Training Programme

The UK Air Display Industry, the second largest outdoor spectator sport after football, with attendances exceeding 6.5 million, has an enviable safety record. 2006 marked the 55th. year since the accident to the DH 110 at Farnborough in 1952, the last time a member of the public was killed or injured at an Airshow in this country, with only a minor exception. This safety record is no accident and stems from both a sensible regulatory regime and constant awareness of safety factors by both pilots and ground organisations. Regular training and updating, and a wide exchange of views, play an essential part in maintaining this awareness.
To this end the Association arranges and hosts regular Workshops for both its own members and those of outside organisations associated with the Display Industry, often in association with the Civil Aviation Authority. In recent years it has organised training for the Royal Air Force and, at the request of continental authorities, for European Airshow Display Directors. The latter have drawn delegates from as far afield as Finland, Malta and Slovakia

Workshops for Emergency Services and Local Authorities

Since 1999 ADAE has hosted regular one-day seminars for representatives of Local Authorities and Emergency Services to explain the division of responsibility between the various agencies involved in an Airshow. It was explained just how the planning and execution of major air events differs from that required for a pop concert or similar outside event. These seminars have brought together representatives of the Police, Fire Services, Local Authority Emergency Planners, NHS Trusts and Coastguard.
In spring 2002, we changed the format of the Workshop to a two-day event, the second being devoted to practical syndicate work in the lead-up to a major flying display. However since then we have reverted to a single day..
Feedback from those who have attended these Workshops indicated there was a need to plan more such events for those who had been unaware of the earlier ones, had been unable to attend or where reorganisations or postings have resulted in new appointments. More important there was a strong feeling that some form of hands-on continuation training, based on real life scenarios, would be beneficial to all Agencies.

In the intervening years since the 2003 Workshop many new personnel will have recently arrived in post in parts of the country where flying displays or associated activities are planned, particularly new flying events. They will be encouraged to attend the 2009 Workshop in March.

Workshop for European Display Directors
The Association will be hosting the eighth in our series of Workshops for European Display Directors from 26th.and 28th.March 2008.
This again will be held at the Cranfield Management Development Centre whose facilities for such an event are second to none (and the food is excellent !!)
We are expecting delegates from Belgium, Denmark,The Netherlands and Switzerland as well as new Display Directors from the largest Royal Air Force events. UK civil Display Directors have attended in the past as well as from SBAC and the Army Air Corps
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The programme for the Workshop is structured to give those appointed to be Display Directors or Airshow co-ordinators a thorough background to their duties and from which they can build the ‘live side’ organisation of their event. Practical work includes the planning of an actual flying display programme and the content of the important Aircrew Briefing.

Individual Training

Training can be arranged for individuals or groups in whatever facets of Airshow planning, management and execution that they may require. ADAE has within its membership Organisers with considerable expertise and can also provide experienced Display Directors acceptable to the Civil Aviation Authority to organise your event and train your staff to undertake these duties at future events. It can also recommend suitably experienced persons to act as Members of the Flying Control Committees, essential for all but the smallest events.