On November 12, 2024, the VI Eurasian Aerospace Congress was held in Moscow. Special attention – is paid to the latest technologies, aerospace engineering, flight safety and increasing export products.
Oleg Storchevoy, Chairman of the Interstate Aviation Committee took part in the plenary session the main topic of which was focused on strategic changes in aerospace industry. At the plenary session the experts discussed the development of effective communications between industry enterprises, scientific organizations and customers of products to ensure technological sovereignty, as well as the prospects for creating new technologies in the aerospace industry.
One of the key events of the congress was the conference “Flight safety – new challenges”, organized by the Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC). The event was attended by representatives of the IAC, Federal Air Transport Agency, airlines, airports, industry universities and companies implementing unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and artificial intelligence. The moderator was Sergey Zayko, Deputy Chairman of the IAC.
Speaking at the conference, IAC Chairman emphasized that the Flight Safety analysis of accident investigations shows the emergence of new risks and threats for civil aviation. They are related to the introduction of artificial intelligence, an increase in the volume of air transportation, the intensive use of unmanned aircraft systems, the implementation of new technologies and a shortage of aviation personnel. All these factors affecting flight safety should be carefully studied in order to prevent accidents occurrence in the future.
Oleg Storchevoy speaking about new challenges said that in 2024 the IAC started investigation of accidents involving UAS. “This is a new direction for us, but we understand that in the future we will have to deal such investigations more often. We are accumulating new experience and developing new approaches to studying the circumstances of such events” – stressed the IAC Chairperson at the round table.
Sergay Zayko, continuing the topic if UAS use, emphasized that the drones developers today approach the issues of systems design from their own side, and standardization in this area is still underdeveloped. And from the point of view of investigating aviation events, this creates certain difficulties foe the IAC – different systems, different data sets, different protocols for transmitting and storing information, etc. It is necessary to rely on international experience consolidate resources for developing standard approaches and certified solutions in the field of UAS development and operation.
Alexander Schukin, Head of the Accident Prevention and Flight Safety Management of Volga-Dnepr Airlines, LLC, briefed participants of the round table with the set of measures taken by the airline to implement IT systems in flight safety management.
Anastasia Neplyakhovich, Director of Development at STRATUS LLC, spoke about UAS flight simulation program which includes basic and applied industry scenarios for using UAS with an increasing complexity curve. The high variability of the simulator allows to practice applied skills in compliance with the requirements of aviation industry, customer needs and tasks of a future and current external pilot.
Rustem Miftakhov, a business analyst, invited the participants to a boarder implementation of software into business processes for various tasks of the industry, which will optimize business-processes and offer consumer a better product.
The participants of the round table were able to ask the speakers questions and exchange views on new challenges affecting the flight safety level.
The site of the VI Eurasian Aerospace Congress brought together more than 600 delegates from Russia, as well as the states of the Greater Eurasian Partnership including BRICS+ countries. The Eurasian Aerospace Congress was established by the Eurasian Partnership of Aerospace Clusters in 2013 as an intersectoral communication platform of industrial enterprises, scientific and educational centers and the expert community in the aviation and space sectors. The official website of the Congress — www.congress.aero.
