With the pace of change of the world around us, consideration will be given to how we remain the relevant and accessible home for aviation, aerospace and space professionals of the future. During the course of 2023, the Relevance Project will be seeking views from members on what we will have to provide, and where so that we will be relevant to our current members, and potential members of the future. 

Following the Governance Review and consultations with Council, committee members and the membership last year, in 2023 we hope to have the Governance Review By-Law changes approved by the Privy Council (as required by our Royal Charter) and by the membership at a Special General Meeting. More detail on the proposed changes can be found here.

Outreach programmes will continue to develop with Phase 2 of the Falcon 2 flight simulator programme getting underway from March 2023 for the 'Big Build' and the Education & Skills Team will support National Apprenticeship Week 2023 (March), the Big Bang (June), RIAT (July) among many other industry outreach activities.

In 2023, we hope to increase the number of Standards we can offer End Point Assessment for, this includes the Level 7 Systems Engineer Standard.

As The Aeronautical Journal has become a Transformative Journal, which means it has committed to transition to open research, and meet the transformative journals requirements of Plan S, it should allow us to attract research papers from a broader range of organisations, researchers and authors committed to the principle of open access.

Technical and policy papers on wellbeing in the industry, contrail management, sustainability and turbulence in relation to vertical flight are expected to be published to influence key stakeholders across government, operators and regulators.

Engagement with incoming UK government ministers and Shadow Secretaries of State, civil service, and key international partners will be a focus for the policy and public affairs activity in 2023.