Upcoming Workshops

2026 Flight Test Safety Workshop
5-6 May 2026
Fort Worth, TX

The Flight Test Safety Committee, a joint committee of SFTE, AIAA, and SETP, is pleased to announce that the North American Flight Test Safety Workshop will be held 5-6 May 2026 in Fort Worth, Texas. This year's Workshop Chair is Tom Currie, Bell.

A Tutorial will be held on Tuesday 5 May, followed by a Technical Tour of Bell Flight Research Center. Technical presentations will be held on Wednesday 6 May followed by an Award Dinner where the Dave Houle Best Paper Award, Tony LeVier Flight Test Safety Award and Hugh Dryden Flight Test Safety Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented.

NOTE: Pre-registration is required, as we cannot guarantee at-the-door registrations will be available. THE LAST DAY TO REGISTER IS 28 APRIL 2026 at 12pm CDT!

This workshop is open to the public. You do not need to be an SETP, SFTE, or AIAA member to attend! Feel free to distribute the workshop registration info amongst your peers.

Click HERE to Register!

Hotel Reservation Information:

DoubleTree by Hilton Fort Worth South Hotel & Conference Center

100 Altamesa Blvd E, Fort Worth, Texas, 76134, USA

A limited block of rooms is reserved at the group rate of $119.00 per night. Please click HERE to book your room.

Please reserve your room by Friday, 10 April 2026 in order to guarantee these rates.

Why Is It Important to Stay at the Conference Hotel? Click Here for More Information!

2026 Flight Test Safety Workshop
5-6 May 2026
Fort Worth, TX

Hotel Reservation Information

DoubleTree by Hilton Fort Worth South Hotel & Conference Center

100 Altamesa Blvd E, Fort Worth, Texas, 76134, USA

A limited block of rooms is reserved at the group rate of $119.00 per night. Please click HERE to book your room.

Please reserve your room by Friday, 10 April 2026 in order to guarantee these rates.

More details on the Workshop will be available soon!

Preliminary Schedule:

Tuesday 5 May - Tutorial

Wednesday 6 May - Technical Presentations & Award Dinner

Why Is It Important To Stay At The Conference Hotel?

The official conference hotel is the center of conference activities. It's a quick trip to get to the technical sessions, it provides opportunities for networking with conference attendees, and it makes it easy to return to your room. That's obvious. But there are other reasons that you need to consider before you look at another hotel.

In return for the use of the hotel's meeting facilities, the conference guarantees the hotel that a certain percentage of attendees will stay in that hotel. The hotel discounts the rate for conference attendees from their normal charges.

If the conference does not meet the contracted sleeping room commitment, it must still pay the hotel for these rooms. Unfilled rooms can cost the conference thousands of dollars, hurting both the current conference and the next conference's ability to negotiate a beneficial hotel contract. In both cases the registration fee is then under pressure to increase unreasonably.

What if we don't contract for sleeping rooms? Attendees will pay more for their hotel rooms and the conference will incur additional expenses for meeting room rental fees, which would increase the cost of registration.

Additionally, the hotel will not hold a block of rooms for attendees, which may leave some people far from the conference venue.