2023 Flight Safety Conference

29 & 30 November 2023 – Radisson Blu GHR Hotel, Rome, Italy


We are delighted to invite you to the ATR Flight Safety Conference. We are looking forward to sharing feedback, best practices and future flight safety developments to drive our flight safety performance.

The conference will take place in Rome, at the Radisson Blu GHR hotel, on the 29th and 30th November 2023.

An aperitif reception will be held in the evening of the 28th of November, starting with 6 P.M. (local time).

Below you will find the link for your registration to the conference.

For more information you can contact us at safety@atr-aircraft.com .

The ATR Flight Safety team looks forward to welcoming you to Rome.

Flight safety theme of the ATR Connection Week – Runway excursion prevention

We invite you to watch the following Flight Safety theme of the ATR Connection Week.

Flight Safety Connection TV #2 – Managing Every Approach Safely

"Managing every approach safely" is the theme of the second Flight Safety Connection TV broadcast: have a look at the video as well as the Q&As.

Flight Safety Connection TV #1 – Flight Crew Training

Find here the full film of Flight Safety Connection TV broadcast from the 14th of January 2021 as well as the Questions & Answers.

Prevent runway excursion in crosswind

18 reported runway excursions in crosswind landing between 2013 & 2017, ATR provides recommendations to avoid these events.

Cabin Safety

In the 2018 Flight Safety conference we provided an update on all aspects of cabin safety related to Stairs, Loading, Interphone / Public Address, Communication when wearing oxygen masks, Protecting Breathing Equipment (PBE), Lithium batteries and Cabin Crew Operating Manual Issue 4 (CCOM).

Product Policy

ATR continues to promote technological advancements that bring safety benefits to all operators.

Revised Degraded Performance and Severe Icing Procedure

LOC-I remains a threat to the industry. We provide recommendations specific to the ATR fleet to prevent such occurrences including updated FCOM/QRH procedures.

Prevention of Hot Brakes Tire Deflations Brakes Fires

Hot brakes and resulting fires has been a re-current issue. ATR provides recommendations to prevent these types of events.

Prevent Loss Of Control In Flight

LOC-I remains a threat to the industry. We provide recommendations specific to the ATR fleet to prevent such occurrences.

Prevent Dual Inputs

A growing threat in the industry is the risk of abrupt manuevres as a result of dual inputs on the control column. ATR provides recommendations to help flight crews prevent such events.

In Service Events Maintenance Engineering

In-service system reliability is a key contributor to maintaining safety margins hence the summary provided in 2018.

Fuel Management

This presentation focuses on the fuel management before, during and after the flight to mitigate the threat of low fuel quantity events.

FOA insight Wandering in the goldmine

The power of data ! While focusing on three topics ATPCS dynamic test, dual inputs and decelerated approaches, we highlight the power of data to analyse trends before more serious events ocurr.

Engine Fire Warning During Steep Slope Descent In Landing Configuration

We provide recommendations to avoid spurious engine fire warnings during descent. We extended the presentation to consider the benefits of standardised approaches.

Watch your speed in Cruise

LOC-I remains a threat to the industry. We provide recommendations specific to the ATR fleet to prevent such occurrences including updated FCOM/QRH procedures.

Watch your speed in Approach

A significant contributor to Abnormal Runway Contact events are associated with IAS above Vapp (Vref).

Exceedance events

To return your aircraft safely to service following an exceedance event we focus on "Identify, Inform, Inspect."

FDM

ATR promotes Flight Data Monitoring as a key part of your safety management system.

SMS

ATR promotes Safety Managements Systems for all. ATR can support your operation with pragmatic and simple steps to implement SMS.

ATR 72-600 pre-series MSN 98 at Francazal

Investigation feedback is key to prevent re-occurrence. Controlled Flights into Terrain remain a threat to the industry hence we share this feedback from this investigation.

Lithium Batteries

On any given ATR passenger flight there maybe over a 100 lithium battery devices in the passenger cabin. ATR strongly recommends ATR customers continually update their lithium fire procedures for cabin crew members.

Performance Based Navigation

The utilisation of satellite based navigation offers operators significant safety benefits. ATR promotes the use of Performance Based Navigation in all our operations.

Powerplant In Service Improvements

In-service powerplant reliability is a key contributor to maintaining safety margins hence the summary provided in 2018.

Portrait de Christopher Mc Gregor

Watch ATR's speech during the Safety in African Aviation virtual event which took place in October 2020.