SETP & Flight Tester Social Event

Presentation by Sen Dave Fawcett

26 April, 1730 for 1800 kickoff (or there abouts!)

Naval, Military & Air Force Club, Hutt St Adelaide.

Via the members' bar to The Long Tan room then back to the bar. Dinner is available at the club if you can make an evening of it.
 

Agenda

• Social gathering and general catchup and what's going on in the next few months,
• Senator Fawcett will present on his private senator’s bill to establish a Defence Capability Assurance Agency and a Parliamentary Joint Committee on Defence. The object of the Bill is to expedite the procurement of defence capability by providing decision makers (in Defence and Government) a high degree of confidence in the veracity and completeness of the information they use to make timely, risk-informed decisions, and to provide assurance to warfighters, the Government and the Parliament that the systems procured will be available for use when required and effective against the threats faced by Australia.

Club Casual Dress Standards Apply - Club Casual attire for gentlemen means tailored trousers or neat denim jeans, shirts with collars and sleeves (long or short), worn with or without a jacket or tie, or worn with a conservative pullover. Ladies follow the same club casual code as gentlemen.

Symposium 2023

The Flight Test Society of Australia completed a successful symposium over two days during the Australian International Airshow. The first day was conducted at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University in the Melbourne CBD with the second day at the airshow at Avalon Airfield. The highlight was guest speaker Billie Flynn who was visiting the airshow as a board member of one of our corporate members, the International Test Pilots School Canada. Billie presented an entertaining after-dinner speech at the symposium dinner. He also presented the final paper on considerations in designing an airshow routine for the F-35. The current RAAF F-35 display pilot was in attendance.

Billie Flynn and RAAF F-35 display pilot FLTLT Ross Bowman, (Bunga).

The Flight Test Society would like to thank the presenters, the attendees and in particular our corporate members who sponsored the event.

 

Flight Test Safety Fact

The January 2023 Flight Test Safety Fact is now available for download.

The Flight Test Safety Committee (FTSC) was formed jointly in November 1994 by members of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots (SETP), the Society of Flight Test Engineers (SFTE) and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). These and numerous additional organizations presently comprise the FTSC. The purpose of the FTSC is to initiate and sustain a flight test-related safety organization intended to promote flight safety, reduce the risk of mishaps, promote risk reduction management and continually improve the profession's communication and coordination.