Research
Independent studies on the risks particular to island operations, from seaplane to short runway operations in a hot, humid, and saline environment.
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Maldives Aerospace and Aeronautical Safety Institute
The Maldives' independent home for aerospace knowledge, where safety is the starting point for progress.
About
Why MAASI exists
A non-governmental, non-profit learned society for aviation, aeronautics and aerospace, built for the Maldives.
Vision
A Maldives that leads small island states in safe, sovereign and scientifically grounded aviation and aerospace.
Mission
To advance aviation, aeronautics and aerospace in the Maldives through independent research, publication, education and professional exchange, with safety as our first principle.
Few countries depend on aviation the way the Maldives does. Seaplanes land on lagoons, short runways serve single islands, and an international gateway carries the economy. Yet there has been no national learned society for the people who fly, maintain, regulate, design and study that system.
MAASI fills that gap. It brings independent research, peer-reviewed publication, professional standards and public discussion to the whole aerospace field, with safety as the organising principle.
Our work
What the Institute does
Publication
Technical papers, safety studies, policy briefs and public articles, all passed through editorial and peer review.
Conferences and talks
An annual safety symposium, a lecture series, and workshops that bring international expertise to the Maldives.
Talent
Mentorship, scholarships and competitions for students, cadets, graduate engineers, pilots, cabin crew, dispatchers, aircraft maintenance engineers, air traffic controllers, technicians and young professionals.
Policy input
Evidence-based advice on regulation and national planning, given independently of any operator or authority.
History
Recording and preserving the history of aviation in the Maldives through documents, photographs and oral histories.
Technical Groups
Where members do the work
Members join one or more Technical Groups. Each produces papers, events and positions in its field. More groups will open as the membership grows.
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Flight Operations and Human Factors
How crews, procedures and fatigue shape safety in a network of lagoons and island strips.
Flow lab
See how a wing makes lift
Change the angle of attack, airspeed and altitude, and watch the air respond. Colour shows pressure: violet and cyan where the air speeds up and pressure falls, rose and amber where it slows and pressure rises. That pressure difference is lift.
Attached flow
- CL
- 0.00
- CD
- 0.000
- L/D
- 0.0
- Lift
- 0 kN
- Drag
- 0 kN
- Air density ρ
- 0.000
Navier–Stokes momentum equation
ρ(∂u/∂t + u·∇u) = −∇p + μ∇²u + ρg
∇·u = 0
Momentum and mass balance for all parcels of air around the wing.
Lift
L = ½ ρ V² S CL
Drag
D = ½ ρ V² S CD
The streamlines are the inviscid limit of the Navier–Stokes equations, solved for a Joukowski wing section with the Kutta condition. Lift and drag coefficients come from a simplified finite-wing model (wing area 61 m², aspect ratio 12), and stall above about 15° is modelled empirically. Atmosphere is ISA.
The journal
Journal of Aerospace and Aeronautical Safety
JAAS is the official, peer-reviewed journal of MAASI. Its editorial decisions on academic merit are independent of the Institute's Council.
Original research and safety studies
Technical notes from operations and engineering
Policy and regulatory analysis
Proceedings of the annual MAASI symposium
The call for papers for the first volume will be announced soon. Published papers are read in the MAASI Library.
The MAASI Library
Read, search and study
JAAS papers, articles, books, photographs, video and recorded talks on aerospace and aviation safety in the Maldives, read online in a secure reader. Search by title, author, subject or Technical Group.
Open
Free to everyone
Open-access papers, opinion pieces and public notices. No account needed.
Members
Everything else
An active membership opens every Members item, including the full JAAS archive. Institutions get named seats.
Single items
Not a member?
Most items can also be bought on their own. Each shows its own price and how long it stays open for your email address, set by its author and confirmed by a Chief Editor.
- Buy from the item page
- Pay by bank transfer
- We open it for your email
Pages and pictures carry the reader's account as a watermark, files are never public, and nothing is downloadable. Payment is by bank transfer for now; card payments come later.
Membership
Find your grade
Membership is open to anyone who supports the Institute's objects. Grades recognise experience and contribution, and members use their grade in full, for example "Fellow of MAASI".
Grade
Member
Founding cohort
Everyone admitted in the Institute's first twelve months carries the title Founding Member or Founding Fellow for life.
How to join
- Send your request with the form below. You get a reference number by email.
- We reply within two working days with the amount and the Institute's bank details.
- Transfer in MVR or USD, quoting your reference, then sign in and upload the slip, or reply with it attached.
- We check the payment and switch on your membership.
Request received
Our principles
Independent by design, so the evidence can speak for itself.
Independence
No operator, airport, manufacturer, regulator or government body directs our work.
Evidence
Positions follow the data and the review process, never the other way round.
Just culture
Safety data is de-identified. We study systems, not individuals to blame.
Integrity
Every editor, officer and Council member declares their interests and steps back when conflicted.
Open knowledge
Research is published so that the whole industry can learn from it.
Service
Our work is for the Maldives and the people who travel through its skies.
What MAASI does not do. The Institute does not investigate accidents, issue certificates or approvals, or speak for any operator or authority. It researches, publishes and convenes.
Contact
Get in touch
For membership, partnerships, speaking invitations or the journal, write to us.
General enquiries
info@maas-institute.org
Membership
membership@maas-institute.org