IASS 2019
More than 18 months ago, Flight Safety Foundation and the China Aviation Development Foundation (CADF) began planning and organizing the 72nd International Air Safety Summit (IASS). Those months and months…
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ICAO Assembly
Flight Safety Foundation submitted a working paper on pilot training and competency for consideration at the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) 40th Triennial Assembly, as well as information papers on…
Following Procedures
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) recently published an aviation occurrence investigation report that nicely highlights not only the importance of following procedures, but also how skipping a step early…
The Right Data
In early July, Foundation Vice President, Technical, Mark Millam and I traveled to Blacksburg, Virginia, to visit the Virginia Tech Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership (MAAP), which is one of seven Federal…
Lunch and Dinner
Flight Safety Foundation is offering two opportunities in the coming weeks to gather with your aviation colleagues and discuss safety-related topics over a meal. If you work in the Washington…
Reporting Culture
Runway safety−related events represent a potentially significant risk at airports around the world, but not all of the events are easily detectable. While runway excursions and wrong-surface landings are hard…
BASS 2019
The Foundation’s 64th Business Aviation Safety Summit (BASS 2019) gets under way in May in Denver, and if you haven’t already registered, you should consider signing up to attend the…
Rate or Risk
During the Foundation’s Singapore Aviation Safety Seminar (SASS) earlier this month, I was surprised to learn during one of the presentations that reducing runway incursion and excursion rates was a…
Sharing for Safety and Security
We often say that continuing to improve the industry’s safety performance requires collaboration among stakeholders from across the aviation spectrum, including manufacturers, operators, regulators, training organizations, air navigation service providers…
Changing of the Guard
As you have probably heard by now, Jon Beatty, who has been president and CEO of Flight Safety Foundation since April 2014, is leaving the Foundation at the end of…