Title:
Personal Minimums; Your Key to a Safe Flight!
Topic:
Personal Minimums; Do You Have Them?
Brief Description:
During your preflight preparation do you consider your personal minimums for the upcoming flight? The regulations and AIM provide mandates and guidance; but can’t cover all situations at all pilot experience levels. This safety seminar will help you establish a set of personal minimums to help guide you to a good go/no-go decision. Don't miss this opportunity to be a SAFER PILOT!
Location of Seminar:
Sky Bright Aviation
65 Aviation Drive
Airport Terminal Building
Gilford, NH 03249
Directions to Venue:
From Laconia take Rte 11 east to 4-way traffic light (jct Rte 11 and Rte 11C--look for red & white tower just prior to Intersection). Turn left, then 1st right onto Aviation Drive. Entrance to airport ahead on right.
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Seating:
50
seats at the facility,
19
remaining for online registration.
Registration Information:
Seminar has passed.
Sponsoring Division:
FAASTeam, Portland FSDO
Additional Event Information & Acknowledgement of Industry Sponsor(s):
All of us can be pressured into taking risks by our circumstances. What causes you to take risks that you might not otherwise take? When you are in a long line of cars at a busy intersection, how long does the gap in traffic need to be before you will risk turning left across and into the traffic? Does the risk gap get shorter as you wait longer? If the driver behind you is honking? If you are in a hurry to catch a plane ? If you have impatient passengers? We take risks in flight for many very legitimate reasons (e.g., transportation, convenience, economics). Sometimes, we make risky choices based on less legitimate reasons as well. After a close call, many people rationalize, “I had no choice, I had to do it.” Safety in our aviation system depends, to a great extent, upon the amount of control we exercise over our choices to take risks.
Personal minimums are defined as an individualized set of decision criteria (standards) to which the pilot is committed. Each pilot manifests a unique and variable set of skills and attitudes. Notwithstanding the well-recognized difficulties inherent in self-assessment, and in the absence of any other outside guidance, the individual pilot is the best judge of the risks involved in the contemplated flight.
In this seminar, participants will develop the knowledge necessary to move into risk identification. In addition, they should be motivated to make risk assessment a priority for their own flying. Finally, they should have developed a level of comfort in sharing ideas with others which will enable them to make informed go-no go decisions.
Sponsored by Sky Bright Aviation.
AEA-S-1-03 1377
Equal Access Information:
The FAA Safety Team (FAASTeam) is committed to providing equal access to this meeting/event for all participants. If you need alternative formats or services because of a disability, please communicate your request as soon as possible with the person in the “Contact Information” area of the meeting/event notice. Note that two weeks is usually required to arrange services.
Credit Applicability:
1 Credit for Basic Knowledge Topic 3
FAASTeam Project Information:
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