Flight Safety Awareness Workshop for SLAF Officers
11:12am on Tuesday 26th April 2016
The first flight safety workshop for Officers for the year 2016 was successfully completed on 23rd April 2016 at JC & SC premises, Sri Lanka Air Force Academy China bay.
The flight safety workshop was planned in accordance with the guidance and advice of the Commander of the Air Force. Training was organized by the Command Flight Safety Inspectorate of the SLAF to inculcate safety awareness among the officers who directly involves with Air Operations of the SLAF. Officers from 5 Branches (GD/Pilot, Ops Air, Tech Eng, E/ Eng, Log) who had not undergone any formal program on flight safety were participated for the workshop.
Commandant SLAF Academy Cby, Air Cdre PDKT Jayasinghe elaborated the aim of this workshop and its expectations to the participants during the Opening address. Two Crew Resource Management (CRM) facilitators, Captain SS Sri Segaram (Ex- Air Force/ Sri Lankan Air Lines) and Captain Ram Muthukrishnan (Chief CRM Facilitator for Sri Lankan Air Lines) gave an introduction to CRM followed by group activities.
Resource persons from the SLAF shared a wealth of knowledge with the participants during the workshop which included Safety Program Management by Wg Cdr AV Jayasekara, ‘BASH’ by Wg Cdr SSB Marambe, Aviation Physiology and Aviation Psychology by Wg Cdr M Vethothayan (Aviation Physician), Introduction to Aircraft Accident Investigations by Wg Cdr C Hettiarachchi and Human Factors by Sqn Ldr A Manage. Air Cdre PDKT Jayasinghe (Cmdt Cby) was invited by course coordinator on the request by the participants to share his thoughts on SLAF crash investigation procedures and Air Cdre SK Pathirana (CFSO) interacted and shared his views while addressing the concerns/ proposals made by the participants.
A total of 34 Officers’ followed the workshop for duration of 6 days and is the first out of two workshops planned for Officers. Two more workshops are planned for Officers and NCOs’ within this year.
The award of certificates to the participants and the closing address was made by the Command Flight Safety Officer Air Cdre SK Pathirana.
The flight safety workshop was planned in accordance with the guidance and advice of the Commander of the Air Force. Training was organized by the Command Flight Safety Inspectorate of the SLAF to inculcate safety awareness among the officers who directly involves with Air Operations of the SLAF. Officers from 5 Branches (GD/Pilot, Ops Air, Tech Eng, E/ Eng, Log) who had not undergone any formal program on flight safety were participated for the workshop.
Commandant SLAF Academy Cby, Air Cdre PDKT Jayasinghe elaborated the aim of this workshop and its expectations to the participants during the Opening address. Two Crew Resource Management (CRM) facilitators, Captain SS Sri Segaram (Ex- Air Force/ Sri Lankan Air Lines) and Captain Ram Muthukrishnan (Chief CRM Facilitator for Sri Lankan Air Lines) gave an introduction to CRM followed by group activities.
Resource persons from the SLAF shared a wealth of knowledge with the participants during the workshop which included Safety Program Management by Wg Cdr AV Jayasekara, ‘BASH’ by Wg Cdr SSB Marambe, Aviation Physiology and Aviation Psychology by Wg Cdr M Vethothayan (Aviation Physician), Introduction to Aircraft Accident Investigations by Wg Cdr C Hettiarachchi and Human Factors by Sqn Ldr A Manage. Air Cdre PDKT Jayasinghe (Cmdt Cby) was invited by course coordinator on the request by the participants to share his thoughts on SLAF crash investigation procedures and Air Cdre SK Pathirana (CFSO) interacted and shared his views while addressing the concerns/ proposals made by the participants.
A total of 34 Officers’ followed the workshop for duration of 6 days and is the first out of two workshops planned for Officers. Two more workshops are planned for Officers and NCOs’ within this year.
The award of certificates to the participants and the closing address was made by the Command Flight Safety Officer Air Cdre SK Pathirana.
