Nair was commissioned into the transport stream of the Indian Air Force in June 1980 . He has clocked over 7000 hours of flying and has experience on many different types of aircraft 's including Otter , Avro , An-32 , Dornier and IL-76 . He held several key operational and administrative appointments at various stages of his service including Chief Operations Officer of a Transport Base ; Commanding Officer of a strategic Air lift Squadron ; Director Operations ( Transport ) at Air Headquarters ; Air Officer Commanding of AFS Chandigarh ; Assistant Chief of the Air Staff ( Personnel Airmen and Civilians ) ; Assistant Chief of the Air Staff ( Transport & Helicopter ) and Senior Air Staff Officer of Training Command . He has also been extensively involved in many military operations including Operation Pawan , Operation Cactus , Operations Parakram and Operation Safed Sagar . . He has led multiple airborne exercises with foreign countries including South Africa in 1999 , USA in 2003 and Russia in INDRA 2007 . He was involved in numerous disaster relief operations during the 2001 Gujarat earthquake , Super cyclone in Orissa , 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami , Mumbai Floods , Cyclone Katrina , China Earthquake and was the Air Force co-ordinator for Operation Rahat . He is a qualified Flying Instructor , has been an Air Force Examiner and is the Commodore Commandant of 44 Squadron ( Mighty Jets )
2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
S R K Nair