airline Transport Pilot (ATP) rating, and has held key industry leadership roles, including Committee Chair of the Aircraft Design and Operations Committee for AusALPA, Vice Chair of the same committee for IFALPA, and IFALPA representative to several ICAO working groups focused on flight procedures and UPRT.

A Member of the Royal Aeronautical Society (MRAeS)  and an Upper Freeman of the Honourable Company of Air Pilots, Shane is one of Australia’s foremost on-aircraft UPRT instructors, and his instructional experience spans aerobatics, formation, and warbird training, as well as UPRT and advanced flight instruction in both general aviation and B787, B767, and B737 simulators.