Flight safety seminar at the 2 ° Stormo

02/12/14

As part of the collaboration agreement between the Italian Air Force and the Aero Club of Italy (AeCI) aimed at improving the standards and increasing the attention on issues related to flight safety, last Friday the flight safety seminar at the 2 Stormo di Rivolto.

The initiative is aimed at pilots and operators in the general, commercial, pleasure and sports aviation sector and for flying enthusiasts.

The seminar opened by the commander of the 2 ° Stormo, Colonel Francesco Frare, and by Lieutenant Colonel Slangen, commander of the National Aerobatic Team, aroused considerable interest with a high participation of pilots, about 160, among which about 30 students of the aeronautical institutes " Volta "of Udine and" Nobile "of Pordenone.

Air Brigade General Eugenio Lupinacci, flight safety inspector, focused his speech on the cultural aspects at the basis of the prevention principles, illustrating the positive results obtained over the years through Just Culture and a now consolidated propensity for transparency that allows, from a Lessons Learned perspective, a targeted improvement work.

General Giulio Cacciatore, director general of the AeCI, carried out an analysis deriving from the statistics on flight accidents occurring in the field of pleasure and sports flight (VDS) and emphasized the lessons arising from the reported flight incidents, reporting some significant ones examples hoping for an ever greater application of the “Carrying Culture”.

Professor Buonsanti, from the University of Reggio Calabria, illustrated the "theory of complex systems and Safety Risk Management" and invited the participants to tell their experiences on the "Quaderno SV", which is one of the bodies of diffusion of the eCI .

Subsequently, the flight / ATM safety officer held a briefing on the Rivolto airspace and the review of the Northeast CTR and Mid-Air-Collisions.

Colonel Frare, closing the seminar, highlighted how "[...] the four C's of Communication, Collaboration, SV Culture and Change [...] are the basis for an effective collaboration for a solid work of awareness towards a effective prevention activity ".

Participants also had the opportunity to see an MB339PAN aircraft and some aircraft of the National Aerobatic Team during a training phase on static display.