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.

This month, we look back in aviation history to 1956 and hear from a legend. Then I continue my discussion with Lt Gen C.R. Davis, gaining more insights into his career and experiences in flight test.

Listen Now: https://flighttestsafety.org/ftsc-news/flight-test-safety-podcast-channel

Bio of Lt Gen Charles R. Davis, USAF (Ret): https://flighttestsafety.org/images/LTGEN_Davis_USAF_Ret_Bio.pdf

Flight Test Safety Fact Newsletter: https://flighttestsafety.org/ftsc-news/newsletter  

Available on iTunes, Spotify, Podbean, Pocket Casts, and Amazon Music: FTSCChannel

This Podcast is sponsored by Time2climb Training and Consulting

NEW Episode of "On Condition"

In this episode I will tell you about a contest to name the Flight Test Safety Committee's new AI search tool and we will hear from my guest former Navy test pilot Eric "Pinto" Mitchell who talks about weapons testing and high dynamic flying.

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Eric Mitchell's bio

You can view the video version of this podcast HERE

Send your AI tool name ideas to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

Registration for the North American Flight Test Safety Workshop on 5-6 May in Fort Worth, TX will close at 12pm CDT on 28 April.
More details on this workshop are available HERE

Available on iTunes, Spotify, Podbean, Pocket Casts, and Amazon Music: FTSCChannel

This Podcast is sponsored by Time2climb Training and Consulting

New! Flight Test Safety Fact Newsletter

“Houston, we have a problem!” To continue a thread from last month’s inspirational Apollo observations, I feel it’s necessary to announce that many of our young professionals don’t know the iconic movie quote or the story of Apollo 13. That problem will have to wait until a future month, because this month features another cultural artifact, a reader submitted a story inspired by one of the great early pilot authors. 

Other cultural references include famous robots (AI) from the past.

If I had room, I would have introduced fine art as well, but since I don’t, let me recommend The Empty Desk at the SFTE-EC website (the old one).

Please write us back to let us know you read this issue, shared it, or wanted to reply with a suggestion.

Sincerely,

Mark Jones Jr.

Editor

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For added security and convenience, you can download the pdf here.