My Experience as a John Saull Scholarship Recipient by Oliver Burden Ahead of our launch of the 2025 John Saull Scholarship, have a read below of what Oliver Burden, our 2024 winner experienced..   My Experience as a John Saull Scholarship Recipient Hello! I’m Oliver Burden, a 32 year old Aircraft Engineer and one of the 2024 John Saull Scholarship...Read More

RAeS Hatfield Branch Sir Geoffrey De Havilland Memorial Lecture: Airworthiness – Moths to Flying Cars 16 October 2024 Weston Auditorium, De Havilland Campus Lecture As technology has developed, the assessment of airworthiness has also undergone massive change. Using his extensive experience in the industry, Lionel will discuss the critical balancing role that the Airworthiness Practitioners play in the development and...Read More

IASS 2025 Call for Presentations Flight Safety Foundation is inviting speaker presentation submissions for the upcoming 78th Annual International Aviation Safety Summit in Lisbon, Portugal, 4th – 6th November 2025 Deadline: 21st April 2025 Possible Presentation Topics: Health and Wellbeing Awareness of issues related to well-being, peer support programs, fatigue risk management, workforce development, and positive culture. Addressing the health...Read More

Remembering Professor James Reason (1938 – 2025) IFA is sorry to hear that Professor James Reason has passed away. His work continues to have a profound effect on thinking about human factors, safety and culture across many industries. Our thoughts are with his Family and Friends at this time. This International Federation of Airworthiness (IFA) video examines Human Factors Error...Read More

President Donald Trump fires TSA Administrator Pekoske, warns of more dismissals By Goda Labanauskaite The Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) David Pekoske has been asked to step down from his role following Donald Trump’s second presidential inauguration. On January 20, 2025, Donald Trump was inaugurated as the new President of the United States. On his first day, he signed...Read More

US Senate Committee advances Trump nominee to head Transportation Department By Reuters The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee voted to advance President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to head the U.S. Transportation Department. The committee voted 28-0 to advance the nomination of former Representative Sean Duffy. He has said Boeing BA.A needs “tough love” to get back on track after a 2024 mid-air emergency and...Read More

Former NBAA COO Chris Rocheleau Sworn In As FAA Deputy Administrator By Rytis Beresnevicius Old yet new leadership According to a report by The Air Current, citing multiple people familiar with the matter, Rocheleau was sworn in as the new Deputy Administrator of the FAA, replacing Mark House, who was the acting Deputy Administrator. The FAA’s Administrator role remains vacant. However,...Read More

Introduction to Human Factors and Safety Culture Over the last 50 years, we’ve seen tremendous progress toward reducing the rate of fatal general aviation (GA) accidents. We now have far less than one fatal accident per 100,000 hours of GA flying. That is impressive! We’ve come a long way, but to continue that success and get that rate even lower,...Read More

Strengthening strategic collaboration to enhance aviation training EUROCONTROL’s Aviation Learning Centre (ALC) and the JAA Training Organisation (JAA TO) have teamed up to formalise a strategic collaboration to enhance aviation learning and better address industry needs by developing joint aviation training programmes. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the two organisations looks to build on the core strengths of both...Read More

Air India to Establish New Maintenance Training Institute in Bengaluru By Len Varley India’s flag carrier Air India is moving forward with plans to establish a new Basic Maintenance Training Organization (BMTO) in Bengaluru. India’s flag carrier Air India is moving forward with plans to establish a new Basic Maintenance Training Organization (BMTO) in Bengaluru. The new training institute will...Read More