Issues arising from September 11 and from the Flight Safety Foundation’s accident prevention role shared billing at the 47th annual FSF/NBAA Corporate Aviation Safety Seminar (CASS), held in Phoenix last month. Airport security, bioterrorism and terrorism’s effect on aviation insurance received more than normal attention from the 340 attendees at the Pointe South Mountain resort.
Speakers at the three-day event approached traditional topics such as flight department safety programs, current FAA medical certificate policies and analysis of pilot risk-taking patterns. Robert Vandel, FSF executive v-p, began by reviewing current FSF initiatives. They included addressing incarceration of pilots following accidents in some nations, which Vandel said will be “a significant stand of the Flight Safety Foundation.” He added that the ALAR (approach/landing accident reduction) “tool kit,” previewed at last year’s CASS in Orlando, Fla., is being adopted by aviation agencies of several nations.
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