BRATISLAVA, May 27, (WEBNOVINY) — The best military flights safety experts met in Bratislava at a five-day conference AFFSC(E) (Air Forces Flight Safety Committee (Europe)). Top flight safety representatives of world’s best-developed air forces from individual states attended the meeting. AFFSC(E) conferences aim to share information on airplane accidents, new trends in flight safety, investigation of aerial events as well as solutions to current problems of individual air forces. Such meetings help fulfilling one of the basic principles of flight safety, which is preventing occurrence of airplane accidents based on previous experience observing the principle that the same mistakes cannot be repeated. Activities of AFFSC(E) is continual also between individual conferences, which facilitates uninterrupted exchange of information in the area of flight safety and based on the updated “contact lists”, information on registered airplane accidents in states owning the same types of aeronautical technology are continually received. The conference was attended 41 representatives or flight safety from 27 states. Great Britain presides over the committee in the long term.
Slovak Air Force Commander General Martin Babiak opened the conference in Bratislava. The Safety Management System was high on the conference’s agenda this year. Participants presented aerial events and experience of the states that operated hundreds of thousands of flight hours over the past year. That is a huge database of experience and results of investigations, which will represent a strong instrument in the area of further airplane accidents prevention for every participant state. Assessment of the impact of budget reductions of individual states on the flight safety was also among topics discussed at the conference. Besides presentations of participant states, PC safety management system programs, aviation pathology and new trends in development of flight stimulators were presented at the conference. Spokesman for the Slovak Armed Forces Peter Michnica informed SITA news agency about the event.
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