This article discusses civil aviation security, which is understood as a combination of human and material activities and resources to safeguard international civil aviation against acts of unlawful interference. This article presents protection measures applied in the security system of civil airports. Parts of the article focuses on both theoretical and practical solutions concerning the airport security system. The systemic approach observes aviation security as a set of elements and relationships that occur between them in accordance with established principles, through the prism of the aim. The aim of aviation security is to prevent acts of unlawful interference (people, objects, hazardous materials threatening the safety of aviation and the aviation infrastructure). The authors of the article have identified the concept of airport security system and characterised the civil airport as a specific object. This article presents the procedural and technical aspects of the functioning of the civil security airport system.

The aim of this article is to discuss issues related to threats to civil aviation. The authors describe a relatively fresh subject which has been neglected so far due to the lack of knowledge and low popularity of this type of threat. The work identifies and characterises new threats to civil aviation. In order to achieve this aim, the article contains defined possibilities of using anti-aircraft mines and methods of using anti-aircraft rocket sets against civil aircraft in the operational area of the airport. The threats resulting from the use of unmanned aerial systems in the operational area of the airport are described together with the use of the cyberspace in a criminal manner in relation to civil aviation.

AbstractUnmanned aerial systems (UAS) are treated as an opportunity, a challenge and a threat to airports, but the author decided to focus on the last aspect, in particular on countering UAS in operational area of airports. Due to the above, this article aims to address the characteristics of systems used to counteract and combat (neutralize) UAV in the airport’s operational area. There are used the following research methods: analysis, synthesis, inference, comparison, abstracting and expert interview. To achieve the assumed aim, the author performed two research tasks: presentation of the importance of unmanned aerial systems as well as identification and discussion of the selected threats to airports resulting from the use of unmanned aerial systems. The presented material shows that countering unmanned aerial systems is a complex issue which requires the use of a com-bination of different solutions.

The article deals with problems related to the application of simulators in training and describes the current role of simulators in preparing new specialized personnel in many industries. The author presents the possibilities of using simulators in the training for pilots, motor vehicle drivers, and train drivers. He points out to the benefits of using modern simulation systems.

The article was written on basis of Flight safety brochures published by the Polish Air Force Academy from 1975 to 1998. The first part is dedicated for actual training process of the Polish military pilots. The second component focuses on the main causes of the occurrence of aircraft accidents in units of the Polish Air Force Academy in concerned period of time. The further part of the article is dedicated to analysis of aircraft accidents occurred in military aviation training units in years 1970-1994.