Day 2 – 20th February 2009 - Morning

 

0800 – 0900 Networking Breakfast

 

0900 – 0910 Chairmans’  Introduction

 

0910 – 0930 Military Aerial Firefighting Operations – is it a dependable asset?

General Victor E. Renuart Jr., Commander, 302nd Air Expeditionary Group, US Northern Command, USAF, USA

 

 0930 – 1000 Global Aerial Operations

Nikolai Kovalev, Director General, Avialesookhrana, Russia

 

1000 – 1030 Aerial Operations -

Dr Humberto Candeias Cavalcanti, Director, Forest Institute of Minas Gerais State, Brazil*  

 

1030 – 1100 Aerial Operations – TBC

1100 – 1130 Refreshments 

 

1130 – 1200  CL-415 Aircraft - Bombardier

 

1200 – 1230 Aerial Operations in Italy

Lt General Luciano Massetti, Dept of Civil Protection, Ministry of Interior, Italy

 

1230 – 1300 Aerial firefighting in Japan

Mr Kazuya Uzeu, Director R&D Center of Fire & Environmental Safety, University of Kitakyshu, Japan

1300 – 1400 Lunch – Sponsored