Two-day bi-annual Senior Maintenance Staff Officers’ Conference from 12 -13 Sep 2011

A two-day bi-annual Senior Maintenance Staff Officers’ Conference from 12 -13 Sep 2011 was inaugurated by the Chief of Air Staff at Air Headquarter yesterday. Delivering Inaugural address by, Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal NAK Browne highlighted the operational imperatives and Maintenance challenges of the IAF, due to wide spectrum of weapon systems and associated infrastructure. He urged SMSOs to be pro-active and address the issues in right earnest. He emphasized the core values of IAF and vision of “People First Mission Always”. He deliberated on the issues of Modernisation, challenges to security and ethos of IAF. He reiterated the importance of human element and working as a team to gain the synergy in modern times

Air Officer-in-Charge Maintenance (AOM) Air Marshal J Neri carried out a brief overview of various fleets and covered actions initiated by Air HQs to enhance maintainability for safe operations.

The two-day Conference is meant to dwell over complex maintenance issues in IAF due to different environmental conditions, legacy systems with obsolescence and vintage related problems, state-of-the-art systems and requirement of infrastructure etc.

Representatives from HAL and BEL would interact and present their perspective on Maintenance of equipment supplied by them.

Director General (Aircraft) Air Marshal RK Vashisht, Air Marshal P Kanakraj and other high officials of Air HQs participated in the discussions.