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
Aerial Fire Fighting
Conference & Exhibition
Crowne Plaza Hotel
Anaheim, California, USA
19 & 20th February 2009