The 16th consecutive Flight Safety Workshop for Non-Commissioned Officers and also the 1st batch for the year 2023 was successfully concluded at the Air Force Museum Auditorium. The workshop took place from the 13 to the 17 of March 2023, and 44 NCOs from all directorates attended. This 5-day workshop covered the main flight safety areas such as Safety Management Systems, Aviation Physiology and Psychology, Bird Aircraft Strike Hazard, Aircraft Accident Investigation, Material Factor, Human Factor, Aircraft Fire Fighting and Aspects of Air Traffic Services. All lectures were conducted by an in house panel of qualified and experienced officers.

The opening address was delivered by the Command Flight Safety Officer, Air Commodore Amal Perera. The certificate awarding ceremony was conducted today (17 March 2023) in the presence of Commanding Officer No. 4 VVIP Squadron, Group Captain Dulip Hewavitharana, Chief Flight Safety Inspector (Flying), Wing Commander MVC Silva, Understudy Chief Flight Safety Inspector (Flying), Wing Commander PS Liyanarachchi, Flight Safety Inspector (Fixed Wing), Wing Commander SD Gordon, Flight Safety Inspector (Rotor Wing), Squadron Leader ST Saunders, Flight Safety Inspector (ATC), Squadron Leader WDLPA Silva and the course coordinator Staff Officer Flight Safety (Engineering), Wing Commander WMKN Wickramasinghe.