Palais des Académies - Salle Prigogine - Rue Ducale 1 [Metro Station Trône] - Brussels

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Lecture begins at 12:30pm

By Patrick GOUDOU, Former Executive Director of the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and member of the Air and Space Academy (AAE)

We continuously exchange information with our relatives and friends by mail or social networks. We are informed in real time of all significant event happening somewhere on earth. Our personal GPS tells us with accuracy where we are and how to get where we want to go.

We can follow on beautiful maps in real time commercial flights all over the world… Yet airliners can disappear for ever…

Is it that aviation industry is no longer at the leading edge of technical progress ? Is it that aeronautical communication means are less pergorming than our private equipment ? Why radars are not continuously tracking planes ? Why an aircraft which uses GPS to know its position and route does not regularly report it to the ground ? What are the ICAO requirements in this matter ?

The conference will give answers to these questions and much more.

Free but required registration