About the ALTA Aviation Safety, Flight Ops and Training Summit 2026

The ALTA Aviation Safety, Flight Ops and Training Summit is the region’s leading platform for reflection, collaboration, and the development of practical solutions in aviation safety and operations. The 2026 edition in Mendoza brings together an international community of professionals to address the challenges and opportunities shaping the future of aviation across Latin America and the Caribbean.

The Summit is known for its high-quality programme of speakers drawn from major operators, manufacturers, regulators, and international bodies, alongside focused sessions on flight operations and crew training. For safety, operations, and training leaders across the region, it is one of the most important events in the annual calendar.

Find out more and register at https://www.alta.aero/safety/2026.

Key Themes at ALTA Aviation Safety, Flight Ops and Training Summit 2026

The 2026 programme addresses the evolving priorities of aviation operators across Latin America and the Caribbean, with sessions spanning:

• Safety Management Systems and safety culture development
• Flight Data Monitoring and data-driven risk mitigation
• Crew training, human factors, and competency development
• Crisis management and emergency response
• Regulatory compliance and operational standards

Meet TrustFlight at ALTA Aviation Safety, Flight Ops and Training Summit 2026

TrustFlight is aviation’s safety intelligence platform. We’ll be in Mendoza to connect with airlines, operators, and training organisations across Latin America and the Caribbean who are managing the same challenge facing operators worldwide: safety, compliance, security, and emergency response handled through a patchwork of disconnected tools and providers. Those disconnections are not just inefficient. They are where risk accumulates.

At the Summit, our team will be available to discuss our full platform. Centrik 5 is our established safety, quality, and risk management system, trusted by 200,000+ aviation professionals across 100+ countries, and the proven foundation for SMS, QMS, audit management, and regulatory compliance. Smart Suite is our AI-powered, agent-first platform, with AI agents that monitor 120+ global regulatory frameworks, classify risks, and surface trends in real time. And our Tech Log provides a compliant digital source of truth for aircraft maintenance and operations, with 30+ integrations and automated maintenance workflows.

Behind the technology, TrustFlight integrates four capability pillars into a single connected platform: our technology products, specialist training and consulting through Baines Simmons, security assurance through Redline, and emergency preparedness and response through Kenyon International. Trusted by 1,600+ organisations across 120 countries, we don’t just deliver software. We deliver the operational intelligence and expertise to act on it.

Our very own Thomas Lemaire and Faye Jones will be representing TrustFlight at the event. To arrange a meeting in Mendoza, get in touch with our team ahead of the Summit at sales@trustflight.com.

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Across the UK and beyond, regulators and operators still manage safety oversight through a patchwork of disconnected systems, manual workflows, and shadow processes. Operators prepare for audits in one system. Inspectors conduct them using another. Findings get raised, tracked, and resolved across email chains, spreadsheets, and document management tools that were never designed to talk to each other.

The result is not a lack of safety commitment. It is a structural problem: the gaps between disconnected systems are exactly where risk accumulates.

What leading UK operators already know

The most progressive aviation organisations in the UK have already addressed this challenge on their side of the oversight equation.

Earlier this year, Bristow Group – one of the world’s largest helicopter operators – selected TrustFlight’s Centrik 5 platform to modernise global safety reporting, risk oversight, and compliance across their entire operation. But Bristow is one example in a much larger pattern.

Today, TrustFlight’s safety and compliance platform is trusted by major UK airlines, regional carriers, business aviation operators, leading airports – including some of London’s busiest gateways – the UK’s national air traffic service provider, helicopter operators, aerospace manufacturers, and MRO organisations. Across 1,600 organisations in 120 countries, the platform manages the full lifecycle of safety and compliance: audit planning and execution, finding management and resolution, competency tracking, document control, supplier oversight, and risk-based reporting.

What connects these organisations is not just their choice of technology. It is a shared recognition that safety management cannot be effective when it operates in silos. The audit lifecycle – from planning through execution, finding resolution, and trend analysis – only delivers real safety intelligence when it runs on a connected, structured foundation.

The other side of the table

Here is what makes this particularly relevant for the future of aviation oversight: the workflows that regulators need are not fundamentally different from the ones operators already use.

An inspector planning a surveillance audit needs scheduling tools, resource management, and visibility of an entity’s compliance history. They need structured checklists mapped to regulations. They need to raise findings, track corrective actions, manage deadlines and extensions, and escalate where necessary. They need offline capability for on-site work. They need dashboards that surface risk trends and performance data across their entire portfolio.

These are not hypothetical requirements. They are the exact capabilities that operators already depend on, every day, to manage their own internal safety and quality management systems.

The opportunity is significant: when both sides of the oversight relationship work from the same digital language – the same structured data models, the same audit logic, the same approach to findings and compliance tracking – the entire system becomes more effective. Audit preparation improves because both parties understand the framework. Finding resolution accelerates because responses flow through structured workflows rather than email. Trend analysis becomes meaningful because data is consistent, connected, and comparable across entities and approval types.

From compliance burden to safety intelligence

The aviation industry is moving beyond tick-box compliance. Risk-based oversight, data-driven decision-making, and predictive analytics are no longer aspirational concepts – they are operational necessities.

But these capabilities depend entirely on the quality and structure of the data beneath them. You cannot run trend analysis across approval types if every audit lives in a different format. You cannot benchmark entity performance if findings are categorised inconsistently. You cannot predict risk areas if historical data sits in archived spreadsheets that no one can search.

This is why the foundation matters. Years of building safety management technology for aviation – across operators, airports, air traffic service providers, manufacturers, training organisations, and MROs – has taught us that intelligence is not a feature you bolt on. It is the outcome of getting the data model, the workflows, and the collaboration framework right from the start.

And when you combine that technology foundation with specialist training, consulting, and expertise – with people who have spent decades embedded in aviation safety, compliance, and regulatory frameworks – you move from software to genuine operational intelligence.

What the future looks like

The next generation of aviation safety oversight will not be defined by which system an inspector uses or which platform an operator logs into. It will be defined by how seamlessly those systems connect.

The organisations that have already made this transition – on the operator side – are seeing measurable results: faster audit cycles, more consistent finding management, better visibility of compliance status, and leadership teams that can make decisions based on real-time data rather than quarterly reports.

The same benefits are available on the regulatory side. The technology exists. The data models exist. The operational proof points exist, at scale, across every category of CAA-regulated organisation.

Aviation’s safety record was built on trust: trust in data, trust in people, trust in systems. The next chapter will be built on ensuring that trust is connected – across every organisation with a role to play in keeping aviation safe.

TrustFlight is the Aerospace Safety Intelligence Platform trusted by 1,600+ organisations across 120 countries. Our integrated platform combines safety and compliance technology, world-class training and consulting through Baines Simmons, specialist security assurance through Redline, and emergency management and response through Kenyon International – delivering operational intelligence for the aviation industry.

Learn more at trustflight.com

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After an extensive evaluation across airworthiness, operations and cybersecurity requirements, the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has granted a letter of ‘No Technical Objection’ (NTO) for the TrustFlight Electronic Tech Log.

The TrustFlight system is the only dedicated Electronic Tech Log to have been endorsed by EASA. With the NTO, operators within Europe will be able to quickly transition to paperless operations including Electronic Signatures, Digital MEL deferrals and Electronic Certificates of Release to Service. Previously, the nominated Surveyor for each European operator would’ve been required to complete a full audit of the system for compliance. Now, each Surveyor can use the EASA recommendation to contribute to their audit and acceptance process.

In addition to the EASA NTO, we provide a full suite of templates and documentation including example procedures, compliance matrices and risk assessments to make onboarding and implementation as easy as possible. Combined with our experienced team and comprehensive integrations with major maintenance tracking systems, we have made moving your fleet to fully digital records quicker and easier than ever before!

Please contact our sales team at sales@trustflight.com to find out more about how our Electronic Tech Log can help your operation boost safety and efficiency.

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The Reg App module allows organisations to submit applications – for example AOC applications, aircraft registrations, or flight crew and engineer license applications – via a weblink, directly into the authority and its Centrik system. This ultra-efficient approach removes a vast amount of duplication, creating next stage workflows while offering total transparency to all parties involved.

Charles Pace, Director General for Civil Aviation at Transport Malta CAD, says: “Centrik has transformed our operation – we have reduced the need for emails, unnecessary phone calls and convoluted paper chains, making everything we do so much more efficient. It is like having five additional inspectors for the price of one.

“Now, the Reg App module has added another level of functionality, streamlining our processes even further – it’s been a game changer, and we are yet to realise its full potential!”

In addition to the new Reg App functionality, Centrik’s fully-integrated, modular design has been providing Transport Malta CAD with total operational oversight. Using the system’s intuitive interface, staff can quickly and easily schedule audits, issue and action findings, conduct root cause analysis, initiate and track workflows, complete risk registers, safety reports, as well as process MORs from any affiliated operator – all within the system, from any connected device.

When Transport Malta CAD was itself audited by EASA, its use of Centrik was cited as a major strength, owing to the system’s ability to evidence all requested information quickly and effectively. By providing EASA with access to its Centrik system, the time and manpower required to conduct the audit can be cut in half.

From here, Transport Malta CAD can use Centrik to develop operational heatmaps to provide an instant, visual guide of performance, allowing the team to formulate KPIs and effectively action improvements in procedures and processes.

“Centrik provides us with complete continuity and total transparency across all aspects of our operation – both for processes within the authority and for those businesses reporting into us. The sheer level of control it provides, with instant accessibility to such a wealth of actionable information, has delivered only positive changes to our operation,” concludes Pace.

Transport Malta CAD currently has around 100 Centrik users internally, with every member of staff having their own personal dashboard. As the regulator for the region, it has also granted limited access to more than 40 AOCs, every Part-145 and Part-147 organisation and a myriad of external businesses that report into it.

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Notes to editor: Centrik provides complete operational management systems for the aviation, military, maritime and banking sectors, and helps ensure regulatory compliance. Born from the civil aviation sector, Centrik currently has more than 46,000 users working in some of the most highly regulated and safety critical industries in the world.

For further press information please email gary.baker@garnettkeeler.com at Garnett Keeler or call 020 8647 4467.

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During a rigorous selection process for a powerful, user-friendly regulatory system to optimise its safety oversight procedures, the SCAA selected Centrik over four competing systems from across the globe, with the SCAA paying particular attention to functionality, available modules, user-friendliness and cost when making its decision.

Graham Robb, Head of Flight Operations at the SCAA, says: “For each provider we compared the benefits, deliverables and costs involved to enhance and optimise our safety oversight procedures. Centrik was the clear winner across the board, and since implementation it has completely changed our operation.”

Through Centrik, the SCAA’s Safety Regulation Department has been able to move away from its previous hardcopy, paper-based approach to regulatory oversight to a more intuitive, cloud-based system, significantly streamlining a number of processes – particularly operator audits.

“Previously it could take a week to plan, carry out and document the findings of any audits we had to conduct. Now, thanks to Centrik, the entire process can be completed in a day,” continues Robb.

“We can now plan an audit in minutes, giving the operators instant access to that plan through Centrik. Then, as the system is always ‘live’ the findings can be updated in real time from our tablets during the audit itself, removing the need to write reports from hand-written notes. With limited resources available, Centrik has played a central role in optimising the way that the SCAA performs regulatory oversight.”

As the SCAA completes each audit, Centrik builds an increasingly comprehensive overview of all findings, creating a database that can quickly and easily demonstrate how the SCAA is meeting all regulatory compliance requirements for the State Safety Programme.

Centrik’s modular design also allows the SCAA to monitor its Airworthiness, Flight Operations, Air Navigation Standards, Aerodromes and Air Accident Investigation departments. The system’s user-friendly, intuitive interface has meant staff have been able to quickly adapt and take advantage of its powerful management solutions.

“It’s very user-friendly, everyone who uses the system can instantly see what’s going on. All the information we need is at our finger tips, giving us the ability to see all past, current and future tasks in an instant – across every part of our operation,” Robb concludes.

The development of civil aviation in the Seychelles began in 1972 with the opening of Seychelles International Airport. With passenger numbers continuing to rise the SCAA was established in 2005 to provide for the services, facilities and regulation of all civil aviation activities in the country.

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The nine Territories under ASSI’s remit each require a different level of support, from producing the legal framework, through to providing assessments and safety/security regulatory oversight for a territory’s entire civil aviation operation.

Mark Baker, Safety Development Manager at Air Safety Support International, says: “Unlike other National Aviation Authorities, we don’t just regulate one location – we oversee nine very distinct Territories, each with a vastly different dynamic and level of operations. It’s an incredibly complicated task, so we needed an intuitive system that was powerful enough to manage and maintain all regulatory processes across each of the Territories, but intuitive enough that everyone could use it.

“Whilst researching guidance on quality management systems used by UK-based service providers, Centrik was a name we kept hearing. As soon as we saw it in action, we instantly realised that it would completely change the way we worked, both here in the UK and at each of the Territories across the globe.”

Centrik’s fully integrated modular design allows ASSI to manage every aspect of its operation through a centralised hub, which can be securely and easily accessed remotely from anywhere in the world. This allows each of the nine Territories under ASSI’s oversight to effectively manage its processes and procedures, as well as file audits, surveys, checklists, safety reports and findings at the click of a button – with all data updated in real time.

“Every territory is benefiting from Centrik’s open-access, making processes and reports easier to file, monitor and log,” continues Baker. “We’ve also been able to tailor each of Centrik’s modules to suit our specific needs, which have made a number of our day-to-day operational processes more efficient – from managing our internal meetings and their subsequent actions, through to instantly pulling together comprehensive reports and audit information for analysis to aid performance-based oversight, a process that used to take an entire morning.”

ASSI’s remit is to help maintain a cohesive and robust aviation regulatory system in each of the UK’s Overseas Territories.

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Rob Erskine, Head of International Operations, CAAi, says: “The work we are doing with this NAA has been significantly enhanced with the use of Centrik; helping to effectively manage complex processes and data, including audit and oversight findings.”

CAAi has found the system powerful and intuitive, with users in a variety of roles having remote access, who are able to file findings and audit processes quickly and easily.

Matthew Margesson, Head of International Development, CAAi, says: “Centrik makes operational management more efficient because it brings relevant programme information and processes into one central location. It gives us a single source of truth, with a full audit trail. It’s well-considered and designed, which lets us address high-stake requirements securely and easily.”

Centrik provides complete operational management for aviation-related businesses and authorities alike. Its highly configurable nature allows operators to effectively evidence processes, while NAAs can use the system to manage all elements of their jurisdiction.

In particular, the system is very effective for NAAs and Operators that take a forward-thinking approach to the centralisation of process and data, underpinning effective risk-based decision making. This is thanks to Centrik’s ability to easily demonstrate compliance and share information according to operator requirements.

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