Event Details and Registration

The Treasure Coast FAASTeam is proud to host a two-hour seminar presented by Mr. Diego Alfonso, Sr. 

The first topic to discuss will be “Aviation Gray Areas and Misconceptions”.  Why is this important? Remember what you don’t know may hurt you, but “what you think you know, and you don’t may hurt you even more.  We will talk about how misconceptions are born, why they abound so much; learn about the two most important questions to ask in our flying careers and how to recognize a misconception and or gray area. Come join us and bring your questions on anything that you are not clear about.

The second topic of discussion is “Operations at Towered and Non-Towered Airports”. This presentation is based on the new AC-60-66B that was issued in March 2018. It calls attention to regulatory requirements, recommended operations, and communications procedures for operating at an airport without a control tower or an airport with a control tower that operates only part time. It shows the new recommended traffic patterns procedures, communications phraseology, and operational procedures for use by aircraft. Operations at controlled airports will be addressed also.

The Orlando FSDO-15, along with your Treasure Coast FAASTeam, encourages all aviation minded people to attend our every third Thursday of the month safety seminars.  It doesn’t matter the certificate or rating you hold, if you know someone with an interest in aviation, whether it’s  our mechanic, another pilot, your right seat buddy or somebody with an interest in aviation safety, please bring that friend with you to one of our next seminars.

The meeting will be held in the FlightSafety Academy maintenance hangar located just west of the Vero Beach Regional Airport Main Terminal Bldg.  Enter through the west side of the hangar, the meeting is in Classroom M.  There is plenty of parking for both cars and aircraft.  For those of you flying in, park by the C.J. Cannon's restaurant at main terminal and walk west 100 yards to the FlightSafety Academy maintenance hangar.

Diego Alfonso is a dynamic and experienced speaker!  He is a former Airline Pilot, Part 135 Chief Pilot, Corporate Pilot, Part 141 Chief Flight Instructor and more recently a retired FAA Aviation Safety Inspector and is currently a Designated Pilot Examiner out of the Orlando FSDO. Mr. Alfonso is a flight instructor with over 6,000 check rides conducted, the founder of Flying Colors Training Solutions and has in excess of 26,000 hours flight time, with over 13,000 hours instruction given and 16,000 hours in ground instruction. He holds an ATP, Gold Seal CFI-A, CFI-I, CFI-ME, Aviation Mechanic and a Wright Brothers Master Pilot. In 1998 Mr. Alfonso was Flight Instructor of the year within the FAA Orlando FSDO region, in 1999 he was awarded Flight Instructor of the year within the FAA’s US Southern Region.  Additionally in 2004, he was named the FAA’s Florida Aviation Safety Counselor of the Year.  Diego also has a great web site covering many topics of his presentations: www.flyingcolorstrainingsolutions.com  

The Treasure Coast FAASTeam gratefully acknowledges the generous support of FlightSafety Academy for providing the use of a classroom and media equipment for our monthly Thursday evening FAASTeam seminars. 

If you are not currently an FAASafety.gov user, simply register your name and valid email address at the time of the event and your information will be processed through www.faasafety.gov.  You will then receive an email requesting you to go the web site and finish setting up your user account. With the new Quick WINGS process, you'll soon be earning even more valuable education points towards your next Flight Review.