On participation of the IAC specialists in annual AIR Meeting

On September 20-22, 2016, the IAC laboratory specialists participated in annual Accident Investigator Recorder Meeting (AIR Meeting) of IRIG (International Recorder Investigator Group) study group held by accident investigation of bureau of France (BEA) with the participation of specialists from leading accident investigation agencies of such countries as France, Canada, Great Britain, USA, Australia, China, Germany, Taiwan, Brazil and many others. 

The meeting started from practical session held directly on the basis of BEA laboratory. During session all participants of the meeting could study BEA laboratory base and the most relevant practice of its specialists.  

Within the framework of the meeting participants of the study group presented reports on technical laboratories of their organizations and discussed the most relevant experience of accident investigation support in the field of flight data reading and decoding from different recording facilities (FDR, CVR and video recorders, portable navigation satellite receivers, tablet computers, video cameras, etc.)  

Specialists of the IAC Commission on accident scientific and technical support presented relevant information to participants on equipping their laboratory, shared their practice of new equipment usage (radiographic inspection installation and new hardware-software systems on data readout from damaged flight recorders) and presented detailed information on heuristic algorithm for decoding of damaged software of portable navigation satellite receivers newly implemented in IAC laboratories as well, algorithm of accident video reconstruction, etc. The group participants expressed genuine interest in technologies developed and used in the IAC laboratory.  

This annual meeting contributes to operational interaction of technical laboratories specialists from different countries which in turn contributes to maintaining a high level of accident investigation support.