In early June, Flight Safety Foundation is co-presenting in Brussels a two-day safety forum on flight deck automation issues and their impact on aviation safety. This discussion has been made possible through the hard work of our European Advisory Committee (EAC) and its chair, Tzvetomir Blajev, Eurocontrol’s coordinator of safety improvement initiatives. The other co-presenters are Eurocontrol and the European Regions Airline Association.
Anyone who has been a member of the Foundation or has followed our work over the years will know that this is an issue that we have frequently addressed in AeroSafety World and at our safety summits. We are pleased that the EAC and the co-presenters picked this topic for the safety forum.
Of course, the highly automated aircraft that are being manufactured these days are the safest ever built, thanks to the high level of engineering safety and automation. We’ll probably never know how many lives have been saved by automation in the…
