Marcel Robicheaux

Marcel Robicheaux
Faculty Specialist I -Lecturer
Location:
Aviation Education Center, Office
Mailing address:
Western Michigan University
College of Aviation
237 Helmer Road N
Battle Creek MI 49037-5305 USA
Marcel Robicheaux
Education:
  • B.S., Professional Pilot, Henderson State University, 2000
Bio:

Mr. Robicheaux medically retired from the airline industry and currently instructs in the College’s Line-oriented Flight Training program (LOFT) on the Boeing B-737 flight training device. He also serves as a lecturer in Air Cargo and Logistics. 

He holds a Bachelor of Science, Professional Pilot, from Henderson State University in 2000. At HSU he worked as an university flight instructor, CFII, MEI, and flew for state forestry service as a scout spotter. He then moved to Puerto Rico to pursue his passion of cargo flying where he operated as a DC-3 line Captain and Instructor Pilot flying part-135 for TolAir Cargo.

His part-121 airline career started at Northwest Airlink in Memphis, TN. As a Military reservist, Mr. Robicheaux was called into active duty service. He is a US Army Ranger school graduate and lead a 40 man infantry platoon in central Baghdad, Iraq. Returning home, he upgraded to Captain on the CRJ-200 and finished his time at the regional airlines as a Procedures, CRM, and Security Instructor.

Mr. Robicheaux completed his 20 plus year airline career as a FedEx Boeing B-767 Captain flying both domestic and international. While at FedEx, he served as B-727 Flight Engineer, B-757/767 Captain and Technical Aircraft Advisor. His last assignment was as an Instructor Pilot; Validator for Procedures and Advanced Aircraft Systems phases of training, Simulator (LVL D) qualified in Procedures, Maneuvers, and Operations phases of AQP flight training.