The International Flight Inspection Symposium (IFIS) is an international conference organized by the International Committee for Airspace Standards and Calibration (ICASC) every two years. It gathers all flight inspection service providers, aircraft and flight inspection equipment manufacturers for flight inspection services worldwide.
The symposium is a platform for exchanging experiences and lessons learned from flight inspection activities in various countries, presenting new flight inspection technologies, and discussing future development trends. The IFIS 2024 was organized by ICASC in collaboration with the Japan Civil Aviation Bureau (JCAB), took place in Nagoya, Japan. The delegation of Flight Inspection Team participated in the IFIS 2024 from July 8-12, 2024, according to the symposium's schedule.
Conference scene
At the IFIS 2024, numerous flight inspection service providers, ground-based and satellite navigation signal quality monitoring units presented their experiences in implementing flight inspections and shared practical lessons learned from flight inspection traditional navigation systems and procedures flight validation under different terrain, weather, and air traffic conditions.
Flight inspection equipment manufacturers including Aerodata, Norway Special Mission, Sagem, Beijing Sky Aviation showed their products, introduced updated features, upgrades of their systems, capabilities for compacting flight inspection system and integrating it into UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles).
Additionally, UAV developers introduced and presented the applications of UAV in flight inspections, highlighting the advantages as well as current challenges and obstacles in using UAV for flight inspection in commercial aviation operation condition.
The conference also had presentations from aircraft manufacturers and maintenance services providers such as Embraer, Textron, and Duncan on aircraft operation, maintenance, and modification activities. Other companies, including Japan Radio Company, Rohde & Schwarz, NEC, Hitachi Kokusai Electric, and the Electronic Navigation Research Institute, introduced specialized aviation equipment used in navigation and air traffic control.
Delegation of Flight Inspection Team participate IFIS 2024
In the conference all discussion sessions were lively, with numerous feedbacks, contributions, and questions directly related to the implementation of flight inspections in many countries, sharing valuable lessons and experiences in conducting flight inspections and flight procedures validation.
Through the symposium, the delegation of the Flight Inspection Team met many flight inspection providers, exchanged experiences, absorbed new technologies and trends in flight inspection, and considered the feasibility of implementing these advancements in Vietnam in the present conditions and in the coming years to provide flight inspection services more efficiently.