Reykjavik Flight Safety Symposium

The Icelandic Airline Pilots' Association organises the annual Reykjavik Flight Safety Symposium. The next conference will be held on 24. September, 2021, and preparation is now underway.

This years speakers will be:

John Franklin is Head of Safety Promotion at EASA
Patrick Hudson is emeritus professor at Delft University of Technology in The Human Factor in Safety at the Department of Safety Science
Nick Seemel is Chairman of the IFALPA Safety Management Working Group (SMWG.)
Guðmundur Kristjánsson is a project manager at Isavia ANS
Ragnar Guðmundsson is an aeronautical engineer and investigator at the Icelandic Transportation Safety Board.

If you have any recommendations, suggestions, questions or comments, feel free to send us a line at fia@fia.is. The event is held in English, and admission fee is quite modest. Tickets will be available soon!

The event attracts, among others, air traffic controllers, pilots and people at administration level.

Recordings of the RFSS from previous years can be found here below:

2020

In 2020, the RFSS was held on March 13th, right at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic in Iceland. The event, held at the Hilton Reykjavík Nordica, was therefore "moved" online.

The speakers that participated in 2020 were the following. By clicking their names you will be forwarded to a recording of their speeches:

Dr. Sara Barsotti of the Icelandic Met Office - Responding to explosive eruptions in Iceland: changes and improvements over the last 10 years
Dr. Rory Clarkson from Rolls Royce - Volcanic ash and aviation - 10 years from Eyjafjallajökull
Harry Nelson, a former test pilot for Airbus - Are we ready for the challenges of tomorrow?
Hlín Hólm, chair of NAT-SPG - NAT-SPG
Captain Antti Tuori, MD, from IFALPA’s HUPER committee - Pilot's health - risks and solutions
Ingvar Tryggvason - Chair of the FÍA Safety Committee

2019

In 2019, the RFSS was held on April 11th, at the Hilton Reykjavík Nordica. The speakers that participated this year were the following. By clicking their names you will be forwarded to a recording of their speeches:

Ragnar Guðmundsson - RNSA - The Road from an Incident to an AD
Marika Melin - Karolinska Institutet - High-Flying Risks
Steinarr Bragason - AEEC - Datalink Objectives and Obstacles, the safety perspective
Graham Braithwaite - Cranfield - Maintaining an Authentic Safety Culture
José-María Lorenzo -The European Satellite Services Provider (ESSP) - EGNOS Service Provision
Kristín Sigurðardóttir hér og hér- Þróunarmiðstöð rannsóknaverkefna. She gave two speaches: Stress, Friend or Foe? & Resilience - What can we do?

Here you can watch the entire symposium including some words from Jens Þórðarson (Icelandair), Jeroene Kruse (ECA) and final words from FÍA President, Örnólfur Jónsson.

Högni B. Ómarsson, FÍA's Secretary, moderated the event.