The Pre-Season Symposium is held in the spring.
The aim of the symposium is to provide:
- regulatory feedback
- safety awareness
- human factors training
- identification of lessons learnt and to disseminate best practice to display pilots, event organisers and Flying Display Directors (FDDs).
They also give the Flying Display community an opportunity to share feedback with regulators, in order to improve the Flying Display environment as a whole.
DS26 Symposium
The 2026 Pre-Display Season Symposium is open to all in the Flying Display community, and for DS26 it is intended to be held on 24/25 March 2026 at the Defence Academy Shrivenham.
Further details and the booking form will be released in due course.
DS25 Symposia
11 November 2025 – DAE Seminar (DAEs only), to be held at Cambourne (Duxford).
The 2025 Pre-Display Season Symposium was held at the Defence Academy Shrivenham on 18/19 March 2025, the slides from which can be accessed here: Flying Display Pre-Season Symposium 2025 – Presentation Slides
DS24 Symposia
DS24 Post-season symposium
13 November 2024 – DAE Seminar (DAEs only), to be held at Cambourne (Duxford).
14 November 2024 – 2024 Post- Display Season Symposium, to be held at IWM Duxford.
Flying Display Post-Season Symposium 2024 - Presentation Slides
DS24 Pre-season symposium
The 2024 Pre-Display Season Symposium was held at the Defence Academy Shrivenham on 19/20 March 2024, the slides from which can be accessed below:
Flying Display Pre-Season Symposium 2024 - Presentation Slides
DS23 Symposia
DS23 Pre-season symposium
The 2023 Pre-Season Display Symposium was held at the Defence Academy Shrivenham on 28-29 March 2023, the slides from which can be accessed below:
Flying Display Pre-Season Symposium 2023 – Presentation Slides
DS23 Post-season symposium
The 2023 Post-Season Display Symposium was held at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford on 15 November 2023, the slides from which can be accessed below:
Flying Display Post-Season Symposium 2023 - Presentation Slides
DS22 Symposia
DS22 Pre-season symposium
The 2022 Pre-Season Display Symposium was held at the Defence Academy Shrivenham on the 23 March 2022 the slides from which can be accessed below:
Flying Display Pre-display Season Symposium Presentations 2022
DS22 Post-season symposium
The 2022 Post-Season Display Symposium was held at the Defence Academy Shrivenham on the 16 November 2022 the slides from which can be accessed below:
Flying Display Post Display Season 22 Symposium - Presentation Slides